CORTICAL AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cortical area mean? 

• CORTICAL AREA (noun)
  The noun CORTICAL AREA has 1 sense:

1. any of various regions of the cerebral cortex

  Familiarity information: CORTICAL AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORTICAL AREA (noun)

Meaning:

Any of various regions of the cerebral cortex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cortical area; cortical region

Hypernyms ("cortical area" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cortical area"):

visual area; visual cortex (the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus)

sensorimotor area; sensorimotor region (an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions)

sensorium (the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world)

excitable area; motor area; motor cortex; motor region; Rolando's area (the cortical area that influences motor movements)

language area; language zone (a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language)

frontal area; frontal cortex (the cortex of the frontal lobe)

Brodmann's area (one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture)

auditory area; auditory cortex (the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body)

association area; association cortex (cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information)

Holonyms ("cortical area" is a part of...):

cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium (the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum)