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The entorhinal cortex helps retrieve previously stored memories, while the amygdala contributes to emotional memory, including how emotional experiences are processed and remembered.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

He had received an implant containing 96 electrodes arranged in an array within his visual cortex.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The team used a deep learning system to develop electrical stimulation patterns for electrodes temporarily implanted in the visual cortex, the region at the back of the brain responsible for processing visual information.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Unlike mammals, birds do not have a cerebral cortex organized into layers.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

The iron damages the left hemisphere more than the right, the front of the frontal cortex more than the back, the underside more than the top.

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

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

Sensory cortices on the other hand play an important role in how we perceive our environment and make appropriate movements, and how our brains determine what to focus on and what to ignore.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

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

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 this works, she adds, one should expect to see reduced connected activity between the auditory and motor cortices.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2021

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