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 ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

However, whether our brain uses tree-structured representations is still ... Neural activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) was recorded while the monkeys performed this task.

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

The parts of the brain needed to remember words have been identified. Those areas are affected by a common form of epilepsy, ...

Now, however, researchers have identified a previously undiscovered brain network that might be behind this mind-body connection, according to new research published today (April 19) in Nature. The ...

Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted primarily to processing visual information (Van Essen et al., 1992; Van Essen ...

One brain region critical for decision making is the prefrontal cortex, which sits just behind ... Langdon and Engel propose a sort of trees instead of the forest approach. To make sense of ...