The CON “is one of the ‘smartest’ areas of the brain, and we’re seeing it connect very strongly with these regions of primary motor cortex.” This alters our perception of the primary motor cortex's ...

A Map of the Motor Cortex Tap the index finger of your right hand. It's a simple maneuver, yet carrying it out requires a vastly complicated series of actions. First, the image of the words on the ...

A Map of the Motor Cortex. Tap the index finger of your right hand. It's a simple maneuver, yet carrying it out requires a vastly complicated series of actions. First, the image o ...

If you are a ballet dancer or gymnast, a watch-maker or surgeon, your brain connections in the motor system will differ depending on your skills for fine movements in different parts of your body.

Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

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

Study: A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Image Credit: r.classen/Shutterstock.com Background The human motor cortex was initially described as a ...

Previous work on mammalian motor cortex has focused on the role of this region in movement generation. Here the authors demonstrate that activity of vibrissa motor cortex neurons decreases during ...

The new view of primary motor cortex may help explain how the brain solves a difficult problem, Strick says. "Even simple movements require nuanced control of all organ systems," he says.