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Yet, the average individual has few opportunities to experience such neocortical quieting.
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Lindsey Laughlin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2024
Dense networks of neocortical neurons in this area connect in a looped configuration; output signals feedback into input neurons, allowing the posterior hot zone to influence its own behavior.
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Lindsey Laughlin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2024
And the neocortical column is the elementary processor for human beings to have coherent perception, attention, and memory.
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David Kushner, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
These patients respond to threats but do not report awareness of the threat stimulus or conscious feelings of fear; self-report of conscious feelings in such patients correlates with neocortical activity.
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Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
All available evidence implicates neocortical tissue in generating feelings.
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Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
Of the 1,200 neocortical genes that Panksepp looked at in one rat experiment, about one third of them showed significant changes in activity after just a half-hour of play.
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Siobhan O’Connor, Time, 6 Sep. 2017
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Word History
First Known Use
1909, in the meaning defined above
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“Neocortical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neocortical. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
Medical Definition
neocortical
adjective
neo·cor·ti·cal
-ˈkȯrt-i-kəl
: of or relating to the neocortex
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