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The results revealed a striking advantage for neurons in the human cortex.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The findings may also be important for understanding Alzheimer's disease because the entorhinal cortex is among the first brain regions affected by the condition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
"This indicates that the brain is trying to compensate for the loss of the main navigation system in the entorhinal cortex through alternative strategies," says Akan.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
According to Riesenhuber, transferring a well-learned skill into the temporal cortex frees the prefrontal cortex to focus on new challenges, allowing existing knowledge to serve as the foundation for future learning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Although neurologists are still exploring how the auditory cortex functions, they now believe that music processing is actually much more complex then initially imagined, and involves many more parts of the brain than previously thought.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
"Both the frontal and posterior temporal cortexes disrupt semantic integration, which we see happen in individuals with various aphasias," Murphy said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
I think the thing now is the way we are stressed by putting these excessive demands on our very powerful prefrontal cortexes, which I think is more of what makes us human than language.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2021
A select number of Americans, it should be noted, don’t even own a flat-screen, tablet or other instrument of destruction delivering all this rottery into our cerebral cortexes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
McKee and other experts said one or two tangles can be found in the cortexes of otherwise healthy 50-year-olds.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2020
Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Research has shown that the premotor and posterior parietal cortices, along with the temporoparietal junction, are active in the brain when we are locating or thinking about ourselves.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
The analyses unveiled a nuanced architecture of mixed feedback and feedforward processing, spanning frontal and temporal cortices.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
In one 2022 study, Fani, Harnett and their colleagues reported that among 81 Black women who had experienced trauma, those who reported experiencing more racial discrimination showed proportionally thinner gray matter in the cingulate cortices.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
If this works, she adds, one should expect to see reduced connected activity between the auditory and motor cortices.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2021
If such a thing as telepathy existed, one of its glories would be the opportunity for each of us to read the books in the cerebral cortices of our loved ones.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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