The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain ... The dark and light blue regions seen on the model constitute the brainstem, which sit toward the back of a bird's ...

A study has found that the cortex acts like a "memory machine", encoding new experiences and predicting the near future, ...

Fear is hardwired into our brains from the moment we’re born. Loud noises and creepy-crawly insects just naturally give us [… ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

However, with repeated exposure and no actual danger, the mice learned to remain calm instead of escaping, providing researchers with a model to study the suppression ... input from visual areas in ...

Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser extent in the midbrain and cerebral cortex (Terwel et al ... to influence AD-related pathology in another ...

Researchers have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. The study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related ...