A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from ... within which are many other subdivisions. The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are ...

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

A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in ...

To map the brain during movie watching, the researchers leveraged a previously collected fMRI dataset from the Human ...

How does the human brain process and integrate information ... The study highlights the existence of a functional hierarchy in the human cerebral cortex, where posterior areas—those that first ...

The gold standard for brain mapping is still based on Brodmann’s map, developed in 1909, which divided the cerebral cortex into 50 different areas based on its cellular architecture. But this was ...

Scientists discover a brain pathway that helps suppress fear, offering new hope for anxiety and PTSD treatment.

The two most significantly schizophrenia-associated cell types had similar functions—selectively inhibiting and therefore shaping excitatory activity in the cerebral cortex, the human brain's ...

“The dendrites are central to understanding the brain because they are ... wrinkled outer section of the human central ...

The brain plays a leading role in addiction, just as it plays a role in all human behavior ... a cluster of nerve cells below the cerebral cortex, which responds quickly by releasing a flood ...

CEREBRAL ENTANGLEMENTS: How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives, by Allan J. Hamilton The human brain! It’s amazing! A master conductor of our emotional symphonies, a supercomputer of ...