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These short, curved fibers connect nearby regions of the cerebral cortex, allowing them to exchange information.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Scientists have known for years that neurons in the thalamus send long projections toward the cortex.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The result offers researchers a possible way to study how disturbances early in brain development could influence the formation of the cortex.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"We already knew that these projections influence how the cortex develops," Bhaduri said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Of the higher brain functions, some—reading, writing, speaking—seem to be localized in particular places in the cerebral cortex.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
"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
“Surely to God, we can use our giant cortexes and figure out a way to live with them.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
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
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
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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