Lobe
noun
A rounded part or section of something, for example the parts of your brain or your ears.
The frontal lobe of the brain is responsible for problem solving and decision making.
Often appears as...
- frontal lobe
- earlobe
noun
A rounded projection, especially a rounded, projecting anatomical part.
Each lung has three lobes.
Often appears as...
- lung lobe
- liver lobe
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Technical
noun
A distinct part of an organ or organism, often one of several or many similar parts.
The leaf has five lobes.
Often appears as...
- leaf lobe
- flower lobe
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Academic
noun
A rounded part or section of something, for example the parts of your brain or your ears.
The frontal lobe of the brain is responsible for problem solving and decision making.
Often appears as...
- frontal lobe
- earlobe
noun
A rounded projection, especially a rounded, projecting anatomical part.
Each lung has three lobes.
Often appears as...
- lung lobe
- liver lobe
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Technical
noun
A distinct part of an organ or organism, often one of several or many similar parts.
The leaf has five lobes.
Often appears as...
- leaf lobe
- flower lobe
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Academic
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Pro Tip 1/2Anatomical Division
Refers to divisions within organs, associated with their function or structure.
Studying the lobe structure helps us understand brain functions.
Pro Tip 2/2Body Part Description
Often used to describe the shape of parts like ears and brains.
She pierced the lower part of her earlobe.
Pro Tip 1/2Anatomical Division
Refers to divisions within organs, associated with their function or structure.
Studying the lobe structure helps us understand brain functions.
Pro Tip 2/2Body Part Description
Often used to describe the shape of parts like ears and brains.
She pierced the lower part of her earlobe.
Pro Tip 1/2Anatomical Division
Refers to divisions within organs, associated with their function or structure.
Studying the lobe structure helps us understand brain functions.
Pro Tip 2/2Body Part Description
Often used to describe the shape of parts like ears and brains.
She pierced the lower part of her earlobe.
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Why helmets don't...
that is different than other animals is we have these two very large lobes. We have the right brain and the left brain. And the key thing to notice in this figure here is that right down the center of the right brain and the left brain there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain. And in that fissure, what you can't see in this image,
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What's so funny about...
It comes completely conscious. It's got state-of-the-art lobes. We've got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world. We got the temporal lobe so we can actually hear the world. Here we've got a little bit of long-term memory, so, you know that night you want to forget, when you got really drunk? Bye-bye! Gone.
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How optical illusions...
that have specifically evolved to help us recognize faces. Like the fusiform face area and others in the occipital and temporal lobes. It makes sense, too, we're very social animals with highly complex ways of interacting with each other. When we see faces, we have to recognize they are faces
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Abundance is our future...
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe called the amygdala.
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Nature is the...
in our frontal lobes that correlate with a relaxed mental state this is all part of an emerging sub-discipline that I call neuro Biophilia the science of how nature engages the brain now I love that we have all the some technology to help
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Is this the most...
life had branched out to include most of the animal groups we know today. Trilobites were an important part of this surge. All trilobites had three lengthwise lobes, but building off the same basic components, they varied greatly.
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Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
the coyote population is also benefited pronghorn antelope you see coyote specialize in feeding and young the lobe fawns and their mothers as they try to protect their offsprings will do not on top of all these ecological and
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Wendy Suzuki: The...
The second key area is located in the temporal lobe, shown right here. You have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure critical for your ability
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What hallucination...
There is a film. You're seeing a film which has nothing to do with you -- or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this,
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The Venus Fly Trap’s...
existing in nutrient poor soil the venus flytrap harvests the vital food it needs by catching prey in its jaw-like leaves each trap is actually a modified leaf split into two red lobes
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Why helmets don't...
that is different than other animals is we have these two very large lobes. We have the right brain and the left brain. And the key thing to notice in this figure here is that right down the center of the right brain and the left brain there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain. And in that fissure, what you can't see in this image,
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What's so funny about...
It comes completely conscious. It's got state-of-the-art lobes. We've got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world. We got the temporal lobe so we can actually hear the world. Here we've got a little bit of long-term memory, so, you know that night you want to forget, when you got really drunk? Bye-bye! Gone.
Video examples
How optical illusions...
that have specifically evolved to help us recognize faces. Like the fusiform face area and others in the occipital and temporal lobes. It makes sense, too, we're very social animals with highly complex ways of interacting with each other. When we see faces, we have to recognize they are faces
Video examples
Abundance is our future...
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe called the amygdala.
Video examples
Nature is the...
in our frontal lobes that correlate with a relaxed mental state this is all part of an emerging sub-discipline that I call neuro Biophilia the science of how nature engages the brain now I love that we have all the some technology to help
Video examples
Is this the most...
life had branched out to include most of the animal groups we know today. Trilobites were an important part of this surge. All trilobites had three lengthwise lobes, but building off the same basic components, they varied greatly.
Video examples
Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
the coyote population is also benefited pronghorn antelope you see coyote specialize in feeding and young the lobe fawns and their mothers as they try to protect their offsprings will do not on top of all these ecological and
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Wendy Suzuki: The...
The second key area is located in the temporal lobe, shown right here. You have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure critical for your ability
Video examples
What hallucination...
There is a film. You're seeing a film which has nothing to do with you -- or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this,
Video examples
The Venus Fly Trap’s...
existing in nutrient poor soil the venus flytrap harvests the vital food it needs by catching prey in its jaw-like leaves each trap is actually a modified leaf split into two red lobes
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Jason Mraz
American Musician
In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
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May-Britt Moser
Norwegian Psychologist
My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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Mischa Barton
American Actress
I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.
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Keith Barry
Irish Entertainer
I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.
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Padma Lakshmi
Indian Chef
Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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Armie Hammer
American Actor
My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.
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James Gray
American Director
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
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Nicholas Haslam
English Designer
I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.
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Jason Mraz
American Musician
In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
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May-Britt Moser
Norwegian Psychologist
My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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Mischa Barton
American Actress
I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.
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Keith Barry
Irish Entertainer
I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.
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Padma Lakshmi
Indian Chef
Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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Armie Hammer
American Actor
My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.
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James Gray
American Director
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
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Nicholas Haslam
English Designer
I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.
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