Cortex

• I'm pretty sure that the cortex is the most studied bit of the nervous system.
• Academics have argued that our large cortex is the reason human's are so smart.
• It is a big bit of our brain, and can be broken up into several areas.
• One way is using Brodmann Areas. Brodmann did this in 1909 and it is still widely (though definitely not exclusively) used.
• Another way to split the cortex is to break the cortex into four lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital.
• The Brodmann areas fit into this.
• It's also the case that the cortex has two halves (both with four lobes and all the Brodmann areas) connected by the corpus callosum.