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The results raise the possibility that the individual building blocks of the human cortex are unusually powerful, which could help explain how humans developed exceptional cognitive abilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
When the dogs saw happy faces, activity increased in the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
OL is a tetracyclic triterpenoid isolated from Phellodendri cortex.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The researchers found that information from the newly developed car selective area in the temporal cortex could bypass the prefrontal cortex and travel directly to brain regions responsible for producing responses.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The part of the cortex above your face is the frontal lobe.
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
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
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
“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
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
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