Word: cortexes
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...have debated whether or not the new growth affects advanced functions such as memory. Now researchers Elizabeth Gould and Charles Gross, in an article in Friday's edition of the journal Science, report that testing in monkeys shows the growth of new neurons that attached themselves to the cerebral cortex ? the epicenter of advanced brain activity...
Within explicit, or declarative, memory, on the other hand, there are specific subsystems that handle shapes, textures, sounds, faces, names--even distinct systems to remember nouns vs. verbs. All of these different types of memory are ultimately stored in the brain's cortex, within its deeply furrowed outer layer--a component of the brain dauntingly more complex than comparable parts in lesser species. Experts in brain imaging are only beginning to understand what goes where, and how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole...
...gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex...
From the olfactory bulb, information flows to the olfactory cortex and then to other parts of the brain where the information is processed, Buck said...
Buck plans to follow the pathway of sensory information further into the brain. "We've looked so far at the nose and the bulb," she said. "We want to go into the cortex...