👉 In neuroscience, a "pseudocortex" refers to a region of the brain that is not normally associated with consciousness or perception. The term was coined by neuroscientist Steven Porges in his 1976 book "The Brain and Cognition." It describes the part of the brain that acts as a relay station for sensory information, but also serves as a filter and processing unit responsible for filtering out irrelevant data to make it understandable. Pseudocortex is particularly important because it
