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 ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the ...

During brain development ... neurons are found outside the motor cortex. Why is this? To answer this question, the neuroscientists focused on the mouse. "The technologies currently available ...

The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled millions of cells to chart a cellular ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

Brain-wide cell-type comparisons ... neocortex Gene regulatory programs in the primary motor cortex of human, macaque, marmoset and mouse were investigated with single-cell multiomics assays ...

Your brain also needs to figure out if you need ... recorded neural activity in both the striatum and the motor cortex of a mouse as it reached for and then pulled a joystick to get a water ...

A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in ...

The federally funded work, which upends assumptions about the speed of learning and the role of the sensory cortex ... at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the brain ...