frontal
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During typical aging, the brain's gradual shift away from relying heavily on the hippocampus and toward greater involvement of the frontal cortex generally unfolds between the fifth and seventh decades of life.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Dave Owen, a professor at UC Law San Francisco, said the suit is “a frontal assault on the State Water Project.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Wednesday will start cloudy and wet as a frontal system slowly drifts eastwards.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
But in the 1960s, she fused her mandala-faces and landscapes into dense, mysterious worlds—relief-like frontal fields in which deities, animals and foliage, woven together, blossom and interchange between figure and ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
When the researchers scanned the subjects’ brains, they discovered that this tiny fraction of people seemed to have less activity going on in key portions of the frontal lobe.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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