Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

The Interactive Brain from the Traumatic Brain Injury: The Journey Home guides you through the anatomy of the brain, how it works, and what different parts of the brain do.

Even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color, the brain has no problem recognizing objects in black-and-white images. A new study from MIT offers a possible ...