If stretched out flat, the human cerebral cortex would cover an area of about ________. In addition, the average 20 year old has about ________ miles of white matter in his or her brain.
The human cortex is an outer layer that is covering the grey matter over the hemisphere and is typical 2-4 mm thick and certain regions have a similar function and are termed as the primary cortices and are responsible for receiving the sensory inputs ad thus have more complex fictions and are also involved n the synthesis of movements.
