Encourage hours of play and adventure, all while developing their cerebral cortex with social, gross motor, and imaginative skills, tying stories in to some of the world's most classic adventure literature. (tinyfry.com)
Subplate neurons form the first connections in the developing cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning. (sciencedaily.com)
In a pioneering series of anatomical studies carried out over the past three decades, Rakic has revealed how neurons in the developing cerebral cortex are generated and how they assemble themselves into highly ordered, distinctively layered, and densely interconnected circuits that direct higher order sensory and motor functions. (kavlifoundation.org)