temporal lobe

Lower lateral part of the cerebral hemisphere. (MSH). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the temporal lobe is

Lower lateral part of the cerebral hemisphere. (MSH). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the temporal lobe is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the temporal lobe connects to

The atlas records 26 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. a kind of lobe of cerebral hemisphere.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: inferior anastomotic vein.

Also called

Also recorded as lobus temporalis and temporal cortex. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001871, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: lobe of cerebral hemisphere.
• Adjacent to: frontal lobe, occipital lobe and parietal lobe.
• contains: amygdala, auditory cortex, fusiform gyrus, inferior temporal gyrus, inferior temporal sulcus and middle temporal gyrus, and 9 more.
• contributes to morphology of: telencephalon, auditory cortex and superior temporal gyrus.
• subtype: left temporal lobe and right temporal lobe.
• Drained by: inferior anastomotic vein.
• connects: posterior part of anterior commissure.

Questions

Where is the temporal lobe?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the temporal lobe connect to?

A kind of: lobe of cerebral hemisphere.

Is the temporal lobe the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.