cortex

The science of willpower is that there is part of the brain toward the front, toward the lateral prefrontal cortex, that is in charge of ordering around the rest of your brain.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

Adolescents already have a harder time than adults with planning ahead and controlling their impulses, because of the brain’s immature prefrontal cortex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The change began in the posterior cortex and then moved forward, pointing to a large-scale process that may prepare the brain metabolically for REM sleep.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Lipids containing BFAs were also present among neutral lipids stored inside droplets in the renal cortex.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

On top and in front is the cortex.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

"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

Prefrontal cortexes, responsible for impulse control, don’t finish developing until the mid-20s.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

But Rego, who has practiced psychiatry for three decades, takes the unique approach of examining with specificity the impact of 21st century life on our magnificent, misunderstood prefrontal cortexes.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2021

Gallant showed a short video clip to human test subjects and then was able to successfully reconstruct images from that video by observing the brain activity in their visual cortexes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

“In fact, it is one of the largest lateral prefrontal cortexes I’ve ever seen. Yet the orbitofrontal cortex is remarkably small. What do these two facts indicate?”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Sensory cortices on the other hand play an important role in how we perceive our environment and make appropriate movements, and how our brains determine what to focus on and what to ignore.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

The workspace is a network of cortical neurons in the front of the brain, with long-range projections to similar neurons distributed all over the neocortex in prefrontal, parietotemporal and cingulate associative cortices.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

Pleasure and pain are physically mingled in many of the same subcortical regions in your brain, with your insular and cingulate cortices both lighting up and triggering heart-pounding amygdala responses.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 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

Do the cortices not enter into lamentatory conversation, taking the impress of exteriorities?

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson