While the motor cortex controls your body’s movements, the prefrontal cortex is responsible for decision-making and managing other parts of your brain. Occipital lobes.

Researchers have studied what part of the brain controls speech, and now we know much more. The cerebrum, more specifically, organs within the cerebrum such as the Broca's area, Wernicke's area ...

Nico Dosenbach says one day they noticed something odd in the primary motor cortex, an area that controls muscles. NICO DOSENBACH: It just didn't make sense if the textbook was right.

The motor cortex, the part of the brain involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements, may play a role in translating vocabulary from foreign languages into a person’s native ...

Body parts that humans have fine control over, such as our fingers and tongue, appear larger-than-life on the map, because they take up a disproportionate amount of the primary motor cortex.

That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is divided into sections assigned to each body part that can be controlled voluntarily (SN: 6/16/15).

Scientists’ understanding of the organization of the human motor cortex – the parts of the brain that allow us to plan, execute, and control movements – hasn’t changed much since the ...

Another brain region, called the premotor cortex, is known to have a role in planning movements, but the areas found by Gordon and Dosenbach's team are woven into the primary motor cortex itself.

The CON “is one of the ‘smartest’ areas of the brain, and we’re seeing it connect very strongly with these regions of primary motor cortex.” This alters our perception of the primary motor cortex's ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons ...

The ephrin-A5 pattern across the plane of the cortical plate suggested a potential role as a tangentially specific label. Expression was prominent in the primary somatosensory and motor areas in a ...

Most studies of brain functional networks have been based on fMRI scans of people at rest, but many parts of the brain or cortex are not fully active in the absence of external stimulation.