association area

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

   Synonymsassociation cortex

   Broadercortical area

Questions about association area

What does association area mean?

association area means "cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information".

What is another word for association area?

Close synonyms include association cortex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is association area a common word?

association area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.