What is love, or rather, 'where' is love? A fascinating new study has located where exactly love happens in our brains. More ...

Cerebral Cortex Damage. Damage to any region of the cerebral cortex is typically caused by tumors, autoimmune diseases, bleeding in your brain, or a stroke.Symptoms of possible damage depend on ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

We can't see what other people are thinking, so we have to infer it and that's very crucial for our communication as humans. That's how we create shared meaning and that's how we choose our words to ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

Understanding others’ beliefs—especially false ones—is key to human communication and begins to develop between ages three ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

The cerebral cortex of your brain is the outermost layer. ... Secondary visual cortex. The secondary visual cortex is also designated V2, V3, V4, V5, or Brodmann areas 18 and 19.

New research reveals how synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex can strengthen during sleep, offering insight into how ...

“We have a survival brain,” says Grant, “and without knowing it, when we see things that feel urgent, we pause and gird ...