In a landmark study published in Nature, researchers from the Allen Institute at the Baylor College of Medicine and Princeton ...

The cerebral cortex is the brain’s outer layer, the main site of conscious perceptions, judgments and the planning and execution of movements. “Scientists have been studying the structure and ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain ... They also serve as relay stations to the cerebral regions (green, and brown and orange, seen in the images below).