cortex

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The brain’s conflict detector, the anterior cingulate cortex, activates in uncertainty.

From MarketWatch

The number of apical progenitor cells, which are essential for building the cerebral cortex, was significantly lower.

From Science Daily

Birds demonstrate that conscious processing can occur without a cerebral cortex and that very different brain structures can arrive at similar functional outcomes.

From Science Daily

But we also have the insula, which processes risk, including the risk of social ostracization—to which the parietal cortex makes us extremely sensitive.

From The Wall Street Journal

Human voices play a central role in social communication, and a significant portion of the auditory cortex is devoted to interpreting them.

From Science Daily