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Here, we performed paired global proteomic and phosphoproteomic profiling of 2D cortical neurons and 3D COs, and benchmarked both models against published human fetal brain, human adult frontal cortex, and mouse cortex reference datasets. Compared to mouse cerebral cortex, both 2D and 3D showed substantially higher proteomic similarity to human fetal brain. In contrast, phosphoproteomic profiles were poorly correlated between iPSC-derived models and adult human frontal cortex, and between human and mouse cortex, demonstrating that phosphorylation signaling is highly context- and developmental stage-dependent and not recapitulated by cross-species. 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