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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That area of the cortex of the brain which lies between the hippocampus and the pyriform lobe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The neocortex.

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  • noun the cortical part of the neencephalon

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Examples

  • The larger the neopallium, which is the center of a great variety of coordinations among stimuli and responses, the more complex the potentialities of behavior.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • The neopallium is the dorsal cap of the brain, with frontal, parietal, and occipital areas, comprehending all that part of the brain which is the seat of the higher associative activities, reaching its fullest development in man.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • To enlarge the neopallium at that rate, however, meant that it would outgrow the skull.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • Some mammals, as they increased in size, enlarged the area of the neopallium more than in proportion, so they increased in intelligence as well.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • This usually implies an increase in the size of the brain and, as a result, in the cerebrum and neopallium.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • In the neopallium a greater variety of information is received and more complicated coordinations can be set up.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • This new portion of the OUR NEBVOUS SYSTEM 147 cortex is the neopallium (nee'oh-pal'ee-um; "new cloak" L).

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • It is the enlarged neopallium, then, which makes mammals in general more intelligent than any other group of vertebrates and, indeed, more intelligent than any group of invertebrates.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • With the larger and more recently developed mammals, therefore, the cerebral cortex, which by then had become all neopallium, must wrinkle.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • However, there is a large expansion in the size of the neopallium, which spreads out to cover the top half of the cerebral cortex.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

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