How to Use pallium in a Sentence

pallium

noun
  • How much of the bird pallium is like the cortex is still subject to debate.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Like all vertebrates, salamanders have a structure called a pallium that sits near the front of the brain.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers imaged the pallium before and after the fish learned, and analyzed the changes in synapse strength and location.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • But recent studies have split on which part of the pallium is responsible for storing spatial memory.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The body is dressed in red papal vestments, along with a bishop's mitre and pallium, a white wool scarf-like band that symbolizes papal authority.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Contrary to expectation, the synaptic strengths in the pallium remained about the same regardless of whether the fish learned anything.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The pallium, fabric worn around the neck, is considered sacred and often worn during services of grave importance.
    — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This suggested that at least parts of the DVR evolved from the pallium of an ancestor shared with amphibians.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Consistent with the overall conclusions, the number of neurons in the pallium went up with both absolute brain size and brain size relative to body size.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
  • Zaremba and her team also found that in the bird pallium, neurons that start development in different regions can mature into the same type of neuron in the adult.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Wired News, 11 May 2025
  • The pallium, a woolen collar embroidered with six crosses, is an ancient symbol of authority and obligation.
    — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • The pallium — a strip of lambswool — was placed on Leo’s shoulders with three pins representing his role as a shepherd and the nails of Christ’s crucifixion.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • After performing his own version of this procession, the new Pope will likely be presented with the pallium and the ring as a symbol of his taking of the papacy.
    — Solcyré Burga, Time, 9 May 2025
  • For each species, the total number of neurons (in millions) in their brains is shown in yellow, the number of neurons (in millions) in their forebrains (pallium) is shown in blue and their brain mass (in grams) is shown in red.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2016
  • When working within the anatomical scheme set out by Edinger, an observer finds the pallium strongly resembles the subpallium.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • In their investigation, researchers targeted the pallium, a structure in bird brains that's analogous to the mammalian cerebral cortex.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2016
  • As recently as late 2023, scientists found that goldfish with lesions in the pallium performed worse on memory tasks than those without lesions, regardless of which part was altered.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Recordings of the crows’ brain activity during these tasks revealed that neurons in a region of their brain called the pallium represent zero as a quantity alongside other numerosities, just as is found in the primate prefrontal cortex.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 15 Aug. 2021
  • In mammals, the neocortex is the hulking, evolutionarily modern outer layer of the brain that allows for complex cognition and creativity and that makes up most of what, in vertebrates as a whole, is called the pallium.
    — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2020
  • In 2009, Benedict visited L’Aquila, which had been devastated by a recent earthquake and prayed at Celestine’s tomb, leaving his pallium stole on it.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 5 June 2022
  • In 2009, Benedict visited L'Aquila, which had been devastated by a recent earthquake and prayed at Celestine's tomb, leaving his pallium stole on it.
    — Nicole Winfield, USA TODAY, 5 June 2022
  • If salamanders had neurons in their pallium that were similar to neurons in the mammalian neocortex or the reptilian DVR, then those neurons must have existed in an ancient ancestor that all three groups of animals shared.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In 2009, Benedict visited L’Aquila, which had been devastated by a recent earthquake, and prayed at Celestine’s tomb, leaving his pallium stole on it.
    — Fox News, 5 June 2022
  • When specific brain regions were analyzed independently, the pallium was the most significant region associated with complicated bird behavior; the cerebellum also contributed, but to a smaller extent.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
  • Four years before resigning in 2013, Benedict visited Celestine's tomb and left his own pallium stole — a vestment symbolizing episcopal authority — at his medieval predecessor's grave.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 7 June 2022

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