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1
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The hindbrain has what neural structures ?

A

Metencephalon and myelencephalon

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Which lobe of the telencephalon predominantly processes visual information?

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Occipital lobe

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Which lobe of the telencephalon predominantly processes auditory information?

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Temporal lobe

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What are efferent nerves?

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Nerves that send signals from the CNS to muscles

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What are afferent nerves?

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Sensory signals from the whole body to the CNS

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What is the thick band of fibres that separate the cerebral hemispheres called?

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Corpus Callosum

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What is the name of myelin producing cells located in the peripheral nervous system?

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Schwann cells

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Up to how long can an axon be in the human nervous system?

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From the base of the spine to the toes

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Nociceptors detect change in what kind of stimuli?

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Pain

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The ventral stream processes what property of an object?

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the recognition of an object

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Thermoreceptors detect change in what kind of stimuli?

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Temperature

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What kind of impairment does someone with autotopagnosia have?

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The loss of ability to recognise parts of ones or someone else’s body

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What part of the brain is tonotopically organised and what does it mean?

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The auditory cortex

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What part of the brain is somatotopically organised and what does it mean?

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The primary somatosensory cortex

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What is the difference between sensation and perception?

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sensation is the process of detecting the presence of a stimulus whereas perception is the process of integrating, recognising and interpreting patterns of sensations

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Olfaction refers to what exteroceptive sense?

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smell

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Somatosensation refers to what exteroceptive sense?

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Touch

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Gustation refers to what exteroceptive sense?

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Taste

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what is proprioception ?

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body awareness

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Photoreceptors detect change in what kind of stimuli?

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change in light

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Chemoreceptors detect change in what kind of stimuli?

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Ph and organic molecules

22
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The dorsal stream processes what property of an object?

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spatial information

23
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Mechanoreceptors detect change in what kind of stimuli?

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vibration, sound and acceleration

24
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What is a scotoma?

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the medial term for blind spot

25
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What is Apraxia?

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the inability to perform voluntary movements

26
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What is Contralateral Neglect?

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the who fail to respond to stimuli on the opposite side of the body to where the lesions has happened

27
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Which part of the brain sends instructions to the muscles that allow you to move?

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the primary motor cortex

28
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Name the three ways that the human sensory system model is organised?

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parallel
functionally segregated
hierarchal

29
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What does damage to the basal ganglia result in?

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Parkinsons and Huntingtons

30
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What is the role of secondary motor cortex?

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thought to be involved in programming specific movements after taking instructions from the association cortex

31
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What is the role of posterior parietal association cortex?

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it receives input from the visual, auditory and somatosensory systems

32
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What does damage to the cerebellum result in?

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movement control and clear speech

33
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what is the role of the Occipital face area (OFA) ?

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it is activated when you see a face and works out if something is a face

34
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what is the deep valley that separates the cerebral hemispheres ?

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Central fissure

35
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Why can’t you tickle yourself?

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consequencesof our movements are attenuated

36
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what are mirror neurons

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neurons that help us imitate the actions of others. They respond to purposeful actions

37
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who first reported the discovery of mirror neurons

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Giacomo Rizzolatti

38
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In what area of the Macaque monkey brain were mirror neurons first found?

A

premotor cortex

39
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What is one of the proposed functions of mirror neurons?

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imitation ansd empathy

40
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What is empathy?

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the ability to understand another persons feelings

41
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What did Gauthier et al (1999) suggest was an alternative role for the FFA?

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That the fultiform face area is more about within category expertise acquisition

42
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What is the role of the superior temporal sulcus (STS)?

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Responds to changeable aspects of the face

43
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what is prosopagnosia

A

face blindness

44
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What area of the brain is damaged when someone can’t recognise the emotion of fear?

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Amygdala

45
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what is the capgras delusion

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when they think that a person has been replaced by an imposter

46
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what part of the brain is damaged when someone can’t recognise the emotion of disgust

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the ffa

47
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what is simulation theory

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48
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what is the handy model divided into

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the core system specialised system and the extended system which is more face-related but more general function

49
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what is the role of the Fusiform fact area

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responds to the stable aspects of a face

50
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Why can’t you tickle yourself?

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the forward model states predicts that sensory consequences of self-generated movements and those generated by external stimuli

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