Researchers found that the brain’s frontoparietal cortex doesn't simply work harder when decisions get difficult. Instead, it ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how ...

Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a ...

The brain has a remarkably flexible system for handling uncertainty and changing situations. Researchers found that the ...

Researchers theorize that further investigation into the stem cell niche—the microenvironment containing nearby cells, blood vessels, signaling molecules, and other structures—could create more robust ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how it's organized.

The cortex is also known as the gray matter of the brain, which contains processing centers for various functions, such as the somatosensory cortex. This is the area where sensory impressions from the ...

For decades, neuroscientists have thought about communication between the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia in a fairly ...

The brain organoids had characteristics of either the front or back of the developing cerebral neocortex rather than random regions.

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 ...

A University of Iowa-led research team has shown in detail how a region of the brain called the frontoparietal cortex manages ...