Final Details

Question 1

Evoked potentials depend on:

Answer 1

Physical properties of the stimulus

Question 2

Grandmother cell

Answer 2

multimodal

Question 3

Rather than relying on reaction times, lesion methods tend to rely on which of the following?

Answer 3

Error rates

Question 4

Posner (1978) called study of the time-course of information processing in the human nervous system

Answer 4

Mental Chronometry

Question 5

Which imaging method measures the white matter connectivity between regions?

Answer 5

DTI Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Question 6

Protons from which type of molecule found in the human body form the main basis for the MRI signal?

Answer 6

H20

Question 7

The principle of cognitive subtraction holds that it is possible to infer functionally specialized brain regions by:

Answer 7

Identifying regions activated by an experimental, but not baseline, task

Question 8

fNIRS (functional near infrared spectroscopy)

Answer 8

Measures BOLD response (Blood-Oxygen Level-Dependent Contrast)

Question 9

Talairach coordinates define locations in the brain according to x, y, and z values, with the origin lying at a region called the:

Answer 9

Anterior Commisure

Question 10

The process of smoothing spreads the raw activation of a given voxel to neighboring voxels according to which function?

Answer 10

Gaussian Distribution

Question 11

By choosing a more conservative significance level (P value) in neuroimaging analysis, one runs the risk of failing to detect true regions of activation, an error known as:

Answer 11

Type II error

Question 12

According to Farah et al. (2014) how good is fMRI at separating truthful versus deceitful answers?

Answer 12

69% - 100%

Question 13

Which nucleus projects to primary auditory cortex along the thalamo-cortical route?

Answer 13

Medial Geniculate Nucleus

Question 14

One way of dealing with variability in the acoustic signal in the brain is:

Answer 14

Categorical Perception

Question 15

In the Biased Competition Model at what stage does serial processing emerge?

Answer 15

Motor Stages

Question 16

Neglect is associated with lesions to the:

Answer 16

Right Inferior Parietal Lobes

Question 17

The ability to report on the content of awareness is referred to as:

Answer 17

Access Consciousness

Question 18

Which of the following accurately describes the changes in the basal ganglia motor circuit of patients with Parkinson’s disease:

Answer 18

Increasing the output of the indirect pathway, and decreasing the output on the direct pathway

Question 19

The primary motor cortex corresponds to which Brodmann area?

Answer 19

Brodmann Area 4

Question 20

The frontal eye fields can be found in which Brodmann area?

Answer 20

Brodmann Area 8

Question 21

The lateral premotor cortex has been associated with:

Answer 21

acting with objects in the environment

Question 22

The human analogue of monkey area F5 is believed to be in:

Answer 22

Broca’s Area

Question 23

Neurons in which of the following brain region area code action-relevant properties of objects (e.g. specific shapes, sizes, and orientations)?

Answer 23

Anterior Intraparietal Area

Question 24

A sharp edge of a particular object indicates that it is useful for cutting. The property of objects that allow us to make this inference is called:

Answer 24

Affordance

Question 25

The key difference between working memory and short-term memory is that working memory emphasizes not only storage of information but also its:

Answer 25

Manipulation

Question 26

The key difference between working memory and short-term memory is that working memory emphasizes not only storage of information but also its:

Answer 26

Anterograde

Question 27

Long-term potentiation represents an increase in the responsiveness of which type of neuron?

Answer 27

postsynaptic neuron

Question 28

The results of Anderson et al.’s (1994) retrieval-induced forgetting study, in addition to subsequent results, supports which type of forgetting mechanism?

Answer 28

inhibition

Question 29

Fletcher and Henson (2001) suggested that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has the specific function of:

Answer 29

Monitoring

Question 30

Morris

Answer 30

Water maze

Question 31

Which of the following neuroimaging analysis techniques was used to determine the gray matter volume in the hippocampi of London taxi drivers (Maguire, 2000)?

Answer 31

Voxel-Based Morphometry

Question 32

Patients with damage to which brain region typically exhibit socially disadvantageous behavior, but generally do well on other measures of executive functioning?

Answer 32

Orbitofrontal Cortex

Question 33

Maintaining an out-of-date rule in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test is a sign of:

Answer 33

Perserveration

Question 34

According to Goldman-Rakic’s working memory model, prefrontal activity provides a mechanism especially for:

Answer 34

Refreshing information stored in posterior regions

Question 35

The idea of a multiple demand network is most closely linked with:

Answer 35

Duncan

Question 36

In Miller and Cohen’s (2001) view, prefrontal neurons respond primarily to:

Answer 36

Task Rules

Question 37

Jahanshahi et al. (1998) discovered that repetitive TMS over which area of the brain results in less random and more familiar sequences?

Answer 37

Left DLPFC

Question 38

Aron et al. (2004) suggested that the right ventrolateral prefrontal region specifically relates to:

Answer 38

inhibition

Question 39

The circuit that includes regions of the cingulate cortex, the hippocampus, the hypothalamus, and the anterior nucleus of the thalamus is called the:

Answer 39

Papez circuit

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT one of Haidt’s moral emotions?

Answer 40

Fear

Question 41

Eisenberger, Lieberman, and Williams (2003) found that which region was implicated in feelings of social exclusion?

Answer 41

Mid Anterior Cingulate

Question 42

Oberman et al. (2005) used EEG to show that people with autism:

Answer 42

Showed less mu suppression when watching hand actions

Question 43

Ellis and Young (1990) suggested that patients suffering from which syndrome can consciously recognize faces but lack emotional responses to them?

Answer 43

Capgras patients

Question 44

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 regions implicated in theory-of-mind by Frith and Frith (2003)?

Answer 44

Premotor cortex

Question 45

Baron-Cohen (2002) suggests that the characteristics of all individuals can be classified according to two dimensions, which include:

Answer 45

Empathizing and systemizing

Question 46

In fear conditioning experiments the shock is an example of:

Answer 46

unconditioned stimulus