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  2. Cerebral cortex - Wikipedia

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    The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, [1] is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.It is the largest site of neural integration in the central nervous system, [2] and plays a key role in attention, perception, awareness, thought, memory, language, and consciousness.

  3. Cortex (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    The senses of vision, audition, and touch are served by the primary visual cortex, the primary auditory cortex, and primary somatosensory cortex. The cerebellar cortex is the thin gray surface layer of the cerebellum , consisting of an outer molecular layer or stratum moleculare , a single layer of Purkinje cells (the ganglionic layer), and an ...

  4. Topographic map (neuroanatomy) - Wikipedia

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    The primary visual cortex (V1, Brodmann's area 17) is the first cortical area to receive visual input. The stria of Gennari – a set of heavily myelinated, horizontally projecting axons within the termination zone of lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) input to V1 – provides an anatomical marker particular to V1.

  5. Brodmann area - Wikipedia

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    In a number of cases, brain areas are organized into topographic maps, where adjoining bits of the cortex correspond to adjoining parts of the body, or of some more abstract entity. A simple example of this type of correspondence is the primary motor cortex, a strip of tissue running along the anterior edge of the central sulcus. Motor areas ...

  6. Development of the cerebral cortex - Wikipedia

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    The cortical plate is the final plate formed in corticogenesis. It includes cortical layers two through six. [1] The subplate is located beneath the cortical plate. It is named for both its location relative to the cortical plate and for the time frame in which it is created.

  7. Cortex - Wikipedia

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    Cortex (anatomy), the outermost layer of an organ Cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the vertebrate cerebrum, part of which is the forebrain. Motor cortex, the regions of the cerebral cortex involved in voluntary motor functions

  8. Cortical map - Wikipedia

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    Cortical maps are collections (areas) of minicolumns in the brain cortex that have been identified as performing a specific information processing function (texture maps, color maps, contour maps, etc.).

  9. Insular cortex - Wikipedia

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    The insular cortex is divided by the central sulcus of the insula, into two parts: the anterior insula and the posterior insula in which more than a dozen field areas have been identified. The cortical area overlying the insula toward the lateral surface of the brain is the operculum (meaning lid). The opercula are formed from parts of the ...