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

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

Two papers published in June 2021 used a two-photon microscope or one-photon miniature microscope to interrogate the motor cortex in behaving macaque monkeys. The imaging was performed over ...

Barrel cortex is organized into cylindrical columns of neurons whose topographical arrangement mirrors that of the whisker follicles. Studying the barrel cortex has provided insight into cortical ...