Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's ... A new study published today in the journal Neuron takes a big step toward proving that hypothesis. The paper's lead author is Yuriy ...

For the gene expression study, led by the Allen Institute’s Hongkui Zeng, researchers performed single-cell RNA sequencing on more than 20,000 cells, most of which were neurons, in the visual cortex ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons used ...

The research involved studying movement control in mice using a combination of optogenetics (controlling neural activity with ...

A study reveals that motor control in the brain is modular and adaptable. Using optogenetics and imaging in mice, researchers ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain ... of vocalizations. These seven neuron clusters are similar among birds that are "vocal learners"—songbirds, parrots ...

Furthermore, for the vast majority of neurons, the same type of movement (e.g. an index finger flexion) that is effective at triggering a neuron during ... cingulate cortex The role of the mirror ...

Figure 3: Visually selective neuron in the entorhinal cortex. Figure 4: Visually selective neuron in the hippocampus. Some of the neurons showed changes in firing rate in response to more than one ...

As an undergraduate, I worked with Dr. Jeffrey Macklis to investigate genetic controls that diversify projection neuron subtype identity within precise regions of the mammalian cortex. I then worked ...