subcortex
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Brainspotting engages the subcortex where memories are stored, Gonzalez said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
Mothers also show brain changes in the subcortex – the more ancient structures nestled deeper within the brain that are linked with more primitive functions, including emotion and motivation.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
Other real calamities — economic, domestic terrorism, natural disasters — seem to have taken over that part of the cultural subcortex where fear is stored.
From New York Times • May 22, 2011
The spark showed up not in the left prefrontal cortex but in what Knutson terms an old section, the nucleus accumbens, located in the subcortex, at the bottom of the brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
The music darts into the ear, does its subtle job in the subcortex of the brain, then slips out the other ear without saying goodbye.
From Time Magazine Archive
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