Definition of "cortices" []

• A plural of cortex. (noun)

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• "Important recent research by Marcus Raichle and his collaborators indicates a default, monitoring mode of brain activity, plausibly interpreted as including representations of one's current hedonic state, in the ventromedial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices, that is turned down by attention-demanding tasks, even by ones involving introspection into one's current affective state (Gusnard et al. 2001, Gusnard and Raichle 2004,"
• "Research shows that when most of us fall asleep, the brain network that involves attention to the outside world (the working memory network consisting primarily of the lateral frontal and parietal cortices) deactivates and our default brain network (medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices) takes over."
• "The stories in Shine are written to human scale to such an extent that they skirt mundane fiction (not at all a bad thing, when some SF/F authors are resorting to lengthy, graphic torture scenes to make a dent in readers 'cortices)."