Another ancient part of the brain called the amygdala feeds us our emotional responses and the much newer medial prefrontal cortex help us ... Read next BI Tech Memo An icon in the shape of ...

The best view of the brain's motor cortex is from a brain that has been sliced in half. The image to the left displays a brain that has been sliced lengthwise, dividing the front and back halves ...

Move within the Brain’s Cells: “Cortex in Metallic Pastels” is a first-place illustration by Greg Dunn that communicates the layered structure of the cerebral cortex, resembling a forest.

THIS is what consciousness looks like – but these aren’t brain scans. Neuroscientist-turned-artist Greg Dunn created the art, aided by artist and physicist Brian Edwards, largely by hand, and ...

“However, when the volunteers took LSD, many additional brain areas – not just the visual cortex – contributed to visual processing.” Images of the brain under a hallucinogenic state ...

The ability to store phantom images in our brain in order to make visual comparisons is impaired by damage to the prefrontal cortex, but intact regions of the PFC pick up the slack in less than a ...

An area in the visual cortex, on the inferior surface of the brain, is thought to identify graphemes. It is located in the left hemisphere, like the language areas with which it communicates. Credit ...

An excitable prefrontal cortex made a person more likely to visualise strong images, while the opposite was true in the visual cortex. Brain excitability is the likelihood that neurons will fire, and ...