association area

Questions about association area

What is another word for association area?

It depends which association area you mean. In the sense “cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information”, the synonyms are association cortex. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of association area?

WordNet records no antonym for association area. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for association area come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of association area

• Full entry for association areaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for association areaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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