Association Cortex

Question 1

What is considered cognition?

Answer 1

selective attention to external sitmuli and internal motivation
recognition and identification of stimuli
planning responses to stimuli

Question 2

What is the cognitive function of the parietal lobe?

Answer 2

attend to complex stimuli in the external and internal environment

Question 3

What is the cognitive function of the temporal lobe?

Answer 3

identifying the nature of complex info and matching it to a stored template

Question 4

What is the cognitive function of the frontal lobe?

Answer 4

planning and executing a behavioral response to stimuli

Question 5

What part of the brain is considered uniquely you?

Answer 5

associative cortex

Question 6

The (blank) is the cerebral cortex outside the primary areas. It is essential for mental functions that are more complex than detecting basic dimensions of sensory stimulation, for which primary sensory areas appear to be necessary.

Answer 6

associative cortex

Question 7

Disruption of what lobe will causes deficits in selective attention?

Answer 7

parietal lobe

Question 8

Recognition is associated with which part of you brain?

Answer 8

temporal lobe (right and left)

Question 9

Planning is associted with which part of your brain?

Answer 9

frontal lobe

Question 10

What is the most common stroke? What part of the brain does this effect?

Answer 10

middle cerebral artery stroke

parietal temporal lobe

Question 11

(blank) is a part of the cerebral cortex concerned with sight and hearing in mammals, regarded as the most recently evolved part of the cortex.

Answer 11

neocortex

Question 12

(blank) is the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum

Answer 12

paleocortex

Question 13

Lateralization of the brain becomes more prominent towards the (anterior/posterior) part of the brain.

Answer 13

posterior

Question 14

T/F it is easy to determine the difference between a right or left frontal lobe injury?

Answer 14

F, because the frontal lobe is anterior, there is less cross over

Question 15

T/F it is easy to determine the difference between a right or left parietal injury?

Answer 15

T, because the parietal lobe is posterior so there is prominant lateralization

Question 16

What are effects of lesions to the right parietal lobe?

Answer 16

spatial distribution of attention
contralateral neglect syndrome
disruption in spatial frame of reference

Question 17

What is contralateral neglect syndrome?

Answer 17

it is where you have a parietal lobe injury and you do not recognize one side of the universe even exists

Question 18

Is contralateral neglect syndrome usually with the left side of the body or the right?

Answer 18

right side, i.e they can recognize the right side of the world but not the left side

Question 19

if a patient draws half a house what do they have?

Answer 19

contralateral neglect syndrom due to a parietal lobe injury

Question 20

Is spatial distrubtion of attention predominantly right or left hemisphere?

Answer 20

right hemisphere

Question 21

Why do you usually have left neglect rather than right neglect?

Answer 21

because the right hemisphere will cover both the right and left hemisphere so if you knock out the left hemisphere your right hemisphere will have you covered, but if you knock out your right hemisphere you will only be able to see the right side of the world (cuz thats all the left hemisphere gives you)

Question 22

Whats the only way you can get right neglect?

Answer 22

if you damage both hemispheres of the parietal lobe

Question 23

Whats object agnosia?

Answer 23

you cant recognize objects

Question 24

How can you get objects agnosia?

Answer 24

right temporal lobe lesion

Question 25

What is this: | an inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain.

Answer 25

prosopagnosia

Question 26

How can you get prospagnosia?

Answer 26

lesion of right temporal lobe

Question 27

(blank) is a partial object agnosia in which the failure is in the ability to identify individual members of a category or set while retaining the ability to identify the category

Answer 27

Prosopagnosia

Question 28

What happens if you have a right frontal lesion?

Answer 28

aprosodias "missing the point" motor program deficits

Question 29

(blank) is a neurological condition characterized by the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody. Prosody in language refers to the ranges of rhythm, pitch, stress, intonation, etc.

Answer 29

aprosodias

Question 30

What happens if you have a lesion to the left frontal lobe?

