When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting the nature of the threat and orchestrating a behavioral response. Other brain areas also respond to the threat, and the ...

Much of the previous research on human brain uniqueness has focused on the prefrontal cortex, a group of areas at the front of our brain linked to complex thought and decision making. We indeed ...

the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually entails not just stopping use of a substance but also discovering or ...

Wiehler and his colleagues instead hypothesized that something was accumulating in the brain, so they looked for evidence of this in a region that helps orchestrate cognitive control: the left lateral ...

Recent advances in neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience continue to support the foundational understanding that these medications primarily influence the prefrontal cortex, the brain's ...

The fMRI scanner recorded activity in several areas of the brain including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is associated with decision making. Professor Crespi said: “We can discern ...

A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience00304-5/fulltext) has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural ...