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 ...

At a time when investigating the functional anatomy of the motor cortex is all but out of fashion in favor of black-box decoders and brain-machine interfaces, it is pure joy to read about a decade ...

This suggested that the brain was divided into different sections, and that each section controlled the motor function (or movement) of a different part of the body. And since the pattern never ...

However, the precise organization of these motor control areas has remained an open question ... Their findings challenge the long-standing view that the cortex is primarily organized into vertical ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different ... types of neurons stacked in multiple layers across the neocortex, but without ...