Definition of "neopallium" [neopallium]

• See neocortex. (noun)

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• "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."
• "The neopallium is the dorsal cap of the brain, with frontal, parietal, and occipital areas, comprehending all that part of the brain which is the seat of the higher associative activities, reaching its fullest development in man."
• "With the larger and more recently developed mammals, therefore, the cerebral cortex, which by then had become all neopallium, must wrinkle."