Word: neocortexes
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...left ear to the crown, and then another to the forehead, exposed the skull. Next the surgeons sawed through the bone and lifted a big flap to expose the brain. Then, wielding an electric cautery, they spent one hour and 50 minutes cutting away the diseased hemisphere-from the neocortex, the control center for man's most civilized mental processes, down to the ancient part of the brain, where reflexive and instinctual functions are mediated. The surgeons put nothing in the space; cerebrospinal fluid would soon fill...
...brain differs from the animals' in having a huge neocortex, a thick new bark containing billions of nerve cells. Each half of the cortex is divided into four main lobes: frontal (behind the forehead), temporal (inside the temple), parietal (under the crown), and occipital (at the back of the head). Animals do not speak, write, or think abstractly, and presumably both halves of their brains are equally active. At birth, the human brain is little different from an animal's. A newborn infant who has suffered severe damage to the left side of the brain may have almost...
Recently the doctors removed only certain parts of restraining forebrains. With the neocortex cut out, the cats became utterly placid. Nothing would get them mad. Even when their tails were burned, they responded only with gentle, tolerant spitting. The peacemaking parts of the forebrain were in complete control...