How to Use cerebral cortex in a Sentence

cerebral cortex

noun
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  • In 2014, a woman undergoing surgery for epilepsy had a tiny chunk of her cerebral cortex removed.
    — Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Blink, and a button deep in the cerebral cortex gets pushed.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Ideas are spilling madly from his cerebral cortex to the page.
    — Cydney Alexis, Slate Magazine, 6 Jan. 2017
  • They were not expected to be found in birds because of their small brains and the absence of a cerebral cortex.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Anjum Shaik, 10, said her favorite part of the brain display was learning about the cerebral cortex and how each lobe has its own role.
    — Priscella Vega, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • My trusty reporter’s notebook was back home, and my cerebral cortex was switched to airplane mode.
    — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Blast Shock Revealed: These two postage-stamp-size sections of the cerebral cortex were stained to highlight the protein marker of brain damage.
    — National Geographic, 9 June 2016
  • Karama et al show that childhood IQ is correlated with the thickness of the brain's cerebral cortex in old age.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2013
  • Biologists have understood for a long time that goals take shape in the brain’s cerebral cortex.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In the Cleveland Clinic study, the 12 patients all experienced strokes in the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • 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.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2013
  • Folds in the cerebral cortex introduce a third dimension there too.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Studies show that play improves memory and stimulates the growth of the cerebral cortex.
    — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Cytokines produce inflammation, which is perceived as pain by the cerebral cortex of the brain.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 June 2020
  • Neurons that make connections between the brain and the body are organized to create a virtual map in the cerebral cortex.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • While this study focused on visual perception, Gepshtein points out that neural waves are a property of many parts of the cerebral cortex.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2022
  • For now, rather than attempting to target anything deep in the brain, implants will only target things near the surface of the cerebral cortex, the outermost layer at the front of the brain.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2020
  • What sticks in my cerebral cortex isn’t a sensation of pain, or any regrets at the end of life, but the sickening sense that the animal at the other end of those gangrenous teeth has no soul.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
  • The myelin sheath is crucial for optimal transmission, but people begin to lose myelin in the cerebral cortex in their senior years.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
  • An organ called the olfactory bulb shunts the chemical messages straight to the part of the brain that deals with stored feelings and memories, bypassing the cerebral cortex, the main part of the brain.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
  • Gray matter of the brain is the cerebral cortex, which controls sensations and functions such as speech, thinking and memory.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
  • This network is a critical hub in the brain that links parts of the cerebral cortex to deeper and older structures involved in memory and emotion.
    — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
  • The first is a presymptomatic phase of 15 to 25 years during which amyloid builds up in the cerebral cortex, the brain’s outermost layer, in the absence of cognitive symptoms.
    — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
  • During these episodes, three areas of the cerebral cortex light up, ones that deal with visual memory and perception.
    — Longreads, 10 June 2019
  • Consciousness has long been thought to be localized in the cerebral cortex of smart primates—namely, chimps, bonobos and us humans.
    — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Combing massages all of the acupoints of the head, which regulates excitement and inhibition in of the cerebral cortex.
    — Zoe Weiner, Allure, 27 July 2018
  • Growing up poor risks the development of a smaller cerebral cortex.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • And because stingrays don’t even have a cerebral cortex, this strongly suggested that nobody needs an enormous brain to learn how to perform basic math.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • The occipital lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex, the thick outer layer of gray matter covering our noggins’ hemispheres.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • In March 2022, a surgeon inserted four of these tiny sensors into Bennett’s cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2023

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