And mapping 3D space onto a 2D plane in the brain seems to explain why our nervous system is cross-wired: Counterintuitive as it may seem, directing nerve fibers across the midline is the ...

To study this, we simultaneously recorded single neurons in MFC and MTL while human subjects alternated between making memory and categorization-based decisions. In our population analysis, we ...

This interactive 3D brain visualizes where 10,000 words are represented across 60,000 ... Interactive Brain Map Reveals Word Representation Across 60,000 Regions Of Cortex. ByAmy Sterling.

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It’s called the cross-crawl, and it’s for real. Neuroscientists have long known that cross-body movements help the left and right hemispheres of your brain to connect and coordinate.

Generally, when we use tools our brain doesn’t alter its biological representation of a hand. So to use a hammer, for example, we simply grip the tool tightly with our hand.

Figure 1 Relative representation of numerical quantity in the brain Although the actual number of items differs, the brain exhibits similar activity patterns when focusing on an extra-small (XS ...