WordNet
association cortex
n. cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information [syn: association area]
Usage examples of "association cortex".
So far as we know, the IMHV in the chick is a bit like the 'association cortex' in mammals - a region of the brain where inputs from many different sense systems converge and presumably become integrated.
Dew-son's team then surgically excised part of the so-called auditory association cortex from the left hemisphere of the neocortex in the temporal lobe.
Masses of irrelevant information stormed the sensory-motor cortex, smashing up through the thalamus and hypothalamus, howled triumphantly round the reverberatory pathways of the association cortex.