The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity ...

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.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

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 prefrontal cortex, located in the front part of the brain, is often referred to as ... this approach hones in on a small group of trees. How the Model Works This idea came from observing ...

Those living on blocks with more trees showed a boost in heart and ... showed decreased activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain tied to depressive rumination—and ...

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 ...