Crossword clues for neopallium
neopallium
The Collaborative International Dictionary
neocortex \neocortex\ n. The cortical part of the neencephalon; the most recently evolved part of the cerebral cortex of the brain of higher animals, and the site of most of the higher brain functions; called also neopallium.
Syn: neopallium.
neopallium \neopallium\ n. The neocortex.
Wiktionary
n. neocortex
WordNet
n. the cortical part of the neencephalon [syn: neocortex]
Usage examples of "neopallium".
Down through the cerebral cortex she dove, down through the neopallium, deep into the archipal-lium.
In the neopallium a greater variety of information is received and more complicated coordinations can be set up.
The neopallium was developed further in that group of reptiles which, about 100 million years ago or so, underwent some remarkable changes changing scales into hair, developing warm-bloodedness, and, in general, becoming mammals, the most complex and successful class of Vertebrata.
However, there is a large expansion in the size of the neopallium, which spreads out to cover the top half of the cerebral cortex.
The larger the neopallium, which is the center of a great variety of coordinations among stimuli and responses, the more complex the potentialities of behavior.
It is the enlarged neopallium, then, which makes mammals in general more intelligent than any other group of vertebrates and, indeed, more intelligent than any group of invertebrates.
Some mammals, as they increased in size, enlarged the area of the neopallium more than in proportion, so they increased in intelligence as well.
To enlarge the neopallium at that rate, however, meant that it would outgrow the skull.
With the larger and more recently developed mammals, therefore, the cerebral cortex, which by then had become all neopallium, must wrinkle.
They developed a little gray matter, the neopallium, to deal with the elusive and ambiguous information that smells provide.
After about a hundred million years, the neopallium evolved into the human cerebral cortex, without losing its preference for smell.
Down through the cerebral cortex she dove, down through the neopallium, deep into the archipallium.
On the same table there were the skulls of men, apes, fish and wild geese, also dissected, in order to shew the relation between neopallium and corpus striatum.