So the question is, how does the brain do it," says Cold Spring Harbor ... a region of their brains called the orofacial motor cortex (OMC). They recorded neurons' activity over many weeks.

scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston began by using specialized microscopes to record the brain activity in a 1-cubic-millimeter portion of tissue in a lab mouse’s visual cortex ...

Another study compared gene regulation in the primary motor cortex of humans ... researchers have filled out the parts list for the mouse brain, they’ll be devoting even more attention to ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain’s ... restoring lost motor function. Cell class-specific orofacial motor maps in mouse neocortex.

Thanks to a mouse watching ... animal's visual cortex lit up as they processed the images flashing by. Next, scientists at the Allen Institute analyzed that small piece of brain tissue, using ...

Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse ... cortex, which could simulate the ...

For nearly a century, scientists have recognized that different regions of the brain’s cortex ... that affect motor function. Future studies could investigate whether similar modular principles apply ...