The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

The Executive Brain is a ... that the frontal lobes or parts of them operate as a whole. We have doubts about this approach. For one thing, this was a dominant view for all higher cognitive ...

Humans have an estimated hundred billion neurons, or brain cells, each with about a thousand connections to other cells. One of the great challenges of modern neuroscience is to map out all the ...