Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The great ganglion of the fore-brain: more fully called
corpus striatum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The corpus striatum.
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- noun anatomy The caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
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Examples
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The second, involving the striatum, is called habit learning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Such ingrained habits appear to rely on a brain region called the striatum.
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The results showed increased activity in the striatum, which is a part of the brain associated with the way we experience reward.
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The results showed increased activity in the striatum, which is a part of the brain associated with the way we experience reward.
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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.
Josh Clark: How Does Multitasking Affect Memory? Josh Clark 2010
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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.
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