Controversial and thought provoking, Michael Graziano's Intelligent Movement Machine is a short, but eloquent, argument for a fundamentally different view of the motor cortex. The resulting theory ...

Only then does the finger move. The motor cortex located on the left side of the brain controls movement on the right side of the body. The best view of the brain's motor cortex is from a brain ...

Beginning in the 1940s, Canadian brain surgeon Wilder Penfield mapped the brain's motor cortex—the area that controls the movement of your body's muscles. He did this by applying mild electric ...

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T he motor cortex is a part of the mammalian brain and is known to support the planning and control of voluntary body movements. Some past neuroscience studies, however, found that the motor ...