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Mind over gray matter: new map lays out brain's cerebral cortex

Reuters: Science - Posted: July 20th, 2016, 1:04pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neuroscientists acting as cartographers of the human mind have devised the most comprehensive map ever made of the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for higher cognitive functions such as abstract thought, language and memory.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=-AAHQGgQZ7c:D_XxvxLO058:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=-AAHQGgQZ7c:D_XxvxLO058:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=-AAHQGgQZ7c:D_XxvxLO058:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=-AAHQGgQZ7c:D_XxvxLO058:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=-AAHQGgQZ7c:D_XxvxLO058:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/-AAHQGgQZ7c" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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