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 ...

Researchers from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), the University of Magdeburg, and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen have found ...

A new approach to fMRI scanning offers a three-dimensional look at brain activation. fMRI is already a 3D technique, of course, but in the case of the cerebral cortex - which is what the great ...