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 ...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a noninvasive magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex and motor pathways. Responses obtained from the target muscles through TMS can be evaluated ...

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 ...

Secondary visual cortex. The secondary visual cortex is also designated V2, V3, V4, V5, or Brodmann areas 18 and 19. It surrounds the primary visual cortex and receives information from it.

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.

Injury to the cerebral cortex region of the brain due to traumatic brain injury (TBI), surgical resection for cancer, epilepsy, and stroke can damage cognitive function, impair motor skills, and ...