suprasylvian

English

Etymology

supra- +‎ sylvian

Adjective

suprasylvian (not comparable)

1. Superior to the sylvian fissure
   • 2016 January 6, “The Primary Visual Cortex Is Differentially Modulated by Stimulus-Driven and Top-Down Attention”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     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 ].