suprasylvian

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adjective

Superior to the sylvian fissure

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Meanings

adjectivesuprasylvian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSuperior to the sylvian fissure

    Our experiments on behaving cats showed that enhanced beta activity may serve as an attention carrier in cortico-thalamic loops involving cortical areas 17 and 18, the medial suprasylvian cortex, and the first- and higher-order thalamic nuclei [4 ,6 ,12 ].

    2016 January 6, “The Primary Visual Cortex Is Differentially Modulated by Stimulus-Driven and Top-Down Attention”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From supra- + sylvian.

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suprasylvian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suprasylvian

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