neocortical

adjective

neo·cor·ti·cal ˌnē-ō-ˈkȯr-ti-kəl

: of or relating to the neocortex

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web And the neocortical column is the elementary processor for human beings to have coherent perception, attention, and memory. —

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. —

Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019 All available evidence implicates neocortical tissue in generating feelings. —

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. —

Siobhan O’connor, Time, 6 Sep. 2017

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