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Definition of Association area
1. Noun. Cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information.
Literary usage of Association area
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"More than this, the association area is a center which becomes more and more
highly organized in its inner structures through use, so that its influence on ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"The parietal association area widely separates the areas of vision and common
... separate the general sensory area from the parietal association area, ..."
3. Psychology; an Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human by James Rowland Angell (1908)
"... frontal association area; /., the island of Reil, another association area,
to show which the cortical surfaces just above the fissure of Sylvius have ..."
4. Speech Training for Children: The Hygiene of Speech by Margaret Gray Blanton, Smiley Blanton (1919)
"THE association area The sensory nerve cells receive the impressions as they come
from the periphery through the sensory nerves. Certain parts of the brain ..."
5. Psychology and the School by Edward Herbert Cameron (1921)
"OTA association area. AF association area. I. association area disclosed to view
by separating Fissure of Sylvius. R. Fissure of Rolando. ..."
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