Brain activity maps challenge traditional descriptions of prefrontal cortex

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...
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Prefrontal cortex reaches back into the brain to shape how other regions function

An image from the research shows axons from neurons in the ACA (red) and ORB (green) innervating the visual cortex, targeting discrete layers. Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT ...
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ChatGPT-Like AI Unveils 1,300 Regions in the Mouse Brain—Some Uncharted

At the turn of the 20th century, Korbinian Brodmann released one of the most consequential brain maps ever. By studying the humps, grooves, layers, and cells of the cortex—the outermost layer of the ...
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Figure 1. Information Processing Structures of the Brain’s Visual Cortex and Artificial Neural Networks (IMAGE)

In the actual brain’s visual cortex, neurons are connected broadly and smoothly around a central point, with connection strength varying gradually with distance (a, b). This spatial connectivity ...