The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...

The temporal lobe is part of the cerebral cortex. It plays a role in memory, enables people to process sound and vision, and is crucial for recognizing objects and language. Dysfunction in the ...

Much progress has been made by cognitive neuroscientists in understanding the separate roles of the medial temporal and prefrontal lobes in memory, but the way in which these regions interact in the ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and environmental shifts. Fossil Homo sapiens had smaller temporal lobes ...

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from ...