A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human ...

The cortex is also known as the gray matter of the brain, which contains processing centers for various functions, such as the somatosensory cortex. This is the area where sensory impressions from the ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Researchers have developed a new approach for describing the shape of the cerebral cortex, and provide evidence that cortices across mammalian species resemble a universal, fractal pattern.

Summary: Researchers tracked brain activity patterns in participants before and after they watched multiple episodes of a ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Neuroscientists believe that rowing your own gears helps work out the brain's prefrontal cortex.