gray matter

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Haier’s studies also demonstrated how Tetris can affect the plasticity of cortical gray matter, potentially enhancing a person’s memory capacity and promoting motor and cognitive development.

From New York Times

The new mothers had widespread gray matter volume increases, not decreases, in brain regions that are associated with empathy, social cognition, and the ability to multitask.

From Salon

And it slows in older people as their organs shrink and they lose gray matter in their brains.

From Science Magazine

The exact significance of white matter itself, what Burzynska says has long been regarded as the "ugly, neglected stepsister" of gray matter, is itself still being studied.

From Salon

These past studies of brain plasticity generally focused on gray matter, though, which contains the celebrated little gray cells, or neurons, that permit and create thoughts and memories.

From New York Times