Over the past decade or so, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced computational techniques that can tackle ...

People have been saying this forever, but if government scientists have their way, it might fall out of fashion. That’s ...

Alongside his study into the brains of mice and monkeys, the 58-year-old scientist told the magazine that his personal work is focused on the neocortex, the Udon-noodle-looking exterior part of ...

Alcohol enhances the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA leading to impaired judgement. With frontal lobes ...

You’ll be quite disappointed to learn that they have absolutely nothing to do with this article other than a couple of similarities they share when compared to your neocortex. If you were to ...

They range from conspiracies about government agency response to accusations that The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The more white matter (see my blog The Truth About How Your Brain Gets Smarter)—or some might even say the more intelligent the neocortex—the greater potential a person has to lie. Bella ...

Inhibitory circuits in the neocortex used to be so simple. Although it's true that the neocortex has a mystifying assortment of inhibitory interneurons 1, most of the fast synaptic connections ...

Unlike other regions of the brain–such as the neocortex, which deals with the executive functions of the brain and learns quickly—the basal ganglia takes much longer to absorb new experiences ...

The neocortex, the seat of our higher cognitive abilities, has expanded in size during the evolution of human. Our group is aiming to answer the long-lasting question: How our brains got bigger?

The medial temporal lobe, which includes the hippocampus, appears to play a role in the creation of semantic memories, they are ultimately thought to be stored throughout the neocortex—and other ...