Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

researchers from Harvard University and Google have unveiled the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain ever created, originating from a tiny piece of cerebral cortex tissue. This ...

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 ...

Wayne State University researchers are using photoacoustic imaging to observe brain activity and, in the process, discovering ...

4. Playing with blocks leads to better brain efficiency and a thicker cerebral cortex A 1992 study by Haier and colleagues ...

But even if such diagrams existed for the brain ... A small world after all The cerebral cortex is the central hub for coordinating behaviour and cognition in the brain. As the head of the ...

The cortex refers to the outermost layer of the cerebral hemispheres or cerebrum. The cerebral cortex in humans is folded into gyri and consists of six horizontal layers of neurons, with distinct ...

BEIJING -- Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic relationship between the topological structure of human brain cortex ...

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 ...