Cognitive neuroscience Flashcards
What is the definition of neuroscience?
The study of the organization of the nervous system and its functions.
What is the definition of cognition?
The mental action or process acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses.
Carl Wernicke reported a stroke patient who could talk quite freely but his words did not mean anything, true or false?
True. His patient could not comprehend written or spoken language.
Who is Paul Broca?
Broca was a French physician who discovered that having a lesion in the left hemisphere in the inferior lobe causes speech disturbances.
What part of the brain did Korbinian Brodmann analyze?
The cellular organization of the cerebral cortex.
What is the structure of the nervous system?
The brain and spinal cord.
What are the functions of the nervous system?
Control and communication info throughout the body.
What are the major structures and components of the brain?
Cerebellum (little brain) cerebrum (brain) brain stem.
What is the process involved in neuronal communications?
Neurons communicate at structures called synapse in a process called synaptic transmission. The synapse consists of the two neurons, one of which is sending info to the other.
What does CT stand for?
Computerized tomography.
What does MRI stand for?
Magnetic resonance imaging.
What does fMRI stand for?
functional MRI.
What is an axon?
The long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.
What are glial cells (neural glue)?
Non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system. They maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and provide support and protection for neurons.