Answer 30

``` expressive aphasias (can use words with emotions like swear words but other words come out with great effort) motor program deficits (typically dyspraxia i.e no language deficit just problem making speech) ```

Question 31

How can you tell if someone has dyspraxia versus aphasia?

Answer 31

they cant write if they have aphasia

Question 32

Do women or men recover better from strokes?

Answer 32

women

Question 33

(blank) is a form of aphasia in which the patient is unable to recall the names of everyday objects.

Answer 33

anomia

Question 34

When can you get anomia?

Answer 34

if you have a left temporal lesion

Question 35

What happens if you have a left parietal lesion?

Answer 35

receptive aphasia (temporal-parietal border) acalculia right-left confusion

Question 36

Left parietal zone is specialized for (blank)

Answer 36

lanugage

Question 37

Wernickes aphasia is what kind of aphasia?

Answer 37

receptive aphasia (cant understand what people are saying)

Question 38

What happens when you get damage to your frontal lobe?

Answer 38

loss of ability to form or follow plans (thus overreactive to immediate stimuli) defects in the impulse to act (too much or too little) dysexecutive syndrome apparent loss of motivation disinhibition

Question 39

What can huffing cause?

Answer 39

Damage to frontal lobe :(

Question 40

What happened to the guy that had the bar through his frontal lobe?

Answer 40

he lost inhibition and control, i.e. his personality changed, but his functionality was fine

Question 41

Why were frontal lobotomies (leukotomy) popular?

Answer 41

made people docile

Question 42

(blank) involves the compromise of essential language (symbolic) functions while leaving sensory and motor components of verbal (and written) communication intact

Answer 42

Aphasia

Question 43

What is expressive aphasia?

Answer 43

broca's aphasia (understand but cant express speech)

Question 44

What is receptive aphasia?

Answer 44

wernickes aphasia (speech is fluent, dont make sense, dont understand)

Question 45

What is a rare diconnection aphasia?

Answer 45

conduction aphasia

Question 46

What is this: An acquired language disorder, it is characterized by intact auditory comprehension, fluent (yet paraphasic) speech production, but poor speech repetition)

Answer 46

conduction aphasia

Question 47

Where is brocas area?

Answer 47

frontal lobe

Question 48

Where is wernickes area?

Answer 48

temporal/parietal border

Question 49

``` What are these: Post mortem studies Commissurectomies (split brain studies) Sodium amytal Electrical stimulation of surgical patients Structural imaging Functional imaging A note with regard to false color ```

Answer 49

ways to establish lateralization

Question 50

Whats worrisome about false color? How does it work?

Answer 50

you can distort data and use it for abuse :( | gives a certain density a color

Question 51

What hemisphere does this: | analysis of right visual field

Answer 51

left hemisphere function

Question 52

What hemisphere does this: | sterogenosis (right hand)?

Answer 52

left hemisphere function

Question 53

What hemisphere does this: | lexical and synatic language

Answer 53

left hemisphere function

Question 54

What hemisphere does this: | writing, speech?

Answer 54

left hemisphere function

Question 55

What hemisphere does this: analysis of left visual field stereogenesis (left hand)

Answer 55

right hemisphere

Question 56

What hemisphere does this: | emotional coloring of language

Answer 56

right hemisphere

Question 57

What hemisphere does this: spatial abilities rudimentary speech

Answer 57

right hemisphere

Question 58

In split brain indiviuals, when you put an item in their right visual field they were (not able/ able) to say what they saw.

Answer 58

Able! because their left hemisphere does speech (however if you put an object on your left visual field they couldnt say it but may be able to draw it)

Question 59

How can normal people see something in their left visual field and still be able to say whay they saw?

Answer 59

because the corpus collusum allows for communcation between hemispheres

Question 60

Where do you find asymmetry in thre brain that is found near the wernicks area, it allows hetermodul info to converge here? What does it do exactly?

Answer 60

planum temporal (there is also a smaller one near brocas area) we dont know!!!!

Question 61

Left handedness is associated with greater (blank) as opposed to superiority or inferiority of a given talent, skill, or disability

Answer 61

variability