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neocortex
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neocortex [¦nē·ō′kȯr‚teks]
(anatomy)
Phylogenetically the most recent part of the cerebral cortex; includes all but the olfactory, hippocampal, and piriform regions of the cortex.


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Neural networks are modeled after the human brain, which contains about 10 billion neurons in the neo-cortex, each of which communicates with roughly 10 thousand other neurons.
 
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