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The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...
Although it’s too soon to use the new results in the clinic, the test provides advantages over previously reported ‘clocks’ — ...
How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...
This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...
While different parts of the brain process outside stimuli like sight and touch, the cerebral cortex puts these stimuli together to drive decision-making and problem-solving, among other functions.
Motor cortex articles from across Nature Portfolio The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible ...