Meta-learning of human motor adaptation via the dorsal premotor cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024; 121 (44) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2417543121 ...

Since the 1930s, the so-called homunculus map has shown how different parts of the brain's motor cortex may control movement to different parts of the body. But it may be missing an important network ...

Dr. Nico Dosenbach says one day they noticed something odd in the primary motor cortex, an area that controls muscles. NICO DOSENBACH: It just didn't make sense if the textbook was right.

Study: A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Image Credit: r.classen/Shutterstock.com Background The human motor cortex was initially described as a ...