Speech is a unique human ability that is known to be supported by various motor and cognitive processes. When humans start ...

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

This valuable study characterises the activity of motor units from two of the three anatomical subdivisions ("heads") of the triceps muscle while mice walked on a treadmill at various speeds. Although ...

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

EPFL Scientists at EPFL, the University of Cambridge, and Kumamoto University, have identified previously unknown neural ...

According to the neuroscientist, people constantly perceive the intensity of their own touch as weaker than external stimuli.

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

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements.

Areas in the orbitofrontal cortex involved with obsessive-compulsive behaviors and in anger control also light up initially, though this extra activity may fade over time. In 2011, researchers ...

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.

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements ... providing a new framework for understanding how the brain refines ...

When the occipital lobes of the brain are completely affected by a stroke, it causes total vision loss. This is called “cortical blindness.” It means the vision loss was caused by damage to the cortex ...