For instance, from birth the auditory cortex will receive only sound or the visual cortex will receive only visual input.
When people imagined future events, there was an intricate "functional coupling" between parts of the prefrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex and the hippocampus.
Conclusion the activation of specific brain areas in craving state induced by heroin related cues were located in the left anterior cingulated cortex and left prefrontal cortex.
On average, smokers had a thinner medial orbito-frontal cortex than nonsmokers.
The anterior cingulate cortex was activated considerably more in the former than in the latter.
Gruber presented fMRI data that showed that the frontal cortex of marijuana users' brains activated differently.
What he didn't want to reveal was that his orbital cortex looks inactive.
These differences were noticeable in two regions: the amygdalas and the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC).
Researchers using functional brain imagery have confirmed that in such situations the blind person activates not only the parts of the cortex devoted to touch, But parts of the visual cortex as well.
Those with pain lacked this visual feedback system, and showed no activity in the sensory or motor cortex.
But when sensations were mapped on the sensory cortex of a woman, scientists came up with some interesting results.
Also, some regions of cerebral cortex that border visual and auditory cortices—the left fusiform gyrus, for example—expand territory in blind people to make use of the idle circuitry in visual cortex.
We've been called the visual primate, and the size of our visual cortex dwarfs the neural platform assigned to audition.
The frontal cortex acts as a master switching station that manages where the brain focuses its immediate attention.
Getting you to distrust your own cerebral cortex actually makes you dumber and easier to manipulate and control.
The frontal cortex may therefore be better suited to the task of retrieving memories that were encoded in the distant past.
They found that the cerebral cortex, the wrinkled area on the surface of the brain responsible for higher mental functions, grows in an uneven fashion.
Nofzinger and his colleagues decided to try the same concept on insomnia by designing a device that gently cools the frontal cortex during sleep.
The part of the brain you think with, the cortex, is very important, but it's certainly not the only part of the nervous system that determines our behavior.
Atrophied synaptic connections in the decisive regions of the prefrontal cortex resprouted, while the overgrown dendritic vines of the habit-prone sensorimotor striatum retreated.
The brains of autistic children have far more neurons in the prefrontal cortex than the brains of kids without autism, finds a new study that could advance research into the disorder.
"Located Below the cerebral hemispheres and Behind the upper medulla oblongata and pons, each of its two connected hemispheres has a core of white matter within a cortex of gray matter."
Researchers also discovered that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, an area responsible for stress response, was less active when the women were looking at the photos of their other halves.
Initially, genital touching fires up a region of the sensory cortex but signals quickly spread to the limbic system, an area linked to emotion, behaviour and long-term memory.
The researchers presented stimuli to one brain hemisphere at a time, which allowed them to challenge either the damaged or intact prefrontal cortex in the patients with brain damage.
