Brain And Behavior

Question 0

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure processes spatial information, including the body’s space and relationship to space?

Answer 0

Parietal

Question 1

What general paths do perceptions take in the brain en route to becoming verbal cognition?

Answer 1

Perceptions travel from back to front, with a dorsal “where” path and a ventral “what” path

Question 2

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure processes “gut feelings” visceral sensory information, pain and emotional response to pain, mediates between bodily pain and conscious emotions?

Answer 2

Insula

Question 3

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure processes information from the auditory cortex and secondary visual cortex?

Answer 3

Sensory Cortices (Temporal Lobe)

Question 4

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure processes declarative, semantic (knowledge of objects, concepts, faces and words) and spatial memory?

Answer 4

Hippocampus (Temporal Lobe)

Question 5

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure processes information concerning emotion detection, threat detection and emotional memories?

Answer 5

Amygdala

Question 6

What is meant by the term prefrontal cortex?

Answer 6

Frontal cortex anterior to the motor and premotor cortex

Question 7

A lesion to what lobe can cause autoscopy or out of body experiences?

Answer 7

Parietal

Question 8

Lesions to what lobe were statistically associated with a loss of urge to smoke?

Answer 8

Insula

Question 9

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure gives an exaggerated response in mood/anxiety disorders?

Answer 9

Amygdala

Question 10

Complex perception is delivered from the temporal lobe to the orbital and ventro medial frontal lobe via what? (Decreased in neglected orphans)

Answer 10

Uncinate fasciculus

Question 11

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure is associated with craving and contains learned and innate social/emotional information and gives “value” to decision making? (High activity in patients with OCD in addition to caudate nucleus)

Answer 11

Orbital Frontal Cortex

Question 12

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure does conscious cognition, working memory, executive functions, the kind of thinking you think of when you think of thinking?

Answer 12

Dorsal/lateral Frontal Cortex

Question 13

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structures are important reward systems and for motivated behavior?

Answer 13

Ventral striatum and Nuc. Accumbens

Question 14

Basal ganglia affects thought via what?

Answer 14

Cortico striatal thalamic loops

Question 15

What cerebral lobe or sub-cortical structure processes motivational significance of stimuli?

Answer 15

Medial frontal cortex (anterior cingulate)