If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer, the main site of conscious perceptions, judgments and the planning and ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly ... They also serve as relay stations to the cerebral regions (green, and brown and orange ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

Mouse visual cortex wiring diagram and functional map offers insight into human brain complexity and cognition.

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

One of the areas that ballooned over the past few million years is the cerebral cortex, the wrinkly outer layer of the brain. It processes sensory information, coordinates our motion, and is in charge ...

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that ...

WASHINGTON: Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to ...