The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how ...

The cortex is also known as the gray matter of the brain, which contains processing centers for various functions, such as the somatosensory cortex. This is the area where sensory impressions from the ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how it's organized.

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

The brain organoids had characteristics of either the front or back of the developing cerebral neocortex rather than random regions.

A decades-old picture of how the brain builds its most complex structure turned out to be wrong in a fundamental way: the cerebral cortex doesn't grow from one flexible stem cell population that ...