NOUN
- that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head
How To Use parietal cortex In A Sentence
- That said, it is interesting to note that a recent autopsy examination of Einstein's preserved brain did uncover extra tissue in the parietal cortex, which mediates spatial cognition.
- Zapping the parietal cortex at the right moment with TMS can block processing downstream in the visual cortex.
- For example, there is a category of particular undecideds that happen in the section of this area of their brain called the parietal lobe, the parietal cortex where you gather evidence. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2008
- The nucleus accumbens is involved in motivation and reward, and the parietal cortex is important for sensory-motor function.
- The posterior parietal cortex then sorts out bodily movements corresponding to the observed actions.
- In the brain, stimulants stunt the growth of spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens and pyramidal cells in the parietal cortex.
- Both research teams found that low- and high-capacity subjects differed in levels of brain activity in the parietal cortex, a region of the brain known to be involved in the processing of visual and spatial information.
- Scientists had 10 volunteers watch either numerals or dots on a screen while a part of their brain known as the intraparietal cortex was scanned – it’s a region of the parietal lobe especially linked with numbers. I’m thinking of a number (of dots) | clusterflock
