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… November 30, 2020 Research Findings Cortex over reflex: Study traces circuits where executive … in mice that neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) area of the prefrontal cortex, a region at the front of the brain associated with …

… in a hierarchy of regions along its surface, or cortex, ranging from “lower” areas that do basic parsing of … cells, may control the flow of information throughout the cortex. “When you look at prior studies you see examples of … the question of what does this look like all over the cortex.” Added co-first author Mikael Lundqvist of Stockholm …

… one crucial brain region called the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in converting vision … neurons in each of two regions of their brain: the visual cortex, which processes sight, and the PPC, which receives input from the visual cortex, but also input from many other sensory and motor …

… between the thalamus and the brain’s surface regions, or cortex, in a variety of frequency bands ranging from 4 to 100 … lab’s expertise on how neural rhythms coordinate the cortex to produce conscious brain function with the Brown … finding of a signature of very slow rhythms across the cortex offers a model for directly measuring when subjects …

… By tracking feedback during tasks, the anterior cingulate cortex notices when a new step has become necessary and signals the motor cortex to adjust Life is full of processes to learn and then … two, a pair of regions on the brain’s surface, or cortex, collaborated to update that understanding and change …

… By measuring thousands of neurons along the surface, or cortex, of the brain in animals as they reacted to … typically channeled through deeper layers of the cortex, while the forward flow of excitatory gamma carrying … between beta and gamma are happening all over the cortex,” said Earl Miller , Picower Professor of Neuroscience …

… of studying how neural circuits in the brain’s visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear ’s lab … into the experiments described in a new paper in Cerebral Cortex, Bear and his team expected to confirm that key … act specifically in neurons in layer 4 of the visual cortex to make the circuit connection changes, or …

… memory Brain applies rhythms to physical patches of the cortex to selectively control just the right neurons at the … shows that the brain creates distinct spaces in the cortex for each general rule and controls those patches with … information items can be scattered widely around the cortex, but the rule that’s applied to them is based on the …

… choosing (temporal control). In a mouse's primary visual cortex, astrocytes labeled blue also show green staining for … calcium levels. By doing this specifically in the motor cortex, Sur’s team will be able to investigate the influence … function is disrupted, neurons in the brain’s motor cortex struggle to execute and refine motion, a new study in …