Final Brain Regions

Question 1

Storing and encoding of self-referential memory/info

Answer 1

Medial prefrontal cortex

- increase in baseline activity suggest that we are always engaging in self-referential thoughts

Question 2

Identifying with social rules and conduct, making decisions that maximize reward

Answer 2

Orbitofrontal cortex

• Phineas Gage damage

Question 3

Judgement of personal traits in other people

Answer 3

Medial prefrontal cortex

Question 4

Theory of mind - mental states of others

Answer 4

Right temperoparietal junction

Question 5

Positive aspects of oneself

Answer 5

Anterior cingulate

Question 6

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 6

Medial temporal lobe

Question 7

Korsokoff’s syndrome

Answer 7

Diencephalon, dorsal medial nucleus of thalamus, mammillary bodies

Question 8

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 8

Amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles

Question 9

Initial encoding of episodic memory

Answer 9

Hippocampus

Question 10

Working memory

Answer 10

Lateral prefrontal cortex

Question 11

Processing of spoken speech

Answer 11

Superior temporal cortex

Question 12

Processing of written speech

Answer 12

Left occipital temporal lobe

Question 13

Fear conditioning, threat recognition, learning

Answer 13

Amygdala

Question 14

Anger

Answer 14

Orbitofrontal cortex

Question 15

Disgust

Answer 15

Insula

Question 16

Sadness

Answer 16

Temporal lobe, amygdala

Question 17

Extinction/overwriting of acquired fear responses

Answer 17

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex, OFC

Question 18

Contextual fear acquisition and extinction

Answer 18

Hippocampus

Question 19

Stress

Answer 19

Less dendrites in frontal, less more in amygdala