How to Use occipital lobe in a Sentence

occipital lobe

noun

• 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
• Instead, we were treated to treats from users flexing their occipital lobes to craft hip-hop themed tweets.
  — Desire Thompson, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
• 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
• The occipital lobe is where the brain processes vision.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022
• 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
• In blind people, for instance, the occipital lobe strongly responds to touch.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The condition synesthesia is linked to the occipital lobe.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Here the temporal and occipital lobes work together to register information about the image itself as well as its visual layout, including things like perspective and scale.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• These MRIs showed neurological connections between the dog’s occipital lobe and olfactory bulb.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024