Thus, the term primary motor cortex (M1) is unjustified, as it may be no more primary than the premotor or the supplementary motor areas. Instead, the motor cortex is a two-dimensional map ...

Your brain then decides whether or not to carry out what it has read. 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 ...

The primary motor cortex sits in the back of the frontal lobes, near the temple. The dominant paradigm states that the motor cortex is simplistic. Planning, cognition, and conscious initiation of ...

Whenever you perform an action, the primary motor cortex, the part of your brain responsible for initiating the message, sends a copy of the command — an "efference copy" to many areas of your ...

We addressed these issues by simultaneously recording from arrays of electrodes chronically implanted in the primary motor (MI) cortex and ventrolateral (VL) thalamus in rats trained in a forelimb ...

Scientists have identified previously unknown neural modules in the brain that control movement and adapt during skill learning. Their findings challenge long-held ideas about how the brain organizes ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...