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The findings may also be important for understanding Alzheimer's disease because the entorhinal cortex is among the first brain regions affected by the condition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
"This indicates that the brain is trying to compensate for the loss of the main navigation system in the entorhinal cortex through alternative strategies," says Akan.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The team also found that the more the car sorting task was "offloaded" from the prefrontal cortex, the better participants performed a second task at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
"Experience remodels the brain to bypass that frontal bottleneck. The prefrontal cortex then stays free for whatever else you want to do, increasing your capacity," Riesenhuber explained.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Taylor’s instincts, honed during countless pageants when the one who claimed to be sweet was the one to put Nair in your shampoo, came crawling up her spine and into her cortex.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
"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
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
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
The analyses unveiled a nuanced architecture of mixed feedback and feedforward processing, spanning frontal and temporal cortices.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
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
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
If such a thing as telepathy existed, one of its glories would be the opportunity for each of us to read the books in the cerebral cortices of our loved ones.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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