association cortex

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

   Synonymsassociation area

   Broadercortical area

Questions about association cortex

What does association cortex mean?

association cortex 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 cortex?

Close synonyms include association area. 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 cortex a common word?

association cortex 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.