Their paper, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that the involvement of the motor cortex in motor sequence execution depends on the extent to which a given task requires flexibility.

The cerebral cortex, also known as gray matter, is your brain’s outermost layer and is located above the cerebrum. Learn more about its vital functions.

The motor cortex executes responses based on sensory choices, but it is unknown whether it also impacts response selection. Here, Pape and Siegel show that motor cortex activity present before ...

The role of neuron and dopamine loss in Parkinson's Disease (PD) has long been recognized by neuroscientists.

The motor cortex, the part of the brain involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements, may play a role in translating vocabulary from foreign languages into a person’s native ...

The motor cortex is a brain region known to control the body’s voluntary movements. However, the team of neuroscientists have now shown that it can also help translating foreign language words into ...

Textbooks show the primary motor cortex as a continuous ribbon with sections devoted to specific muscle groups, from tongue to toe.

Scientists found evidence of two interleaved systems, which may help explain the connection between what's going on in our bodies and what's going on in brain areas involved in thoughts and emotions.

The instant you decide to move your foot the part of your brain's motor cortex responsible for sending commands to the foot goes into action. So what does this mean?

The new human brain map shows the location and function of hundreds of cell types. These cells can also be found in the motor context in mice and monkeys, according to NPR.

Neurons in the brain's motor cortex previously thought of as active mainly during hand and arm movements also light up during speech in a way that is similar to patterns of brain activity linked ...