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)

Sense 1

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"):

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)

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)

 Context examples 

In contrast, they saw no evidence of coordinated activity between the MTL and the cortical areas of the brain that control our movements and sensations, suggesting the simultaneous activity they observed may be related to episodic memory.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)