posterior

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Scientists have long proposed, including Sur's colleague Earl K. Miller at MIT, that the prefrontal cortex can guide the activity of more posterior areas of the brain.

From Science Daily

"Because this posterior cortical zone activated in dreaming largely overlaps with that identified in waking, the TPO junctions are considered a 'hot zone' for the neural correlates of consciousness," the authors write.

From Salon

“I’ve been lucky to live an awesome life, but that was without a doubt the hardest thing I had to go through,” Mahon said of the torn posterior cruciate ligament.

From Los Angeles Times

A woman at the bar alleged he made sexual comments and “touched her posterior.”

From Seattle Times

The Kraken can pretty much eliminate the Predators as a distant pain in their posterior roughly a week and a half from now.

From Seattle Times