Association Cortex

Question 1

What is role of primary sensory area?

Answer 1

receive inputs from the outside world

Question 2

What is role of primary motor cortex?

Answer 2

Coordinate responses to stimuli

Question 3

What is role of Association cortex?

Answer 3

Receives inputs from multiple inputs, integrate them to generate meaningful responses

Question 4

What is the function of the Temporal Association cortices?

Answer 4

Visual forms, objects, textures
Audtiory Prosody, Syntax
Polymodal/hereomodal- aud/vis/somat

Question 5

What is the function of the Parietal Association cortices?

Answer 5

Visuospatial awareness (Attention)
Visuomotor Transformations (Intention)
Somesthesis

Question 6

What is the function of the Frontal Association cortices?

Answer 6

Spatial, object working memory
Planning
Withholding responses

Question 7

How many layers does an asscoication cortex normally have?

Answer 7

at least 5, most 6

Question 8

What term describes impaired OBJECT recognition?

Answer 8

Agnosia

Question 9

What term describes impaired COLOR recognition?

Answer 9

ACHROMATOPSIA

Question 10

What term describes impaired FACE recognition?

Answer 10

PROSOPAGNOSIA

Question 11

What term describes impaired WORD recognition?

Answer 11

ALEXIA

Question 12

What term describes impaired UTILIZATION/TOOL USE?

Answer 12

APRAXIA`

Question 13

What is blindsight?

Answer 13

When a patient is unaware that he or she can see because the temporal region is spared

Question 14

Which lobe is associated with the breakdown of the dorsal pathway? what are the functional effects?

Answer 14

The Parietal Lobe damage causes hemineglect (not paying attention to one side) and impaired spatial accuracy

Question 15

What is the function of Prefrontal cortex?

Answer 15

Metacognition

Question 16

What is metacognition?

Answer 16

Selcting the most meaninful behavior to achieve desired outcomes and avoid undesired outcomes by integrating sensory information, pausing motor responses, and monitoring the outcomes/outputs

Question 17

What did patient Phineas Gage’s injury show?

Answer 17

He was able to survive from brain injury however lost his ability to control his action- ex. of damage to the prefrontal cortex that leads to emotional, cognitive, verbal or problems withoholding improper responses

Question 18

Schinzophrenia and ADHD are examples of what cognitive deficits?

Answer 18

deficits in working memory and planning, and changes in Prefrontal cortex