Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Finger tapping is one of the most reliable and widely used tasks for evoking activity in the motor cortex area of the brain, both for the brain–computer interface (BCI) and for evaluating the progress ...

Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...

Understanding others’ beliefs—especially false ones—is key to human communication and begins to develop between ages three ...

An approximation model for the computation of the electric fields produced in the brain tissues by magnetic stimulation is presented. Results are given in terms of induced electric field and current ...

Review Article Published: May 2007 Binocular depth perception and the cerebral cortex Andrew J. Parker Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 379–391 (2007) Cite this article ...

Article Published: August 1998 Dopaminergic regulation of cerebral cortical microcirculation Leonid S. Krimer, E. Christopher Muly III, Graham V. Williams & Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic Nature ...