Compared to other animal species, humans can plan and execute highly sophisticated motor tasks, including the ability to write complex characters using their hands. While many past studies have tried ...

Scientists found evidence of two interleaved systems, which may help explain the connection between what's going on in our bodies and what's going... New data shows that an old model of the brain's ...

Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a 'meta-learning' function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Elon Musk, billionaire and founder of Neuralink, claims the company can restore full body functionality for individuals with ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published Nov. 25 in Neuron, finds in mice that via specific circuits, ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said that his brain-computer interface company Neuralink can possibly restore full body ...

Due to altered sensory afferents and motor efferents, a complete T9/T10 spinal cord transection in rats results in a motorically silenced region of cortex below bregma. Thus, in addition to paralytic ...