temporal lobe

noun

|Updated on: 9 Aug 2018

Definition 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

Recent Examples of temporal lobe from the Web

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, "Too much sitting may thin the part of your brain that's important for memory, study suggests," 13 Apr. 2018
Even before Alzheimer's disease steals memories, the condition begins to change the density and volume of the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, memory-making structures that lie at the heart of the medial temporal lobe.

— melissa healy, latimes.com, "Too much sitting may thin the part of your brain that's important for memory, study suggests," 13 Apr. 2018
The study did not find any correlation between subjects' exercise habits and the thickness of either their medial temporal lobe or its constituent structures.

— melissa healy, latimes.com, "Too much sitting may thin the part of your brain that's important for memory, study suggests," 13 Apr. 2018
So some of these patients can actually develop dementia, called frontal-temporal lobe dementia.

— katherine harmon, Scientific American, "How Has Stephen Hawking Lived Past 70 with ALS?," 7 Jan. 2012
He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where doctors found a lesion in his left temporal lobe.

— phil thompson, chicagotribune.com, "Mike Adamle pushes CTE mission on 'Today' show," 1 Feb. 2018
Fronto-temporal lobar degeneration accounts for about 10 percent of dementia cases and describes shrinking of the frontal and temporal lobes.

— paul sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, "What is dementia?," 2 Oct. 2017
The disease targets the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, causing the debilitating symptoms.

— jonel aleccia, Kaiser Health News, "A Rare Dementia Gene Runs In The Family, But He’s Fine — So Far," 11 Sep. 2017
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, "Why Was Their Brother’s Memory and Behavior so Strange?," 2 Nov. 2017

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1889

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temporal lobe

noun

medical Definition 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