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 ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

macaque and human brain samples taken from the cortex. The human wiring diagram, or ‘connectome’, had 2.5 times more interneurons — a class of cells that dampen neural activity and control ...