New research suggests that premature babies and even full-term newborns experience pain very differently than adults do.

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

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

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 ...

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 ...