The motor cortex, the part of the brain involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements, may play a role in translating vocabulary from foreign languages into a person’s native ...

Hundreds of neuroscientists from across the globe, including researchers from the Tolias Lab at Baylor College of Medicine, have built a “parts list” of the motor cortex, mapping in exquisite detail ...

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 ...

The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is ...

UNLESS there is action in the brain, a man has no thoughts and no consciousness, no awareness. This is a surmise of science, and there is as yet no good scientific reason to doubt it. Action, when it ...

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 on in brain areas involved in thoughts and emotions.

Your nerves transmit messages within the brain, as well as among the brain, spinal cord, and the body. In order to do this, they use a combination of electrical and chemical signaling. Motor neurons ...

It has to plan a trajectory to the cup, control dozens of muscles, make adjustments based on feedback from the eyes and fingers, and maintain its focus on the goal: a tasty jolt of caffeine. And it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Progressive degeneration of the motor cortex correlated with more aggressive clinical presentations among ...