How to Use temporal lobe in a Sentence

temporal lobe

noun
Definition of temporal lobenext
  • The temporal lobe is on the sides of the brain, inside the skull near near the ears and temples.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The right temporal lobe in the brain is the last area to degenerate.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2020
  • There are two parts of the brain thought to be central to sleep paralysis: the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe.
    — Nitun Verma, SELF, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The behavioral variant, which is linked to changes in the frontal and temporal lobes, is the most common.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This constant search uses a part of our brain called the temporal lobe.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • This wasn’t a lesion in the temporal lobe, or epilepsy.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The disease afflicts about 5,000 patients in the United States and causes rapid nerve cell loss in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In three weeks, Weidman had two brain surgeries and the part of the right temporal lobe removed.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The fact that the suspicious signal came from the right temporal lobe also fits with the woman’s left arm jerks, because the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2013
  • We are desperately hooked, thanks to how the temporal lobe works.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • Four months in the hospital During that time, Gomez said Catherine had surgery to remove parts of her frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes on the left side of the brain.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The two foremost portions of the brain, the frontal lobe and the two temporal lobes help people plan, pay attention, multitask and make choices.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
  • This is what is damaged in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.
    — Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • This kind of agile thinking involves the medial temporal lobe, Gluck says, and tends to decline with age.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • At every age, prolonged sitters show less thickness in the medial temporal lobe and the subregions that make it up, the study found.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The same was true of the auditory cortex, situated on the temporal lobes above each ear.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That also meant removing the entire right side of his occipital lobe and part of his temporal lobe on his right side.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The temporal lobes — where sound is heard, memories are formed and emotions originate — had been pulled back and down, stretched like saltwater taffy.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • This finding implies that impairment of the temporal lobes by FTD could enhance this visual area.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
  • Brief episodes of phantom smells or phantosmia — smelling something that’s not there — can be triggered by temporal lobe seizures, epilepsy, or head trauma.
    — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • People who did high levels of sitting had less thickness in the medial temporal lobe.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • When noise hits our eardrums, tiny hairs convert it into an electric signal, which travels through the auditory nerve to the temporal lobe.
    — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The olfactory bulb has connections to regions of the temporal lobe.
    — Jessica Bernard, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The other lobe affected, the temporal lobe, is another of the four major lobes and borders the occipital lobe on the bottom of the cerebral cortex.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Frontotemporal dementia, which describes a group of disorders and often involves the loss of brain cells and connections in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • Our brains come hard-wired with the ability to hear and speak language (from a place called Wernicke’s area in the temporal lobe) and the ability to understand and remember symbols (the parietal lobe).
    — Melanie Hamon, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The tumor, which turned out to be cancerous, was in my left temporal lobe, specifically the hippocampus and amygdala.
    — Health.com, 31 July 2019
  • Ruiz-Blondet adjusted my hair and moved my glasses a bit so that the headphones would be able to effectively tune into my temporal lobe.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • To access a lesion in the patient’s hippocampus, a surgeon had removed the tissue from their left anterior temporal lobe, a part of the brain thought to play a role in our memory of objects, people, words and facts.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
  • Instead, because of where the patients’ electrodes were inserted, the study focused on the medial temporal lobe, which is involved in memory.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023

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