Researchers have found that people scoring high for psychopathy have structural changes in parts of their brains related to ...

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 ...

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

Your cerebral cortex, the wrinkled outer layer of the brain, gets thinner as you age. It's especially noticeable in the frontal lobe, which processes memory, emotions, impulse control, problem ...

For nearly a century, scientists have recognized that different regions of the brain’s cortex are responsible for controlling various body movements. This understanding dates back to the 1930s, when ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex ...

Meta-learning of human motor adaptation via the dorsal premotor cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024; 121 (44) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2417543121 ...

Well, besides the motor cortex, according to the study other parts of the brain involved with learning new actions and understanding language also get revved up when we read action verbs.

Brain Matters Origins of Parkinson’s may lie in the gut. Researchers hope to prove it. If the hypothesis that misfolded proteins start in the gut and travel to the brain is proved, it could lead ...