Research has proven that the hippocampus and its associated cortical structures are active when people think about future events.

As human communities became increasingly complex, so did the cortical structures involved in parsing ethical dilemmas.

Studies in animal models indicate that aggression is affected by several interconnected cortical and subcortical structures within the so-called social behavior network.

Other regions of the brain involved in phobia include the thalamus and the cortical structures, which may form a key neural network along with the amygdala.

However, the Three Stage Model does not incorporate the importance of other cortical structures in memory.

The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures.

It remains one of the earliest methods of analyzing the brain and has allowed researchers to study the relationship between cortical structure and systemic function.

It proposes the idea that the state of waking consciousness is only present in humans due to the evolution of extensive cortical structures within the brain.

It is the first cortical structure to process incoming auditory information.

It was not until much later that this classical model began to expand to include other areas of the basal ganglia and even some cortical structures.