How to Use temporal lobe in a Sentence

temporal lobe

noun
  • This constant search uses a part of our brain called the temporal lobe.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • 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
  • This is what is damaged in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.
    — Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, 8 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
  • 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
  • People who did high levels of sitting had less thickness in the medial temporal lobe.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • One victim in the affidavit was said to have missed a pre-op appointment to have a tumor removed from their temporal lobe.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s also a couple of areas that fall along the side of the middle temporal gyrus, this big hunk of meat that goes along the whole temporal lobe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The same was true of the auditory cortex, situated on the temporal lobes above each ear.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The frontoparietal control module spans the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes.
    — Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The olfactory bulb has connections to regions of the temporal lobe.
    — Jessica Bernard, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Galicich said Sophia was shot in her left temporal lobe and the bullet remains lodged in her right occipital lobe.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • This finding implies that impairment of the temporal lobes by FTD could enhance this visual area.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 26 May 2023
  • The disease targets the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, causing the debilitating symptoms.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Frontotemporal dementia is an all-encompassing term for a group of brain disorders that threaten the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • Frontotemporal dementia is an all-encompassing term for a group of brain disorders that threatens the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Frontotemporal dementia is an all-encompassing term for a group of brain disorders that threatens the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 28 May 2023
  • This makes sense, because LOC is a visual area, while superior temporal lobe encodes sounds.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • There is, for instance, the temporal lobe, the area by your ear, which is involved with memory, and the occipital lobe at the back of your head, which dedicates itself to vision.
    — Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
  • Frontotemporal dementia is an all-encompassing term for a group of brain disorders that threatens, as the name implies, the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023

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