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Cortex

noun

(pl. cortices)

The layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum. Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium.

The tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal.

The tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus. Synonym: lens cortex.

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... tissue) that are basic in all nervous and mental processes. They are dependent upon the modificability of nerve cells and fibers by stimuli, e. g., a light flashing through the pupil and passing along the optical tracts to the occipital cortex produces changes which constitute the basis of visual memory. Experience modifies nervous tissue in definite manner, and SOMETHING remembers. Who remembers? Who is conscious? Believe what you please about that, call it ego, soul, call it consciousness dipped out of a cosmic ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... or find in the brain of man that answers to the soul? Only certain movements of matter in the brain cortex. What difference does it find between inert matter and a living organism? Only a vastly more complex mechanics and chemistry in the latter. A wide difference, not of kind, but of degree. The something we call vitality, that ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs