Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

Language, empathy, attention - as different as these abilities may be, one brain region is involved in all these processes: The inferior parietal lobe (IPL). Yet until now it was unclear exactly what ...

The parietal lobe is located near the center of the brain, behind the frontal lobe, in front of the occipital lobe, and above the temporal lobe. The parietal lobe contains an area known as the primary ...

Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

Evidence suggests that in multiple sclerosis (MS), damage to the corticostriatothalamocortical circuit is critical in the development of fatigue. The goal of this case-control study at the National ...

Researchers from four academic neurosurgical centers in Japan found that the parietooccipital fissure, which divides the temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes of the brain, acts as an obstacle that ...

Unlike the visual system, in which images are mapped directly onto the retina and topographically projected to higher visual areas, the auditory system must compute sound location from differences in ...

Scientists report that a simple decision-making task does not involve the frontal lobes, where many of the higher aspects of human cognition, including self-awareness, are thought to originate.

Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human—but is there more to it? The brain's shape, as well as the shapes of its component parts (lobes) may also be important. The ...