temporal lobe
nounDefinition of temporal lobe
: a large lobe of each cerebral hemisphere that is situated in front of the occipital lobe and contains a sensory area associated with the organ of hearing
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The tumor, which turned out to be cancerous, was in my left temporal lobe, specifically the hippocampus and amygdala. — Health.com, "For 6 Years, Doctors Kept Telling Me I Had PMS—but It Turned Out to Be Brain Cancer," 31 July 2019 The case has been made more complex by the revelation that a baseball-sized tumor was found on Jordan’s temporal lobe just above her eyes, according to a motion filed by Mobile attorney Shane Taylor. — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al.com, "Dad jailed in starving death of 13-month-old girl seeks return to military job," 10 July 2019 The temporal lobes, the brain regions that H.M. was partially missing, play a crucial role in forming and recalling memories. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, "Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories," 4 Mar. 2019 The temporal lobe’s role in memory suggests that the hallucination might have represented something from Donal’s past. — Suzanne O’sullivan, WSJ, "Confessions of the Miswired Brain," 5 Oct. 2018 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, "Doctors cut out a large chunk of a boy’s brain—now he’s doing just fine," 1 Aug. 2018 The team next gave participants a working-memory task and found traveling waves in their frontal and temporal lobes became more organized half a second after people were prompted to recall information. — Simon Makin, Scientific American, "“Traveling” Brain Waves May Be Critical for Cognition," 28 June 2018 Frontotemporal dementia: This group of diseases is marked by the breakdown of nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which are usually linked with personality, behavior, and language. — Korin Miller, SELF, "What’s the Difference Between Normal Age-Related Memory Decline and Signs of Dementia?," 26 Oct. 2018 Ojemann makes a cut in the side of the woman’s temporal lobe, which is above the ear, avoiding what’s known as the eloquent cortex, parts of the brain that are generally understood to allow people to move, hear, speak, and see. — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, "The Heroes of Science Who Are Unlocking the Brain," 3 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'temporal lobe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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