The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...
What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.
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Scientists may have found why humans gained consciousness
Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...
Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...
A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to ...
Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...
New research shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t simply broadcast generic commands to sensory regions—it sends finely tailored signals that shape how the brain processes vision depending on ...
Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...
On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller will propose that thought and consciousness emerge from the fast and flexible organization of the cortex produced by the analog ...
Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...
What if a single innovation could save industries millions of dollars, slash carbon emissions, and redefine what we thought was possible in energy efficiency? Enter ABB’s new 56.2 MW brushless ...
Miraculously, the number of manual transmissions in America has gone up in recent years, with younger enthusiasts pledging to keep the act of rowing gears alive. Still, the stick shift remains an ...
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