lobe

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The frontal lobe is responsible for many higher level abilities, including planning, decision making, judgment, and emotional control.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

“I think there’s something to be said for frontal lobe development,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

I feel like—and I think it comes with turning 25—but my frontal lobe has developed and it’s like, “All right, time to be an adult now.”

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

The stud adorned Sussberg’s newly pierced left lobe only briefly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

He came back to the desk, knelt down beside it, real close, and flapped his lobe out so it sat like a tiny pancake on the top edge of the desk.

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli