Using fMRI data collected from people viewing film clips, MIT neuroscientists created a comprehensive map of the cerebral ...

If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the ... as vocally sophisticated as birds. This diagram compares the classic view of a bird brain as defined by German naturalist Ludwig ...

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study shows how these differences manifest themselves ...

researchers from Harvard University and Google have unveiled the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain ever created, originating from a tiny piece of cerebral cortex tissue. This ...

But even if such diagrams existed for the brain, they would be of limited ... A small world after all The cerebral cortex is the central hub for coordinating behaviour and cognition in the brain.

Scientists at the Salk Institute are unveiling a new brain-mapping neurotechnology ... subtypes of inhibitory neurons in the ...

These two hemispheres make up the cerebral cortex. This controls most of our senses, intelligence, personality, conscious thought and high-level functions, such as language and verbal memory.