Higher Cortical Functions Flashcards
The left lateral corticospinal tract:
- Originates from the right primary motor cortex.
- Innervates skeletal muscles on the right.
- Is sensory in function.
Originates from the right primary motor cortex.
The most important structure that determines intelligence:
- Broca’s area
- Wernicke’s area
- Angular gyrus
Angular gyrus
Responsible for exciting muscles for speech production:
- Angular gyrus
- Wernicke’s area
- Premotor cortex
- None of the choices are correct
Non of the choices are correct
Responsible for judgment, abstract reasoning, and foresight:
- Premotor cortex
- Prefrontal association area
- Parieto-occipitotemporal association area
- B and C
Prefrontal association area
The Wernicke’s area is responsible for:
- Language comprehension
- Processing auditory information
- Processing visual information
- All of the above
All of the above
Concerned primarily with behavior, emotions, and motivation:
- Limbic Association Area
- Secondary somatosensory areas
- Frontal lobe
- Primary motor and sensory areas
Frontal lobe
Language-based intellectual functions is a function of the:
- NON-DOMINANT hemisphere
- DOMINANT hemisphere
- Neither A nor B
DOMINANT hemisphere
Understanding and interpreting music is a function of the:
- NON-DOMINANT hemisphere
- DOMINANT hemisphere
- Neither A nor B
NON-DOMINANT hemisphere
Saying “I am good.” in response to hearing the question “How are you?” involves the following areas, EXCEPT:
- Broca’s area
- Heschl’s gyrus
- Wernicke’s area
- Primary sensory cortex
- Arcuate fasciculus
Primary sensory cortex
An instruction you read requires a handwritten homework based on your understanding of what you have read in a book. The following areas are involved in the performance of this task, EXCEPT:
- Primary, secondary and tertiary visual areas
- Wernicke’s area
- Broca’s area
- Supplementary/pre-motor area
- Primary motor area
Primary motor area
With damage to the ____________, a person can still have excellent language comprehension through hearing but not through reading.
- Angular gyrus area
- Wernicke’s area
- Broca’s area
- A and B
- B and C
Angular gyrus area
With damage to the Wernicke’s area,
- language comprehension through hearing and reading is good.
- language comprehension through hearing and reading is poor.
- language comprehension through hearing is good but not through reading.
- language comprehension through reading is good but not through hearing.
language comprehension through hearing and reading is poor.
Association areas:
- Receive sensory input
- Are motor areas
- Are for higher processing of several information
Receive sensory input
Astereognosia is a manifestation of a problem in the:
- Primary motor cortex
- Primary somatosensory cortex
- Primary auditory cortex
- Primary visual cortex
Primary somatosensory cortex
This part of the hemisphere is described as more free-spirited, involved in visual-spatial skills, intuition, emotion, and artistic and musical skills:
- Right hemisphere
- Left hemisphere
- None of the above
Right hemisphere
This part of the hemisphere in most people is the most dominant hemisphere:
- Right hemisphere
- Left hemisphere
- None of the above
Left hemisphere
Described as inability to recognize objects by touch:
- Apraxia
- Aphasia
- Astereognosia
- Ataxia
Astereognosia
The precentral gyrus is __ in general:
- Motor
- Sensory
- Neither motor nor sensory
Motor
Lobe that processes sensations of touch, temperature, pressure and pain.
- Frontal
- Parietal
- Temporal
- Occipital
Parietal
Receive information from the proprioceptors (position sense receptors) in skeletal muscles, joints, and tendons:
- Visual cortex
- Somatosensory cortex
- Premotor cortex
Somatosensory cortex
If you hear somebody shouting for help behind you, which event/s is/are LIKELY to happen?
- Auditory areas receive and process the auditory stimuli
- Wernicke’s area provides the meaning of the sounds
- Prefrontal association area makes you decide you should help
- All of the choices are correct
All of the choices are correct
The temporal lobe is responsible for:
- Hearing (through the primary auditory cortex, Bas 41, 42)
- Processing vestibular information
- Motor planning
- A and B only
A and B only
This part of the hemisphere is described to be working when we compose a sentence, balance a checkbook, and memorize a list:
- Non-dominant hemisphere
- Dominant hemisphere
- None of the above
Dominant hemisphere
The postcentral gyrus is __ in general:
- Motor
- Sensory
- Neither motor nor sensory
Sensory
Articulation refers to:
- Muscular movements of the mouth, tongue, larynx, vocal cords
- Language comprehension
- A, B
- None of the choices
Muscular movements of the mouth, tongue, larynx, vocal cords
The ability to identify the part of the body being stimulated is called:
- Spatial discrimination
- Lateralization
- Both
- Neither
Spatial discrimination
