Why is temporal lobe called “temporal”

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The name of “temporal lobe” follows “temporal bone”. But why “temporal”? The reason is that when people get old, the first region in the head which grows white hair is this region (see picture below). Thus this region is kind of a “time” region. That’s where “temporal” comes from. (I get this from some textbook but I forget which one.)



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