The human brain may be mapped at three different levels: the macroscopic, the mesoscopic and the microscopic levels 5. The macroscopic level is measured in centimetres, which is the scale of large ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five-year, $751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant ...

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

This story is a supplement to the feature "Why Migraines Strike" which was printed in the August 2008 issue of Scientific American. Whether headache is initiated by the brain stem, by the cortex or by ...

The human subcortex is one region of the brain often disregarded in cognitive neuroscience, more for technical than fundamental reasons. Indeed, the subcortex plays an essential role in decision ...

A cognitive neuroscience, through study, has addressed basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals ...