How to Use cortex in a Sentence

cortex

noun

• The optic nerve is similar to a telephone cable that connects the eye to the occipital cortex at the very back of the brain, where what is viewed is then processed and interpreted.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
• Strikingly, the insular cortex, a part of the brain that connects deeper brain regions with the cortex, had consistent and unique patterns for both positive and negative emotions, but not for mixed ones.
  — Anthony Gianni Vaccaro, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
• But there are lots of creatures that don't have a cortex at all.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 June 2022
• How does that not activate a kind of delight at the back of the cortex?
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022
• For one thing, brain scans have shown that the front part of their brains, the cortex, is a lot larger than their normal peers.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2019
• Instead, there’s talk of brain regions like the cortex.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 8 July 2019
• The treatment opens up the cuticle, allowing the amino acids to enter the cortex of the hair.
  — Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• Penfield and others went on to map the whole surface of the brain’s motor cortex.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The chips have electrodes that record neurons in the motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls hand movement.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 13 May 2021
• But the connection between CN and cortex is not a one-way street.
  — Sliman Bensmaia, Scientific American, 16 May 2022
• It’s delivered to the blood vessel that rests on the surface of the brain’s motor cortex.
  — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 30 July 2024
• Two thirds of the clusters detected were traveling waves moving from the rear to the front of the cortex.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 June 2018
• The weight loss occurs due to a portion of your adrenal glands called your cortex, the Mayo Clinic explains.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Nov. 2018
• Hundreds of these cortex organoids grew in cultures for 10 months.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• The brain’s motor cortex then generates the body’s response—a shout of surprise, a jerk of a hand.
  — Erika Hayasaki, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2017
• When the first rat pressed one of two levers, either right or left, an electrode in its cortex picked up a signal.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
• These things then go straight into your cortex in this intense way.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• These were stuck into four sections of their brains: three regions of the cortex and the thalamus.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 11 May 2021
• The somatosensory cortex enables the brain to sense what the body touches.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• But the human brain has about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone, not to mention billions more glial cells.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The motor cortex of the brain sends rapid signals to your muscles to prepare them for quick and forceful movements.
  — Arash Javanbakht, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• There were multiple lesions, mostly in the frontal cortex of his brain.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• The idea of a region of motor cortex that roughly mirrored the head-to-toe alignment of the human body could no longer prevail.
  — Nico U.f. Dosenbach, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
• From ape to human, the brain grows about fourfold, but most of that increase occurs in the cortex, not in more ancient structures.
  — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• Next, again in those who had disagreed, at the orbitofrontal cortex came online at the 320 millisecond mark.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• First the surgeon removes a small portion of the skull; next, the flexible ECoG array is gently placed across the surface of the cortex.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2022
• The idea that should run freon through your cortex is that Jeffrey Epstein likely helped plant some thoughts there.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
• However, most of the phosphatidylserine used back then was derived from the bovine cortex.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• But the librarian is blind to the content of these sequences, which is constructed in the cortex.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2020
• The team found the processing of speech occurred in the left auditory cortex.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024