When it comes to animals, most researchers in the field agree that three groups (and probably only three) display behaviour ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

We indeed found that aspects of the prefrontal cortex had a connectivity fingerprint ... they use magnetic resonance imaging to compare the organization of different brains. They scan the brains from ...

Findings of the analysis suggested that specific impulsive influences are driven by the different regions of the medial prefrontal cortex. Injuries in the dorsomedial section -- which sits towards ...

Other animals, such as mice for example ... By studying the brains of mice, they found the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) 'referees' neural pathways that take on distinct structures ...

and behaviors to achieve long-term goals—is what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Self-control is primarily rooted in the prefrontal cortex—the planning, problem-solving ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of ... and planning — have expanded too. The prefrontal cortex has a similar structure in both chimps and humans ...