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 ...

Compared to other animal species, humans can plan and execute highly sophisticated motor tasks, including the ability to ...

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 ...

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

A global collaboration of over 150 researchers has created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, mapping the complete structure and function of a grain-sized piece of mouse ...

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Visual ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

One major aspect of most brain activity recording devices in use today and in clinical trials is that they are uni-directional. For example, they read activity in the motor cortex and use that ...

Neuroimaging studies show that auditory and motor systems in the brain are often co-activated ... some ideas concerning the role of the premotor cortex in integration of higher order features ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...