Word: cerebrum
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...profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality as well as quantity from that of even the higher apes. As a Pavlovian, Sargant sees all the phenomena he describes as "physiological" though obviously they depend on emotional reactions, with physical changes present only in some of them...
...another instance, 15 volunteers were given a chance to watch a brain operation. As the delicate steps exposing a pulsating cerebrum proceeded, one by one the men left the room, some violently ill, until only four remained. After only two night's work, one pre-med student changed his vocational plans, it was revealed by his more cold-blooded companions...
Knox H. Finley, for electro-physiological studies on the hypothalamus and cerebrum...
...with the spectacular results described in Science last week by Drs. Sam Lillard Clark and James W. Ward of Vanderbilt University. Their look threw much needed light on the relations of the cat's hind brain to the rest of its body. The front part of the brain (cerebrum) governs intelligence and will power. The rear part (cerebellum) governs action. In that region of a cat's brain the experimenters drilled several small holes into which they screwed small steel tubes. This arrangement allowed them to touch the cat's brain with a wire and stimulate...
Matron. The principal portion (cerebrum) of the brain consists of a left and a right hemisphere. On their surfaces these hemispheres are colored grey, in their interiors white. Textbooks say that thinking takes place in the grey matter, that the white interior matter merely transmits sensations to the grey cortex and carries instructions from it to the voluntary parts of the body...