Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The great ganglion of the fore-brain: more fully called corpus striatum.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy The caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The corpus striatum.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus
Examples
“The second, involving the striatum, is called habit learning.”
“To look at this they looked at changes in gene expression in an area of the brain called the striatum, which is an area associated with the rewarding and reinforcing properties of drugs like cocaine.”
“Such ingrained habits appear to rely on a brain region called the striatum.”
“While contemplating a mishap, like a broken leg, activity in the rACC modulated signals in a region called the striatum that conveyed the good and bad of the event in question – biasing activity in a positive direction.”
“PET scans showed the participants' brains pumped out more dopamine in a region called the striatum when listening to favorite pieces of music than when hearing other pieces.”
The Huffington Post: The Brain Responds To Music The Same Way As Eating
“The results showed increased activity in the striatum, which is a part of the brain associated with the way we experience reward.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Ariely: The Upside of Irrationality and Revenge
“In the meantime, we're still taking in information, but it's slipping past the pLPFC hub and into the striatum, which is responsible for habit learning, like driving a car or finding letters on a keyboard.”
The Huffington Post: Josh Clark: How Does Multitasking Affect Memory?
“Shy children, however, showed two to three times more activity in their striatum, which is associated with reward, than outgoing children, the team reports in the 14 June issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.”
“We found no salsolinol, but we did find significant amounts of methyl salsolinol in a dopamine-rich area of the brain called the striatum, a part of the reward system.”
“PET scans showed the participants' brains pumped out more dopamine in a region called the striatum when listening to favourite pieces of music than when hearing other pieces.”
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synapse, pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata, optic chiasm, myelin, hypothalamus, thalamus, telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, zona incerta and 87 more...
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