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 ...

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 ...

The six anatomical layers of the mammalian brain cortex show distinct patterns of electrical activity which are consistent throughout the entire cortex and across several animal species, including ...

The brain you have at midnight is not the same brain you have at noon. Research that mapped exactly which neurons fire up during different times of the day found that, despite having the same cells ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one common pattern for handling information. Each region of the cortex contains ...

To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

Illustration of multi-focus scanning with DEEPscope, imaging a neuron deep within the brain. Researchers at Cornell have unveiled an advanced imaging technology capable of unprecedented deep and ...

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed the first dual-color optoelectronic neural probe. Unlike previous, single-color probes, which often control brain ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Researchers have discovered a mechanism that creates memories while reducing metabolic cost, even during sleep. This efficient memory occurs in a part of the brain that is crucial for learning and ...