How to Use cortex in a Sentence

cortex

noun

• But there are lots of creatures that don't have a cortex at all.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 June 2022
• Part of your brain called the motor cortex tells your body how to move.
  — Steven Lautzenheiser, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
• Claude does not have a past, emotions, a frontal cortex, eyes or ears or pores or dreams.
  — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 16 July 2026
• These things then go straight into your cortex in this intense way.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• There had been a few claims at the time that some parts of the left frontal cortex are that structure.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
• How does that not activate a kind of delight at the back of the cortex?
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022
• The cells in the embryo’s cortex region end up in the adult cortex.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Wired News, 11 May 2025
• Hundreds of these cortex organoids grew in cultures for 10 months.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• Its implant uses tiny threads that enter the brain's cortex.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
• Penfield and others went on to map the whole surface of the brain’s motor cortex.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• When the first rat pressed one of two levers, either right or left, an electrode in its cortex picked up a signal.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
• For one thing, brain scans have shown that the front part of their brains, the cortex, is a lot larger than their normal peers.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2019
• Stephan’s sleep signature took a few seconds to travel from the front of the cortex to the back.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
• That light activated a tiny piece of cortex, spurring neurons there to fire.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• There were multiple lesions, mostly in the frontal cortex of his brain.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• The cortex can’t regrow and continues to shrink throughout life.
  — Patrick Martin, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2024
• But the connection between CN and cortex is not a one-way street.
  — Sliman Bensmaia, Scientific American, 16 May 2022
• It’s delivered to the blood vessel that rests on the surface of the brain’s motor cortex.
  — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 16 July 2024
• Her brain imaging work shows that the same areas of the motor cortex help control muscles used in both speech and dance.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025
• The brain’s motor cortex then generates the body’s response—a shout of surprise, a jerk of a hand.
  — Erika Hayasaki, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2017
• While our frontal cortex wants to think about where the lions may be tomorrow night, our amygdalas are in overdrive.
  — National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2020
• The chips have electrodes that record neurons in the motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls hand movement.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 13 May 2021
• However, most of the phosphatidylserine used back then was derived from the bovine cortex.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• Burkhart's implant was in his brain's motor cortex, in a region that controls hand movements.
  — Chad Bouton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2021
• The somatosensory cortex enables the brain to sense what the body touches.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• These areas wake up the thalamus, which projects the instructions to the cortex.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
• Two thirds of the clusters detected were traveling waves moving from the rear to the front of the cortex.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 June 2018
• The treatment opens up the cuticle, allowing the amino acids to enter the cortex of the hair.
  — Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• The team will try to organize the neurons in the organoid to resemble the human cortex.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
• The entorhinal cortex, by the way, is one of the first areas of the brain to get hit by Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025