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Temporal Lobe

"Temporal Lobe" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Lower lateral part of the cerebral hemisphere responsible for auditory, olfactory, and semantic processing. It is located inferior to the lateral fissure and anterior to the OCCIPITAL LOBE.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Temporal Lobe" by people in this website by year, and whether "Temporal Lobe" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 116 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2015
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