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In a study published in 2025, Hwang and his colleagues found that the frontoparietal cortex develops an ongoing high-level summary of information arriving from elsewhere in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Scientists have long recognized the frontoparietal cortex as an important part of decision making.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
The researchers concentrated on the visual cortex and proposed four major functions for neural traveling waves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
The results revealed a striking advantage for neurons in the human cortex.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Any damage to the frontal cortex can change behavior and personality forever, as the case of Phineas Gage demonstrates.
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
Gallant showed a short video clip to human test subjects and then was able to successfully reconstruct images from that video by observing the brain activity in their visual cortexes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 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
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
The workspace is a network of cortical neurons in the front of the brain, with long-range projections to similar neurons distributed all over the neocortex in prefrontal, parietotemporal and cingulate associative cortices.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
Pleasure and pain are physically mingled in many of the same subcortical regions in your brain, with your insular and cingulate cortices both lighting up and triggering heart-pounding amygdala responses.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 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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