How to Use occipital lobe in a Sentence
occipital lobe
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The Chemist’s pills target the part of the brain that houses creativity, the occipital lobe, and cranks it up to ten.
—Kelly McClure, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
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Instead, we were treated to treats from users flexing their occipital lobes to craft hip-hop themed tweets.
—Desire Thompson, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
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That also meant removing the entire right side of his occipital lobe and part of his temporal lobe on his right side.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
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The occipital lobe is where the brain processes vision.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022
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First, look at the fit system: typically a dial at the back that tightens the helmet around your occipital lobe.
—Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 19 June 2022
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In blind people, for instance, the occipital lobe strongly responds to touch.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2020
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The primary visual cortex, in the occipital lobe, at the rear of the head, then sends out these signals—which are conveying things like edges, colors, and motion.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
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Cortical folding appears to decrease with age across large swaths of the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes in both young people with autism and controls.
—Rachel Zamzow, Scientific American, 9 July 2018
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Maybe take a brief break from staring at the blank page before you, open up that dirty window, and feel the TikTok algorithm on your exhausted occipital lobe.
—Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2021
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The occipital lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex, the thick outer layer of gray matter covering our noggins’ hemispheres.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
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The condition synesthesia is linked to the occipital lobe.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
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Afarensis's occipital lobe, or the brain's visual center, was located toward the front of the skull, similar to modern apes.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
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For example, if the visual defect is caused by dysfunction of the brain's occipital lobe (the primary vision area), surgery will not correct it.
—Dagny Zhu, Verywell Health, 26 Jan. 2023
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But localizationists had long ago demonstrated that vision occurs in the occipital lobe, which is located at the back of the brain.
—Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
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The visual processing center of their brains, known as the occipital lobe, was larger than their human counterparts.
—Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
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Visual and spatial problems may be due to the disease building up in the occipital lobe, which is important for vision processing, Dr. Grant says.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 28 Nov. 2018
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It is usually caused by damage to the fusiform gyrus in the posterior temporal lobe and anterior portion of the occipital lobe.
—Daniel Gibbs, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2021
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While the human brain does most of its visual processing in a region called the occipital lobe, cephalopod neurology appears to be a bit more disorganized.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
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There images are converted to electrical signals and sent to the occipital lobe, where the information is processed back into imagery.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
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Brain activity, predominantly in the occipital lobe, provided enough information to re-create the layout and perspective of the photos being viewed, the researchers found.
—Bykamal Nahas, science.org, 7 Mar. 2023
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These MRIs showed neurological connections between the dog’s occipital lobe and olfactory bulb.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022
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