How to Use subcortical in a Sentence

subcortical

adjective

• This means that the wiring of rats' brains is subcortical.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• These suggest that the control region may be located in the subcortical region of the left brain hemisphere.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
• In both dogs and humans, subcortical parts of the brain process intonations, while higher, cortical parts of the brain process word meanings.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2020
• Emotions are lower level responses occurring in the subcortical region of the brain—the amygdala—and the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• And if subcortical processing plays such a large role in speech, researchers might also have overlooked other important ways in which the brain makes sense of complex sounds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• In the study, the brain scans showed subjects’ subcortical gray matter volume decreased between January and August and increased between August and December.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2021
• Or different mechanisms might generate an attack in subcortical brain structures that help to process light, sound and other sensory stimuli and influence pain-sensing neurons in the brain.
  — R. Allan Purdy, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• When a person gets a compliment, the more primitive, subcortical auditory regions first reacts to the intonation—the emotional force of spoken words.
  — Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020
• Entrainment usually happens without conscious thought, occurring in the subcortical regions of the brain, Stegemoller says.
  — Luke Ottenhof, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2020
• In people with autism, the imbalance may favor the excitatory subcortical signaling involved in face perception.
  — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 27 June 2017
• The amygdala, a subcortical brain structure that responds to threat, can become hijacked: Children who experienced parental deprivation show amygdala hyperactivity, meaning the brain is more likely to signal danger even when there is none.
  — Dylan Gee, Vox, 20 June 2018
• Further implicating the chemokine, the increase was localized specifically to the white matter of the hippocampus, with no reactivity in cortical or other subcortical white matter.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Connections between higher-order systems and subcortical regions were also altered.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018
• This network covered various frontal, higher-order parietal and subcortical regions, mainly precuneus, angular gyrus, cingulate gyrus and frontal pole with right hemispheric lateralization bias.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018
• Two motor pathways control facial movement: a subcortical extrapyramidal motor system drives spontaneous facial expressions of felt emotions, and a cortical pyramidal motor system controls voluntary facial expressions.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024