cortical area

1. Any of various regions of the cerebral cortex (synset 105494572)
   is a type of: area, region - a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
   subtypes:

   • association area, association cortex - cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information
   • auditory area, auditory cortex - the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body
   • brodmann's area - one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture
   • language area, language zone - a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language
   • excitable area, motor area, motor cortex, motor region, rolando's area - the cortical area that influences motor movements
   • sensorium - the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world
   • sensorimotor area, sensorimotor region - an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions
   • visual area, visual cortex - the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus
   • area 17 of brodmann, brodmann's area 17, first visual area, striate area, striate cortex - the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision
   is a part of: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex, pallium - the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
   same as: cortical region

Other Searches

• Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
• Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
• Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing