The cortex is divided into regions that handle different functions: sensory areas process information from our environment, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons ...

This is a movie showing a dendritic segment of a layer 2/3 pyramidal neuron expressing GCaMP6s (blue) and CyRFP1 (red) during spontaneous calcium dynamics in the motor cortex of a lightly ...

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 ...

The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Using advanced ...