How to Use cortex in a Sentence

cortex

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Doctors were able to remove 95% of the tumor during the surgery, but the other 5% was too close to Ayres’s motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement.
    Allyson Reedy, The Know, 26 Dec. 2019
  • At the same time, the brain dampens the ability of our mid- and frontal cortex to use logic, criticize or think clearly.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • That light activated a tiny piece of cortex, spurring neurons there to fire.
    New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • In the insight case, the brain scans showed that in the second before the answer was reached, there was a burst of alpha waves in the right occipital cortex, which processes vision.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 July 2024

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