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 ...

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a role in the regulation of brain states associated with wakefulness and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...