Word: gyrus
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Sensory emotion occurs when a child gets angry at a chair against which he has bumped his knee. The sense impressions reach the hypothalamus, where they become an emotional process. It emerges from the hypothalamus through the mamillary body and passes to the cortex by way of the gyrus cinguli...
...gyrus cinguli, a belt-shaped organ lying above the thalamic region. This is the receiving gate for impulses going into the cerebral cortex. It appears to be the seat of vigilance and of sex emotions...
...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...