gray matter
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Neuroscientists typically ascribe consciousness and abstract thought to the cerebral cortex, which evolved later in human evolution and wraps around the brain's outer layer in folded gray matter.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
AFM attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord’s gray matter, which controls movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024
Could the MRI gray matter biomarker be used widely someday?
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024
The animals were, essentially, processing what just happened, allowing their tiny nuggets of gray matter to drift along and make sense of these curious humans’ images.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
It took my altitude-impaired gray matter a minute or two to comprehend that the object was a human body.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
