Specifically, the team's findings suggest that neurons in two regions of the brain — the
postrhinal association cortex and the lateral amygdala — help integrate information about external food cues and hunger state.
Nicholas Simon: Temporal Dynamics
of Association Cortex - Parahippocampal Interactions in a Continuous Delayed Nonmatched to Sample Task in Rats
In people, a brain region called the parietal
association cortex is important for body ownership.
Yet because of advances in the measurement of brain activity, we now know that these areas are far from silent; they make up what neuroscientists term the brain's «
association cortex,» which plays a vital function in connecting perceptions, thoughts and emotions across diverse brain areas.
Most of this difference reflects the evolutionary expansion of the neocortex in humans, particularly
the association cortex, a group of regions that supports such sophisticated cognitive functions as language, self - awareness, and problem solving.
Memory transfer for long - term storage Explicit memory formation involves the transfer of rapidly encoded information from the hippocampus to long - term storage sites in
the association cortex.
In a study featured in the Journal of Neuroscience, UCL researchers explained that a person's sense of vision and hearing are located in a shared and limited region of the brain called
the association cortex.