The neocortex is the center of intelligence in our brains
Summary
The neocortex is the napkin size sheet of neural tissue that covers our brain. When we look at a brain, the grey wrinkled part that we see is the neocortex.
Details
It handles higher-order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands spatial reasoning and language.
There are regions for different areas but it is not so easy to categorize since they seem to be spread out in different places.
one square mm of neocortex has about 100,000 neurons, 500 million connections (synapses) and several kilometers of axons and dendrites.
Imagine a few kilometers of wire squeezed into the size of a grain of rice.