ASSOCIATION AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does association area mean? 

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

1. cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSOCIATION AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

association area; association cortex

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

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)