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Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
Hayes, who now has a solo career, manly stubble, and a fully functioning frontal lobe, comes back to Solène.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
The root cause is a hyperactive amygdala, a brain region that plays an essential role in emotional processing, and its connection to a frontal lobe region that controls our feelings, thoughts, and actions.
—Marc D. Hauser, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
The fundraiser wrote that the fight left the girl with a skull fracture and damage to her frontal lobe.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
The brain’s frontal lobe controls thinking, planning, problem-solving, movement and short-term memory, according to the Mayo Clinic.
—Raja Razek and Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The connections between his brain’s frontal lobes, which are responsible for executive function, and the parts of the brain that generate fear, anger, impulsiveness and violence were badly frayed.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Home for Thanksgiving After 158 Days in the Hospital
Doctors also discovered he’d been born without the right frontal lobe of his brain, leaving his left side with partial mobility.
—Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
Brain magnetic resonance imaging found a growing lesion in her right frontal lobe.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
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“Frontal lobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frontal%20lobe. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Medical Definition
frontal lobe
noun
: the anterior division of each cerebral hemisphere having its lower part in the anterior fossa of the skull and bordered behind by the central sulcus
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