Some interesting facts about the cerebral cortex: It has a surface area of roughly 2,500 square centimeters. It’s often called gray matter due to its gray color, and the more gray matter you ...

A new study identified the areas of the brain ... motor cortex does not correlate with voluntary movement. In addition, the study shows that “while M1 [primary motor cortex] may code for limb ...

In the case of hammer, the motor cortex was the brain area activated to code the physical interaction. "To the brain, a key part of the meaning of hammer is how you hold it, and it is the sensory ...

Li then silenced neurons on either side of the premotor cortex-like part of the mouse brain, known as the anterior lateral motor cortex ... have to study the neural code at the level of defined ...

This meant Dosenbach's brain had to plan his movements before carrying them out, and Gordon says that revealed something surprising. GORDON: We found that these regions in motor cortex were more ...

The findings go beyond models of the motor cortex that haven’t changed much within the last century, suggesting that the body-mind connection could be enmeshed in the very fabric of the brain ...

During World War II, cryptographers cracked Germany's Enigma code by exploiting known ... from about 100 neurons in each monkey's motor cortex—a brain region that controls movement.

The books show a model of the brain in which the motor cortex is solely controlling movement. But scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that previously ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different ... understanding how the brain refines motor control. The study was led by Keita ...

For nearly a century, scientists have recognized that different regions of the brain’s cortex ... that affect motor function. Future studies could investigate whether similar modular principles apply ...

[PAUSE] What just happened? Well, you were able to move your foot thanks to the motor cortex--a strip of tissue running from ear to ear across the surface of the brain that is responsible for ...