Throughout the brain's cortex, neurons are arranged in six distinctive layers, which can be readily seen with a microscope. A team of MIT neuroscientists has now found that these layers also show ...

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 ...

The six anatomical layers of the mammalian brain cortex show distinct patterns of electrical activity which are consistent throughout the entire cortex and across several animal species, including ...

The brain you have at midnight is not the same brain you have at noon. Research that mapped exactly which neurons fire up during different times of the day found that, despite having the same cells ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one common pattern for handling information. Each region of the cortex contains ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

Illustration of multi-focus scanning with DEEPscope, imaging a neuron deep within the brain. Researchers at Cornell have unveiled an advanced imaging technology capable of unprecedented deep and ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed the first dual-color optoelectronic neural probe. Unlike previous, single-color probes, which often control brain ...

Researchers have discovered a mechanism that creates memories while reducing metabolic cost, even during sleep. This efficient memory occurs in a part of the brain that is crucial for learning and ...