extra stuff for neuro test 2

Question 1

Brain areas involved in explicit memory

Answer 1

Basal forebrain, dorsal medial thalamus, parahippocampal formation

Question 2

Brain areas involved in implicit memory

Answer 2

Motor learning: Motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum

Visual: occipital

Auditory: auditory cortex

Question 3

Relationship between hand dominance and language

Answer 3

95% R handers L dominance

60-70% L handers L dominance

Question 4

Arcuate Fasiculus

Answer 4

Connects broca’s and werneke’s. Damage to this area produces conduction aphasia.

Question 5

If someone has average immediate recall, impaired delay recall, and impaired recognition recall….

Answer 5

Typical of damage to medial and lateral temporal lobe structures. Suggests problems with consolidation / storage

Question 6

If someone has impaired immediate recall, low average delay with high proportion retained, and low average or better recognition…

Answer 6

Typical of depression or subcortical damage. Suggests problems with encoding.

Question 7

When there is discrepancy between auditory-verbal and visual-graphic recall

Answer 7

Suggests lateralized damage

Question 8

What does immediate recall test?

Answer 8

Working memory, storage, and retrieval

Question 9

Agnoagnosia

Answer 9

Lack of awareness of deficits. Only from right hemisphere damage.

Question 10

Definitive malingering evidence

Answer 10

Below chance performance. Presence of substantial external incentive.

Question 11

Reliable digit span

Answer 11

Longest forward +longest backward. If less than 7, malingering is likely.