How to Use limbic system in a Sentence
limbic system
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At the same time, signals are sent to the part of the brain that deals with emotions (the limbic system).
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2022
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The lights in your limbic system are blinking on and off.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
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At the base of our brains, within the limbic system, is a primitive part called the amygdala.
—Roberta Moore, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
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Your limbic system is where tastes and odors are processed.
—Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2019
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Just as there is a brain circuit for language, there’s one for emotion, called the limbic system.
—Eliezer J. Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
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The two most fascinating parts of the brain are the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, which is right behind it.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
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Of the senses, smell alone has a direct line to our limbic system, the part of our mind that deals with emotions and memory.
—New York Times, 10 May 2021
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There’s a part of the brain called the limbic system, and that’s the part of the brain where emotions like anger and affection are processed, as well as memory.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
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Hecht saw changes in the parts of the limbic system and prefrontal cortex involved in emotions and social behavior.
—Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
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Our sense of smell runs straight to our limbic system, the region in our brain that regulates emotions and memory.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
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But the movies of Godard’s that most strongly imprinted themselves on my limbic system are not all available to stream.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
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Dalton explains that the olfactory part of the brain is connected to the limbic system, which is where our emotions take place.
—Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
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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
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My heart leapt at the sight of this gorgeous wild creature – joy seeping into my limbic system, giving me an agreeable rush.
—Bruce Beehler, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019
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Brain researchers have found that a happy ending triggers the limbic system, the brain's reward centre, to release dopamine.
—Greg Orme, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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Chemicals in the bloodstream can also signal the limbic system—a brain area that processes emotion and stress—to change our moods.
—Martin Oeggerli, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
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When treated with contempt, such as an eye roll, the limbic system of your brain responds and categorizes the other person as a threat.
—Grace Segers, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2020
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The amygdala, a part of the limbic system, is involved with processing emotions, learning to avoid what might be harmful and to seek what might be beneficial.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
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That scent information takes a direct line to the limbic system, which controls basic emotions.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
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The device vibrates gently behind your ears, which the company says activates the part of your brain that regulates emotions (the limbic system).
—Gear Team, Wired, 14 Jan. 2021
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Sensory neurons deep in their noses signal the brain’s limbic system—a primitive part of the brain that regulates emotions and memory—to act.
—Liz Langley, National Geographic, 19 May 2020
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Our limbic system is relatively large and indeed humans are a very emotive species.
—Emily Birch, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2018
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These networks include limbic system structures, such as the amygdala, which are important in our brain’s processing of emotions and stress.
—Z Paige L’erario, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
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Out of our five senses, our sense of smell is the most closely connected with our memories, more specifically, our limbic system.
—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
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In a cartoon full of big emotional wallops and tiny pings of heart-stopping narrative specificity, one moment in the new Netflix show City of Ghosts grabbed my limbic system the hardest.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 18 Mar. 2021
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My wife and daughter’s presence, however, had put me in a state of man-dad hypervigilance, with my limbic system on primordial high alert.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019
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Something felt unbalanced, as if a stealth assault had been made on the limbic system, the lacy cortical network that forms the architecture of our primal needs and emotions: pleasure, anger, fear.
—Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
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That study found changes in the limbic system and hippocampus of the brain, which oversees emotional and behavioral activities, as well as memory.
—Alice Park, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
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That nerve, or other cranial nerves, may be the virus’ springboard to the brain’s limbic system, the deep structures where emotions such as fear and anxiety are processed, and from which depression and anxiety disorders may spring.
—Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
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Rather, olfactory data heads straight to the limbic system, the oldest part of our brain and the one responsible for memory and emotional processes.
—Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
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