The cerebral cortex is a sheet of neural tissue that is outermost to the cerebrum of the mammalian brain. It plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and ...

The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of gray matter that encases the cerebrum's white matter underneath. The cerebellum and cerebrum both have a left and right hemisphere.

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas ...

For more than 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same function are ...

The Functions of the Cerebrum. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter. Enter your email.

Researchers have studied what part of the brain controls speech, and now we know much more. The cerebrum, more specifically, organs within the cerebrum such as the Broca's area, Wernicke's area ...