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Adjective
Some people consider the salience network to be the same as another network, called the cingulo-opercular network — the new Neuron paper, for example, refers to them interchangeably.—Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2013 In the left fronto-opercular/anterior-insular cortex, negative sounds failed to show the positive potential component at around 260 ms that was observed during positive and especially during neutral sounds.—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
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Adjective
borrowed from New Latin operculāris, from operculumoperculum + Latin -āris-ar
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