The frontal lobe controls motor skills & controls thinking, organizing & problem-solving. Understand its functions, disorders & other insights.

Motor cortex causally contributes to vocabulary translation following sensorimotor-enriched training. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2021; JN-RM-2249-20 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2249-20.2021 ...

Propagating spatiotemporal activity patterns across macaque motor cortex carry kinematic information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023; 120 (4) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212227120 ...

More information: Tyler Singer-Clark et al, Speech motor cortex enables BCI cursor control and click, Journal of Neural Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/add0e5.

Scientists found evidence of two interleaved systems, which may help explain the connection between what's going on in our bodies and what's going on in brain areas involved in thoughts and emotions.