Much experimental evidence supports the idea that the neocortex is such a general-purpose learning machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Brainlike Computers | Impact Lab] Reference

Although the entire neocortex is fairly uniform, it is divided into dozens of areas that do different things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Brainlike Computers | Impact Lab] Reference

The neocortex is a thin sheet of cells, folded to form the convolutions that have become a visual synonym for the brain itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Brainlike Computers | Impact Lab] Reference

Unlike the hippocampus, the neocortex is a master at weaving the old with the new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleep Now, Remember Later] Reference

The neocortex, which is significantly developed only in humans, is the seat of reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elliott Wave International NewsWire] Reference

Mr. SHERWOOD: It's got a brain that has a neocortex, which is the most expanded part of the forebrain, which is shared by all mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Primitive Parts, A Highly Evolved Human Brain] Reference

Even online, the neocortex is the limit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference

Indeed, this method barely air-kisses the neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belleruth Naparstek: More Troops, More Rotations, More PTSD: Will Positive Psychology Save Our Soldiers?] Reference

They are modelled after our neocortex, not our limbic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Strong AI Soon?] Reference

Once again, our neocortex overrides our instinctual cravings.    From Wordnik.com.  [ideonexus.com » 2005 » March] Reference

The youngest part of our brain, the neocortex, makes us unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education For Sanity] Reference

You might think the neocortex runs the other two brains, but no.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eli Davidson: How To Tame Your Financial Fears] Reference

Smell is the only sense to communicate directly with the neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

Perhaps our need to cooperate drove the evolution of the neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Timer's Disease] Reference

Even if I barely game at all these days, I am a gamer at neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay - Boing Boing] Reference

We share the neocortex only with higher apes, ours being more advanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Reptiles to Humans: A Three Brain Odyssey] Reference

And remember that the NCC is only the most basic element of the neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be safe out there!] Reference

LIPTON (ph): So what we're advocating is that we listen to the neocortex (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2003] Reference

She wants him to masturbate in a MRI machine while she takes slices of his neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday afternoon, at the café...] Reference

As our neocortex comes into full use, we, too, will practice a kind of photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

But really, I am on the side of the neocortex, the higher-functioning, conscious brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thought War] Reference

That's where sensory information passes from the thalamus to the neocortex for processing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 3/13/07] Reference

Một lần nữa, chúng tôi sẽ ghi đè neocortex thèm instinctual của chúng tôi.    From Wordnik.com.  [ideonexus.com »2005» Tháng ba] Reference

But for the neocortex, the no-new-neurons theory lives -- and it's just gotten a major boost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

These studies have been restricted to the similarities of the brain, especially the neocortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN] Reference

On the other hand, the brain of the ape is very small, with very little neocortex development.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN] Reference

Still, until more studies confirm Rakic and Kornack, he'll keep a close eye on the neocortex debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Even prior to the mysterious appearance of the neocortex, our brains had strong floral characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

If the reptile brain equates with cold and the mammal brain with warmth, then the neocortex equates with light.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

The distinguishing brain feature in mammals is the neocortex, the most recently evolved of our brain structures.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others'] Reference

LeFever has postulated that the neocortex is an expanded memory bank, and it certainly possesses that capability.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

Among social animals, there is a direct correlation between the size of the neocortex and the size of the typical group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinian Virtues] Reference

BARISH (ph): At the same time as we should listen to out neocortex (ph), we should be aware that the animal part is there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2003] Reference

The neocortex is light-sensitive and can, itself, be lit up by higher forms of mental activity, such as meditation or chanting.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

The neocortex speaks this language, and if we can learn to speak it, why we may be able to manipulate the cortex through the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

We can trace a stimulus from the eye to the neocortex, and follow that stimulus through pathways that give rise to our perceptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph LeDoux: Why the "Right Brain" Idea is Wrong-Headed] Reference

Where Gould saw new nerve cells in the neocortex, Pasko Rakic and David Kornack see only glial cells, the "glue" that supports neurons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

This mnemonic requirement has driven the evolution of vampire bat brains, which possess the largest neocortex of all known bat species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinian Virtues] Reference