The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

The contribution of the parietal cortex to episodic memory is a fascinating scientific puzzle: although parietal lesions do not normally yield severe episodic-memory deficits, parietal activations are ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting consequence of packing an unusually large brain into a too-small skull. But ...

The MRI scans of nine participants in the study, all children, adolescents and young adults, show how varied the tertiary sulci (color patches) are among individuals. The patches are identified sulci ...