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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

But in the piriform cortex, a brain region associated with olfaction, they also found a neuron that increases firing in response to both the smell of licorice and the images of a piece of licorice ...

Pioneering studies suggested that motor information in the cortex is coded through the combined ... around onset of forelimb extension of each neuron and of all MI or VL cells over 44 trials.

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 ...

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 ...

where neuron-type-specific modules interact dynamically across different regions of the cortex. The brain re-networks and adapts For example, studying mouth movements of the mice, the researchers ...