The temporal lobe is part of the cerebral cortex. It plays a role in memory, enables people to process sound and vision, and is crucial for recognizing objects and language. Dysfunction in the ...

Communicating via spoken language is a fundamental human capability that enables us to form connections with other people by sharing knowledge and emotions, working together and assessing our ...

What is the Function of the Neocortex? The neocortex is comprised of 4 regions based on the patterns of sulci (grooves) and gyri (ridges) in the brain: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 50 (December 13, 2016), pp. 14289-14293 (5 pages) We administered map-reading tasks in which participants ...

For the first time ever in a study of the living human brain as it responds to outside stimuli, an Israeli doctoral candidate recently completed a quantitative analysis of how neuronal avalanches ...

A new reports a novel mapping methodology adapted for stroke brains. Researchers combined connectome-lesion symptom mapping with traditional voxel-based cortical lesion symptom mapping to assess brain ...