Perhaps our most defining characteristic as a species, the six-layered human cortex, hosts billions of neural connections that bestow Homo sapiens with higher-order thinking. But how does this ...

Throughout the brain's cortex, neurons are arranged in six distinctive layers, which can be readily seen with a microscope. A team of MIT neuroscientists has now found that these layers also show ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

A new approach to fMRI scanning offers a three-dimensional look at brain activation. fMRI is already a 3D technique, of course, but in the case of the cerebral cortex - which is what the great ...

Mice, unlike cats and dogs, can move their whiskers to map out their surroundings. For the first time, researchers reconstructed the 'whisker map' a mouse creates of its surroundings. While rodents ...

Researchers from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), the University of Magdeburg, and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen have found ...

An intense international effort to improve the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying the human brain has culminated in an ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner that records up to ...

A new study uses novel single-cell profiling techniques to reveal how plants add new cell layers that help them resist climate stressors like drought or flooding. The research focuses on corn—a ...