New Map of the Brain Shows Terra Incognita

…On Wednesday, a team of neuroscientists released an extremely detailed map of terra incognita of the human brain — the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the brain’s outermost layer and is responsible for sensory perception, language, attention, tool use and abstract thinking. The new map divides the cortex into 180 distinct areas, or “parcels,” including 97 previously undiscovered ones.…