How to Use ventral in a Sentence

ventral

adjective
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  • Its gray-blue flanks were ticked with cream flecks and its ventral fins were tinged with orange.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2018
  • And in 2015, the singer underwent surgery for a ventral hernia.
    — Diana García, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Romantic love triggers a part of the brain called the ventral tegmental area (VTA).
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The coins had collected in a heavy ball that cracked the turtle’s ventral shell, leading to an acute infection.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The coins had collected in a heavy ball that cracked the turtle’s ventral shell, leading to an acute infection.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2017
  • It's produced in the ventral tegmental part of the brain and is released when a person expects or receives a reward of any kind.
    — Peter Dunn, Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2017
  • That first spark of attraction ignites a region buried deep inside the brain called the ventral tegmental area, or VTA.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The ventral striatum, located in the midbrain, is part of the limbic system and is linked to perceiving rewards and pleasure.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In both situations, the neurons in the midbrain's substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area flared up in response to the images.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In Sarah's case, the circuit ran from her amygdala, an area known to control fear and other strong emotions, to her ventral striatum, which is involved in decision-making.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Safety cues activates the ventral, and danger cues activate the dorsal.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The researchers used a version of AlexNet to model the ventral visual stream of macaques and figured out the correspondences between the artificial neuron units and neural sites in the monkeys’ V4 area.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The region—called the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)—may produce a fundamental model of our self and place it in mental time.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The images are input into a computer model that measures the length, width, and height (from its dorsal fin to ventral fins) of a whale and accurately calculate its mass.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Another region, the ventral striatum, is part of the brain’s reward and motivation system.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 16 Aug. 2017
  • These allowed him to measure the electrical voltage gradient between the cervix and the ventral abdominal wall.
    — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
  • The farm fish will also potentially have damaged or eroded dorsal, ventral and tail fins from their captivity in nets.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The ventral area of real brains contains inhibitory, or brakelike, neurons that are not initially present in the dorsal region but that migrate there later.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The authors concluded that the right ventral prefrontal cortex, involved in processing risk and fear, helps regulate the distress of social exclusion by disrupting the ACC.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Neuroscience revealed that the cluster is directly linked to another part of the hypothalamus called the ventral subiculum.
    — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The researchers found that, when presented with photos of their exes, participants had increased activity in the ventral tegmental area of the brain, which plays a significant role in pleasure and joy.
    — Suzy Katz, SELF, 12 May 2022
  • These stem cell structures included two types: cortical spheroids, which mimicked the rear, or dorsal, forebrain, and subpallial spheroids, which represented the front, or ventral, forebrain.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The dorsal section plays a role in distinguishing self from other and appears to be task related, whereas the ventral section, the vmPFC, contributes more to emotional processing.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Specifically, the scans showed differences in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC), which prior research has shown to be very important when people think about themselves.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Three brain areas work together to stop body movement: the dorsal part of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (red), the ventral part of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (blue) and the bilateral frontal eye fields (green).
    — Ben Tinker, CNN, 8 Dec. 2017
  • By 2012, neuroscientists were using deep neural networks to model the primate ventral visual stream.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The ventral striatum is activated in the brains of couples who are asked to compliment each other, suggesting that the anticipation is itself rewarding.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • In humans, this ventral pathway begins in the eyes and proceeds to the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus, a sort of relay station for sensory information.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
  • In one study, for instance, MRIs show an area of the brain (ventral striatum), that tracks reward satisfaction, is significantly more activated in adolescents than either in children or adults.
    — Gerald Posner, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • And that portion of their brains was also showing greater functional connectivity, communicating more readily with another part of the brain, the ventral striatum, known as the brain’s reward center.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017

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