How to Use parietal lobe in a Sentence

parietal lobe

noun
Definition of parietal lobenext
  • There are two parts of the brain thought to be central to sleep paralysis: the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe.
    — Nitun Verma, SELF, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The wave then may travel to the sensory strip in the parietal lobe, inducing a marching disturbance from the hand up to the face and tongue.
    — R. Allan Purdy, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • That is largely undisputed, but there was also a large fracture on the right parietal lobe.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 July 2019
  • The network of neurons that broadcast these messages is hypothesized to be located in the frontal and parietal lobes.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • The parietal lobe processes sensory data such as touch and spatial sense.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
  • By contrast, those participants whose answers aligned with the others activated a different part of the brain called the parietal lobes.
    — Robert Pearl, Vox, 23 July 2019
  • But the right parietal lobe does have functional and anatomical connections to the putamen, Hayashi said, so perhaps the interactions of the two produce a more cohesive perception of time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Scans of brain activity suggested that an area in the right parietal lobe is responsible for this subjective experience of time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Young people with autism show a lot of folding in patches of the left temporal and parietal lobes—regions responsible for processing sound and spatial information respectively, the study found.
    — Rachel Zamzow, Scientific American, 9 July 2018
  • Her studies also included neurological disorders like Balint syndrome, in which damage to the parietal lobes of the brain limits what is seen in a field of vision or otherwise disrupts perception.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Beginning in the late 1990s, neuroimaging studies showed that a specific area of the parietal lobe — the IPS — is important for very basic numerical magnitude processing, such as deciding which of two numbers is larger.
    — Carlin Flora, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
  • Later, neuroanatomists argued instead the parietal lobe is more important for intelligence and men’s are actually larger.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Her group is testing whether small electric currents delivered through the skull to one of the areas contacted by the superior colliculus, the inferior parietal lobe, can improve the symptoms of anorexia by encouraging more active firing of neurons.
    — Kendall Powell, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
  • For example, a person with the acalculia variant experiences a deterioration in the intraparietal sulcus, which is located in the parietal lobe.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The immense value of a precision bombing tool would have stimulated the generals’ reward centers, activated their parietal lobes, and led them to perceive the technology as effective despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
    — Robert Pearl, Vox, 23 July 2019
  • Neurosurgeon Joshua Bederson recently used augmented-reality technology to remove a three-centimeter-wide brain tumor in a 76-year-old man’s parietal lobe, a part of the brain that handles such information as touch and spatial orientation.
    — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 28 May 2018

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