cortex
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Together, these findings offer new insight into how the human cortex produces its remarkable variety of cell types.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the Cell study, researchers built a detailed map of metabolism in the developing human cortex.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
These cells produce large numbers of the neurons and support cells that make up the cerebral cortex, the brain region involved in thought, memory, and language.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
However, anatomical studies have shown that in humans, the projections reach the cortex long before those final connections are established.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Indeed, if you're looking at your brain from the outside, you might wonder if you're holding the cortex backwards.
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
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
McKee and other experts said one or two tangles can be found in the cortexes of otherwise healthy 50-year-olds.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2020
“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
In fact, neuroimaging studies show the brains of children who eat more processed snack foods are smaller in volume, particularly in the frontal cortices, than those of children who eat a more healthful diet.
From Salon ● May 28, 2024
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
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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