How to Use neocortex in a Sentence

neocortex

noun
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  • The neocortex is the newest part of the brain to evolve.
    — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The muscle to build is to stay in the neocortex, which is the conscious thinking brain.
    — Dede Henley, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Rhythm dances with our neocortex to make way for a breath of relaxation.
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Our brains are triple the size of more primitive primates, thanks to our large neocortex.
    — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2015
  • The neocortex—the part of the brain that evolved most recently—is critical to this ability.
    — Theodor Schaarschmidt, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • In humans, the neocortex is larger than in apes, giving us the skills and intelligence that are unique to us.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • For us, the key brain regions are in the neocortex, particularly part of the parietal lobes of the humans—also the parietal lobes of the monkeys.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 June 2022
  • Groups of neurons in the neocortex encode these memories of objects and past events.
    — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The hippocampus is then cleared to gather more the next day, while the neocortex decides what to transfer to long-term memory and what to discard.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • What Helen Mayberg has been doing is at the tertiary level [the neocortex, or center of thought].
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2012
  • In 2010, the researchers mapped out the vascular network covering the surface of the neocortex in rats and mice, the outer layer of the cerebral cortex.
    — Emily Singer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2013
  • Some longer-term memories are stored outside the hippocampus, in the neocortex.
    — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The team identified memory cells in the neocortex — the brain’s outer layers, which house long-term memories — within just a day of the shock.
    — Jessica McDonald, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The neocortex might play a key role in more complex recognition exercises where the face is turned or the lighting is altered.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2016
  • Later, this data is sometimes transferred to the neocortex — the thin tissue that forms the brain’s outer layer — for long-term storage.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2020
  • The neocortex is the part of the brain that processes higher functions such as cognition and perception.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • An example of this filtering is evident in the structure of the neocortex.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Grant, who was not involved in the project, explained that the structure of the sample was probably representative of the brain's entire neocortex.
    — NBC News, 15 June 2021
  • In humans, the telencephalon is the largest division of the brain and contains a region called the neocortex, which plays a key role in animal behavior and cognition.
    — Ashley Maynard, The Conversation, 1 Sep. 2022
  • As evolution continued, higher mammals came on the scene with a new brain component called the neocortex.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • That’s the data providing support for the neocortex findings.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2018
  • However, memories that stretch into one's past are often housed in other parts of the brain outside the hippocampus, in the neocortex — which spares them from the disease's initial blows.
    — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Much of the growth was in the neocortex, a sublime region of the cerebrum involved in higher cognition and sensory integration.
    — Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
  • But their lack of a neocortex—the area of the mammalian brain where working memory, planning, and problem solving happen—has long puzzled scientists.
    — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 24 Sep. 2020
  • How often a primate species lies is correlated with the size of its neocortex, the part of the brain where higher order functions like spatial reasoning occur.
    — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The neocortex is also essential to learning, attention, and sight in humans.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This hinted that the neocortex and DVR evolved independently.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The neocortex, a layer covering the brain, emerged in mammals two hundred million years ago and is organized as a hierarchy of modules.
    — Ray Kurzweil, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Dunbar discovered a remarkably stable ratio across all species of primates between the size of their neocortex and their social group: the larger the brain, the larger the community.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 June 2021
  • 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.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023

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