cortical area
- noun
- /ˈkɔrtɪkəl ˈɛəriə/
- Specialized
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área cortical
- Each cortical area is responsible for different functions such as vision and hearing.
And during sleep spindles, that's when those distal dendrites are able to best learn from other cortical areas and from the hippocampus.
- And during sleep spindles, that's when those distal dendrites are able to best learn from other cortical areas and from the hippocampus.
Examples
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And during sleep spindles, that's when those distal dendrites are able to best learn from other cortical areas and from the hippocampus.
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And you could detect this waveform at the time that this motor cortical area is starting to tell your muscles to move.
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All cortical areas were defined to be of the same size.
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Although some differences exist in brain function between text reading and music reading, both types activate common cortical areas in the brain (Roux et al., 2007).
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In the human brain, cellular morphological measures have also been shown to associate with how densely connected a cortical area is, both in the healthy brain and in the context of brain disorders.
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Somata were arranged in rectangular cortical areas that differed in their surface density of neurons.
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Consistent with this concept, it was recently shown in nonhuman primates that an extensively studied cortical area carrying task-related signals during a motion discrimination task may actually be unnecessary for task performance (Katz et al., 2016).
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The sensory information is processed in specific cortical areas of the brain.
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Damage to a cortical area can impair a person's ability to recognize faces.
Synonyms
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A part of the brain's outer layer that has a specific job
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a distinct region of the cerebral cortex' is directly derivable from combining 'cortical' (relating to the cortex or outer layer) with 'area' (a region), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the compound. The noun-modifier composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern (e.g., Spanish 'área cortical'), making this term compositionally transparent despite its technical register.
Etymology
The noun cortical area names a small region on the brain's outer layer, the 'cortex'. Think of the brain as a map: cortical points to the outer layer and area means a place on that map, so a cortical area is a part of the cortex with a particular job.