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temporal
(redirected from temporal lobe)

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The lesion abutted the right medial temporal lobe, the right internal carotid artery, and the basilar artery.
As the electrical impulses representing each phoneme, morpheme or word course through the temporal lobe and into the frontal lobe of the brain, the brain picks up meaning and associations about the words (semantics) from areas of the temporal cortex.
The corresponding brain portion in the other, intact temporal lobe was able to compensate for the cognitive functions formerly orchestrated by lost tissue.
 
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