HPS111 - Week 4

Question 1

What is the relationship between brain mass and intelligence?

Question 2

What is the Encephalisation quotient? Why is this useful?

Question 3

Where is the Cerebral cortex? How is this difference in humans compared to other animals?

Question 4

What are the ways we can understand the relationship between brain and behaviour?

Question 5

Why are accidents and disease a limited approach to understanding the function of brain areas?

Question 6

Wha are examples of invasive and non-invasive techniques? Why might you use one or another?

Question 7

When would it be appropirate to use EEG?

Question 8

EEG and MRI differ in spatial and temporal resolution. Define these concepts and note which technique is better in each?

Question 9

What makes PET different from MRI?

Question 10

What is TMS? What is it useful for?

Question 11

What is DBS? In what cirumstances would DBS be used?

Question 12

What are parts of the Hindbrain?

Question 13

What part of the brain is responsible for breathing and heart rate?

Question 14

There are two parts of your brain described as being invovled in sleep, what parts are they, and what specifically do they do?

Question 15

Information from your body (muscles, organs, and glands) come through which hindbrain region?

Question 16

The cerebellum is located where in your brain?

Question 17

What is the cerebellum important for?

Question 18

Name the 3 parts of the midbrain that are described, and what are they involved in?

Question 19

What part of your brain is associated with “higher order” or more “human” features?

Question 20

What does the thalamus do?

Question 21

What evidence is there for the importance of the thalamus to memory?

Question 22

What activities are the hypothalamus involved in? How do we know that?

Question 23

What happens when the basal ganglia is damaged, and what does this tell us about what the basal ganglia does?

Question 24

What condition can be treated by targeting regions associated with the basal ganglia?

Question 25

The Hippocampus is involved in what important processes?

Question 26

The Amygdalae are traditonally associated with what? What evidence is there for this?

Question 27

What is a more modern representation of the role of the Amygdalae?

Question 28

What are sulci and gyri? Why do we think we have them?

Question 29

The brain is split into hemispheres (halves) conntected by what structure? Why might you sever this? What happens when you do?

Question 30

What are the 4 lobes of the cortex? Label diagram.

Question 31

Where is the primary motor cortex? Label diagram.

Question 32

What order is your motor cortex organised in?

Question 33

Which body parts have larger representations in the motor cortex? why?

Question 34

What techniques might you use to understand the motor cortex?

Question 35

The DLPFC is involved in what types of cognitive functions?

Question 36

Where is the Somatosensory cortext? Label on diagram.

Question 37

What does the somatosensory cortex do? How do we know?

Question 38

How is the Somatosensory cortex comparable to the Motor cortex?

Question 39

What else does the parietal lobe do? How do we know?

Question 40

Where does visual information get processed in the brain? Label diagram.

Question 41

What is cortical blindess? What makes it different to other forms of blindess?

Question 42

Where does auditory information get processed in the brain?

Question 43

What’s the name of the brain region involved in face detection? Where is it? Label diagram.

Question 44

Damage to the temporal lobes can cause a few different conditions, name them and describe (if possible).

Question 45

What are the two areas associated with language that are described? What are they each invovled in?

Question 46

Describe and compare the two tpes of aphasias discussed.

Question 47

What are some of the problems associated with taking a purely neurobiological approach to understanding the brain?