cortex
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In the Cell study, researchers built a detailed map of metabolism in the developing human cortex.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Together, these findings offer new insight into how the human cortex produces its remarkable variety of cell types.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The findings show how the frontoparietal cortex helps organize information and coordinate responses involving both the brain and the body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Using experiments that combined computational modeling with brain imaging, the researchers found that the frontoparietal cortex does not communicate with the rest of the brain in a fixed way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Their brain injuries usually follow surgery to remove a tumor from deep inside the frontal 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
The hypothesis that a drug could protect other patients’ entorhinal cortexes requires more research.
From New York Times ● May 15, 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
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
Several studies have identified decreases in gray matter volume in key regions such as the frontal and temporal cortices and the hippocampus, which play major roles in memory and decision-making.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
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
When activity in sensory cortices exceeds a threshold, a global ignition event is triggered across these cortical areas, whereby information is sent to the entire workspace.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 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
According to neuroscientists, what makes a creative thinker is the high activity in the association cortices sections of the brain—responsible for making new connections and for “eureka” moments.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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