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 ...

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

Playing with these computerized blocks may result in using areas of your brain that are more efficient rather than continuing ...

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 ...

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 study addresses a fundamental question: How do these intricate connections form, and why do distinct brain regions exhibit such orderly distribution across the cortex? "The brain begins ...

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 ...

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 ...