If you want to understand an electronic device, you can simply review its circuit diagram ... across large swaths of brain tissue. A small world after all The cerebral cortex is the central ...

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 ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

For nearly a century, scientists have recognized that different regions of the brain’s cortex ... that affect motor function. Future studies could investigate whether similar modular principles apply ...

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 ...

A new interdisciplinary study by researchers from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Andrew and Erna ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different ... understanding how the brain refines motor control. The study was led by Keita ...

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 ...

A new study published in Human Brain Mapping has found that subtle motor difficulties in children, such as problems with coordination and involuntary movements, are linked to differences in the ...

One major aspect of most brain activity recording devices in use today and in clinical trials is that they are uni-directional. For example, they read activity in the motor cortex and use that ...

4. Playing with blocks leads to better brain efficiency and a thicker cerebral cortex A 1992 study by Haier and colleagues evaluated eight men before and after they spent four to eight weeks ...

brain activity occurs in the motor areas of the brain. Finally, after the word is spoken, neural activity in the auditory cortex occurs when the word is heard. These neural activity patterns in ...