How to Use forebrain in a Sentence

forebrain

noun

• Still, the new findings suggest an enlarged forebrain could be part of what gave them their edge.
  — Nala Rogers | Inside Science, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2021
• Or if not laughter, then perhaps just a faint tickle in the forebrain, as of a very tiny problem, solved.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
• Those nerves pass through a bony plate to reach the olfactory bulb, a small neural structure in the forebrain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
• Smell is the only sense that doesn’t pass through the thalamus before reaching the forebrain.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• But when the mouse embryos were injected with rat stem cells, the mice developed with forebrains made from rat cells.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• As a result, these fish had more connections between neurons in the forebrain.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• But all that is the product of our forebrains — where cool, dispassionate reason lives.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• There are three basic units of an vertebrate brain–the midbrain, forebrain, and the hindbrain.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• Given the circuits in their forebrain and vocal tract muscles, some animals do learn human sounds.
  — T. Nelson Thompson, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024
• In the marine bristleworm, clocks exist in its forebrain and peripheral tissues of its trunk.
  — Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The neurons in a round structure at the base of my forebrain are firing like crazy, a cacophony of neural activity.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
• During development, the eyes are part of the embryonic forebrain.
  — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
• Green staining shows the neurons in the olfactory pits, forebrain, and elsewhere, while red shows retinal ganglion cells in the eyes and some midbrain neurons.
  — Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2010
• In order to test how exactly the cells influence sleep need, the team focused in on astrocytes in an area of the brain called the basal forebrain, which is known for having a large impact on sleep.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• There's nothing inherently 'academic' about forebrain, in other words.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2012
• Located in the forebrain, this bulb is directly connected to the olfactory receptor neurons that line the inside the nose.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• Hirsch hypothesizes that the size or development of specialized parts of the brain — like the forebrain or areas devoted to visual processing might play a role.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
• As suggested by earlier studies, Tessmar-Raible found light-sensitive neurons in the worms’ forebrains.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• Besides the dorsal cortex, researchers were able to grow, among other regions, parts of the ventral forebrain, which makes neurons that connect to the cortex, and the choroid plexus, which generates spinal fluid.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2014
• Humans process sensory information and critical decision making in the forebrain.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• That means damage to parts of the forebrain, although serious, won’t necessarily incapacitate the entire animal.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
• Throughout the day, adenosine gradually accumulates as a byproduct of brain activity, increasing feelings of sleepiness by inhibiting wake-promoting regions such as the basal forebrain.
  — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2026
• Paşca and his colleagues have now used organoid models of parts of the human forebrain—the seat of higher cognitive abilities such as complex thought, perception and voluntary movement—to peer into how gene activity drives brain development.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• In the study, published Thursday in Science, Paşca’s team coaxed human induced pluripotent stem cells into 3-D cultures mimicking the earliest stage of two parts of the forebrain.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• In Mignot’s view, REM has all the hallmarks of being an ancient phenomenon, one that evolved amid vertebrate evolution before the forebrain, where most complex thinking happens, had a chance to expand.
  — Henry Nicholls, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• Research from the University of Tübingen have demonstrated crows are capable of counting out loud up to four, a skill likely attributed to their particularly large forebrain which is typically linked with statistical reasoning.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 July 2024