The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Visual ...

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 ...

Compared to other animal species, humans can plan and execute highly sophisticated motor tasks, including the ability to ...

At a time when investigating the functional anatomy of the motor cortex is all but out of fashion in favor of black-box decoders and brain-machine interfaces, it is pure joy to read about a decade ...

Such an ability is always needed for adapting to our environment. This learning takes place in the primary motor cortex – a region of the brain responsible for planning and executing voluntary ...