Brenda Laurel

I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.

American Designer

Daniel Levitin

There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

American Scientist

Arca

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Venezuelan Musician

Sherwin B. Nuland

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Stephen LaBerge

Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

American Psychologist

Michael Dirda

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.

American Critic

Mel Robbins

The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.

American Journalist

Robert Sapolsky

What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.

Robin Marantz Henig

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

Writer

Wim Hof

Dutch Celebrity

Used in biology and medicine to discuss human or animal bodies.

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Highly specific and used in scientific or medical contexts.

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'Cortex' describes the outer layer, not to be confused with the core or inner parts.

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Refers to a specific part of plant anatomy, below the skin-like epidermis.

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In botany, 'cortex' often doesn't refer to a part of the plant we typically eat.

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In plants, the cortex is involved in transporting nutrients.

Transportation Role

 roll up your sleeve a bit, So what I'm going to do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm going to record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm? Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex

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 especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices. As with any other workout, disciplined, structured practice in playing music strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities. The most obvious difference between listening to music and playing it

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 and a highly developed hippocampus and cerebral cortex. It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory

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 in cross-language tests, it also showed that the effort and attention needed to switch between languages triggered more activity in, and potentially strengthened, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This is the part of the brain that plays a large role

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 The cortex still has some algorithmic tricks that we don't yet know how to match in machines. So the question is, how far are we from being able to match those tricks? A couple of years ago, we did a survey of some of the world's leading A.I. experts,

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 And yet, this is a myth unsupported by scientific evidence. So how did this misleading idea come about, and what does it get wrong? It's true that the brain has a right and a left side. This is most apparent with the outer layer, or the cortex.

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 starts to get processed in the retina it gets processed in the cortex by the time it actually arrives even at the visual cortex most of the data that was available in the natural world has been thrown out so what the brain is doing

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 about other planets in our solar system and how our world came to be I value that sort of planetary cortex that that nASA has allowed us to put in place and so for the cup of coffee the cup of coffee per year per taxpayer

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 the deepest of which are known as slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement. EEG machines monitoring people during these stages have shown electrical impulses moving between the brainstem, hippocampus, thalamus, and cortex,

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 and color through Callie's eyes fast movement trumps everything as she stalks the flies her eyes send signals to the brains visual cortex which analyzes what's changed between