John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens) is searching for one of the biological keys to human behavior ... in the insular cortex that are found ...

Functional images were acquired with an EPI with the following parameters ... We did not find alterations in the rsFC of the insular cortex, which might be due to the lack of active visual stimulation ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Basic Science, Yonsei University, and the Max Planck Institute have developed a ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

OpenAI unveiled an updated version of its AI system GPT-4o that can generate more realistic images, the result of a year-long effort with human trainers. GPT-4o replaces DALL-E 3 as the default ...

Perhaps most devastating to your dietary willpower, sleep deprivation blunts activity in your brain’s insular cortex—the region responsible for integrating physical sensations with emotional ...

Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse brain. In a new study, Stanford Medicine ...

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