Your brain then decides whether or not to carry out what it has read. 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 ...

Instead, the motor cortex is a two-dimensional map representing statistics of natural movements, which Graziano refers to as an 'action map'. These natural movements are quantified through field ...

From this information, he was able to map the motor cortex, the very part of the brain you can map in this feature's activity.

The neocortical primary somatosensory area (S1) consists of a map ... motor and sensory areas of the developing rodent neocortex. Figure 3: The VB complex, the main somatosensory relay to the ...

Future studies could investigate whether similar modular principles apply to other areas of the cortex involved in cognition and sensory processing. Reference: Tamura K, Bech P, Mizuno H, Veaute L, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different ... used electrical stimulation to map how different cortical regions correspond ...

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