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As people grow older, the brain tends to place less emphasis on activity in the hippocampus and rely more on the frontal cortex.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The science of willpower is that there is part of the brain toward the front, toward the lateral prefrontal cortex, that is in charge of ordering around the rest of your brain.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

Adolescents already have a harder time than adults with planning ahead and controlling their impulses, because of the brain’s immature prefrontal cortex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Psychiatric disorders were associated with elevated PAD in the frontal and temporal lobes, while dementia was linked to higher PAD in the frontal and occipital cortex.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

When listening to music, sound vibrations enter the auditory cortex and are instantaneously broken down into elements of pitch, timbre, spatial relations, and tone duration.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

"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

Several studies have identified decreases in gray matter volume in key regions such as the frontal and temporal cortices and the hippocampus, which play major roles in memory and decision-making.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025

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

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

Do the cortices not enter into lamentatory conversation, taking the impress of exteriorities?

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson