The motor cortex is a part of the mammalian brain and is known to support the planning and control of voluntary body movements. Some past neuroscience studies, however, found that the motor cortex may ...

David A. Leopold is in the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethseda, Maryland 20814, USA. In the 1930s, the neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield ...

A brief, stimulus-triggered feedforward signal from mouse somatosensory to motor cortex predicted task success and conveyed ...

The role of neuron and dopamine loss in Parkinson's Disease (PD) has long been recognized by neuroscientists. However, how dopaminergic modulation affects brain regions involved in the control of ...

In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Grace Lindsay explores early theories for what motor cortex cells encode, where those theories went astray, and how today’s researchers approach the problem.

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.

Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a 'meta-learning' function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to movement planning, this ...

The NIH Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) has unveiled an atlas of cell types and an anatomical neuronal wiring diagram for ...

From the elephant gripping objects with its trunk to the newt folding leaves around its eggs with a hind foot, animals depend on dexterity for their survival and well-being. As animals practice a new ...

The brain’s motor cortex is as important as it sounds: it plans, controls, and executes voluntary muscle movements. Whether you’re playing catch, writing your name, or chewing food, it all points back ...

A new study has found high frequency propagating activity patterns in the motor cortex that contain details of upcoming movement -- information that could lead to the development of better ...