Word: cerebrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...