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 ...

Certain brain-computer interface (BCI) methods use intrinsic signals from the motor cortex to control neuroprosthetic devices. The organization of the motor pathways in those populations likely to use ...

The prefrontal cortex (PFC), in particular, is instrumental in motor actions (Mihara et al., 2008), suggesting that monitoring PFC activation in postural control tasks may provide valuable insights, ...

How the cortex generates movement to achieve different tasks remains poorly understood. Here the authors show that the cortex serializes motor control by first performing task-specific ...

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

Have you ever wondered why a drumbeat makes your foot tap before you even realize it? It’s not magic or mystical prediction; ...

A biphasic structural plasticity rule interacts with homeostatic synaptic scaling to maintain firing rate homeostasis in neural networks.

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 ...

Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a rare disease that causes slowly worsening muscle weakness, mainly in your hands, arms, and legs. It affects your body's motor nerves, which control your muscles.

Consumer Reports tells you how to protect your car from rodents and deter squirrels, mice, and other rodents from chewing through the wires in your vehicle.

Finger tapping is one of the most reliable and widely used tasks for evoking activity in the motor cortex area of the brain, both for the brain–computer interface (BCI) and for evaluating the progress ...