Graphesthesia, also called graphagnosia, is the ability to recognize symbols when they’re traced on the skin. “Graph” means writing and “esthesia” means sensing. This ability is a measure of cortical ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Elche, has discovered that the ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

A team of researchers from Spain was curious to know if people with high psychopathic traits have anomalies in the brain's ...