frontal
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As people grow older, the brain tends to place less emphasis on activity in the hippocampus and rely more on the frontal cortex.
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
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
After mid-August there are signs of high pressure receding for a time, allowing Atlantic low pressure and frontal systems closer to the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Students of neurology or psychology study his case because it illustrates how the lobes of the frontal cortex—the two halves of your brain that meet in your forehead—are the seat of "executive functions."
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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