The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of your brain’s surface, located on top of the cerebrum ... consciousness, and sensory functions. The cerebral cortex is made up of 14 to 16 billion ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany), VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (USA) succeed in reconstructing ...

Third, these regions were spatially selective in relation to the target location ... dorsolateral cortex, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate showed strong modulation by sensory information ...

The paper, which appears in “Nature”, reports the discovery of a ‘thermal cortex’ located in a posterior region of the ... and investigating sensory perception is a good way of trying to do that,” ...

The precise locations that correspond to the vagina, cervix and female nipples on the brain’s sensory cortex have been mapped for the first time, proving that vaginal stimulation activates ...

The study also found this rewiring involves fibers that supply the primary input to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for sensory perception, motor control and cognition. These findings ...