The primary motor cortex sits in the back of the frontal lobes, near the temple. The dominant paradigm states that the motor cortex is simplistic. Planning, cognition, and conscious initiation of ...

At a time when investigating the functional anatomy of the motor cortex is all but out of fashion in favor of black-box decoders and brain-machine ... Thus, the term primary motor cortex (M1 ...

Whether you find it enjoyable, uncomfortable or somewhere in between, you can't tickle yourself. But why? The answer has to ...

Discover how neuromuscular retraining techniques reprogram movement patterns to resolve chronic pain, offering longer-lasting ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

This suggested that the brain was divided into different sections, and that each section controlled the motor function (or movement) of a different part of the body. And since the pattern never ...

Their findings challenge long-held ideas about how the brain organizes movement. For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

Several systems provide further evidence for this 'distributed coding' in brain function 2,3 ... chronically implanted in the primary motor (MI) cortex and ventrolateral (VL) thalamus in rats ...

Now, using a novel system developed at Janelia, researchers led by the Dudman Lab found that a part of the basal ganglia called the striatum is not involved in action selection as previously thought.