Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
præcuneus .
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- noun anatomy A
division of themedial surface of theparietal lobe of thecerebrum
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The precuneus is the area of the default network that typically displays the highest levels of activation during rest when a person is not focusing on an external task.
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It is of small size, and consists of a square-shaped convolution, which is termed the precuneus or quadrate lobe.
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Dr. McIntosh and his colleagues want to learn more about these suspected "servers," including an area called the precuneus
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANNE McILROY 2011
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Dr. McIntosh and his colleagues want to learn more about these suspected "servers," including an area called the precuneus
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANNE McILROY 2011
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They found activity differed in a region called the precuneus, implicated in imagination.
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Particularly, creative individuals had difficulty suppressing the precuneus area of their default network while engaging in the more effortful working memory task.
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The precuneus has been linked to self-related mental representations and episodic memory retrieval.
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Many scientists believe the default network has two major hubs, one in the posterior cingulate cortex with the precuneus and one in the medial prefrontal cortex.
You Are Who You Are by Default William Harryman 2009
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Many scientists believe the default network has two major hubs, one in the posterior cingulate cortex with the precuneus and one in the medial prefrontal cortex shown above.
You Are Who You Are by Default William Harryman 2009
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What this study found is that when false memories, or reality-monitoring errors, were produced for words that had been presented without pictures (i.e., when these words were remembered as having been presented with pictures), the brain areas that were active during the study phase (most notably, the precuneus, right parietal, and anterior cingulate regions) overlapped significantly with those active during actual picture presentation.
Archive 2004-10-01 Chris 2004
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