The “secret” is making sure it is your neocortex, and not your primitive brain, that is guiding the decision process. Although Dr. Friedland was pointing at a diagram of the brain when he made ...

“Perhaps they can be exploited to alter disorders of higher brain regions.” The study also adds to a growing body of evidence that the function of the cortex is influenced by more primitive regions of ...

and that this area controls primitive brain function and instinctive behaviour. In fact neither is true, the researchers argue in the latest issue of the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

The Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project has built the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date. Today, scientists published the scientific findings (see ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional ... to date to systematically unify brain structure and function within a single individual ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A comprehensive wiring diagram and functional map of a mouse brain's visual cortex, the largest to date, has been created from a cubic millimeter of tissue. This ...