Sentences with phrase «evolutionarily ancient part»

But nutrition — including calories — was processed in another part of the reward center: the dorsal striatum, an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that activates motor behavior.

In a paper published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how images of snakes affect the pulvinar — a cluster of neurons in an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain called the thalamus.

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The cerebrum is the most recent part of the brain to evolve, and positioned on top of the more evolutionarily ancient portions of the brain, such as the brain stem.