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 ...

Nico Dosenbach says one day they noticed something odd in the primary motor cortex, an area that controls muscles. NICO DOSENBACH: It just didn't make sense if the textbook was right.

The PFC consists of the front part of the frontal lobe in the cerebral cortex. It’s located right behind the eyes and is the part of the brain responsible for executive functions.. Executive functions ...

A Map of the Motor Cortex. Tap the index finger of your right hand. It's a simple maneuver, yet carrying it out requires a vastly complicated series of actions.

A new paper could prompt a rethink of a basic tenet of neuroscience. It is widely believed that the motor cortex, a region of the cerebral cortex, is responsible for producing movements, by sending ...

Not only does practice make perfect, it also makes for more efficient generation of neuronal activity in the brain's primary motor cortex, say researchers. New findings have shown that practice ...

The motor cortex does not represent a continuous map of the body. The human brain’s motor cortex is often regarded as a linear map with discrete sections, each controlling different parts of the ...

The motor cortex makes up several regions of the neocortex involved in the planning, control and execution of voluntary movements. There are several neuroanatomically distinct regions of the ...

Future studies could investigate whether similar modular principles apply to other areas of the cortex involved in cognition and sensory processing. Reference: Tamura K, Bech P, Mizuno H, Veaute L, ...

The motor cortex homunculus is getting a makeover. New research has essentially redrawn the motor cortex and constitutes one of the most substantial shifts in our topographical knowledge of a sensory ...

Textbooks show the primary motor cortex as a continuous ribbon with sections devoted to specific muscle groups, from tongue to toe. That view dates back to the 1930s, ...

That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is divided into sections assigned to each body part that can be controlled voluntarily (SN: 6/16/15).