Word: hippocampus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hippocampus, connected with the mamillary body, is shaped like its namesake, the seahorse. The hippocampus builds up psychic emotion...
Psychic emotion occurs when a man sits down and gets angry by thinking about wrongs done to him by an enemy. In psychic emotion, therefore, the emotional impulse is initiated within the brain-that is, by the cerebral cortex. The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process. This passes through the mamillary body, thence to the gyrus cinguli and so back to the cortex where the emotional experience is felt...
Oats for a Hippocampus...
...sketches he disposes of the Apes. "When a Chimpanzee looks at another Chimp he does not see what we see. They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average...