What is "neocortical"

Usage examples of "neocortical".

R-complex, or of a failure of some neocortical site whose function is to repress or override the R-complex.

It is, however, by no means clear that the neocortical subdivisions are actually functional units.

Chief among the neocortical abstractions are the human symbolic languages, particularly reading and writing and mathematics.

The kind of learning that human youngsters experience during their long childhood seems almost exclusively a neocortical function.

Some students of human evolution believe that part of the selection pressure behind this enormous burst in brain evolution was in the motor cortex and not at first in the neocortical regions responsible for cognitive processes.

Because it is a reptile, of course, that offers the fruit of the knowledge of good and-evil-abstract and moral neocortical functions-to Adam and Eve.

With the large-scale development of the neocortex in higher mammals and primates, some neocortical involvement in the dream state developed-a symbolic language is, after all, still a language.

But I mentioned that the important symbolic content of dreams showed significant neocortical involvement, although the frequently reported impairments in reading, writing, arithmetic and verbal recall suffered in dreams were striking.

In addition to the symbolic content of dreams, other aspects of dream imagery point to a neocortical presence in the dream process.

Lesions in the monkey brain of the neocortical areas responsible for speech in humans fail to impair their instinctual vocalizations.

It was distinct from everything else but just as much a part of him, conditionally equal, the problem located in whatever neocortical region nurtures the intuition, that contrapuntal faculty his mathematics relied on.

Here your hippocampus responded with an identical theta rhythm while the neocortical EEG flattened.

These include: (1) significant anomalies throughout the neocortical regions and topical convolutionary conduits, (2) structural anomalies in the vascular and neural networks of the infundibulum, the pyramidal tracts, and the hippocampus, (3) pineal insufficiency, and (4) reticular imbalance of the pons and attendant cerebellar pathways.

Voronin, L L Long-term potentiation at neocortical level, in Matthies, H-J (ed.