If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

The study, published as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife and appearing today as a revised version, is described by the editors as ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a "meta-learning ... through computational modeling and brain stimulation, to also facilitate the ...