cortex

University of Iowa researchers have provided new insight into the brain's information hub, known as the frontoparietal cortex.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Using those results, the researchers developed a computational model that separated signals coming from different areas of the brain and revealed how the frontoparietal cortex brought that information together.

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

By then, Phineas's actual brain was long gone, but Dr. Harlow knew enough gross anatomy to calculate that the iron had passed through the very front of the left frontal cortex.

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

But Rego, who has practiced psychiatry for three decades, takes the unique approach of examining with specificity the impact of 21st century life on our magnificent, misunderstood prefrontal cortexes.

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

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

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