In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a central role in triggering conscious perception.

The cerebral cortex, that region of the brain that allows expression through language, seems to be influenced by the child's surroundings. Spanish would be learned in the Andes or Greek in Athens ...

By analyzing the brain activity of epileptic patients, researchers have identified the key role of Heschl's gyrus, in the ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird ... They also serve as relay stations to the cerebral regions (green, and brown and orange, seen in the images below).

Using direct, intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study finds that the thalamus, a small region located deep within the brain, plays a pivotal role in conscious perception. According to the ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

In the normal mature brain, numerous neural circuits, mostly closed loop, connect a spectrum of motor and nonmotor regions of the cerebral cortex with the cerebellum. Development and consolidation ...

Neurons from discrete neocortical areas send axons near and far to numerous subcortical and cortical targets. The great diversity of neocortical neurons allows some neuron subtypes to specialize in ...

Researchers examined 68 regions of the cerebral cortex. Studies by other researchers have cited thinning and reduced volume of those regions in patients suffering from mental illnesses.

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the ...