HPS111 - Week 4 Flashcards
What is the relationship between brain mass and intelligence?
What is the Encephalisation quotient? Why is this useful?
Where is the Cerebral cortex? How is this difference in humans compared to other animals?
What are the ways we can understand the relationship between brain and behaviour?
Why are accidents and disease a limited approach to understanding the function of brain areas?
Wha are examples of invasive and non-invasive techniques? Why might you use one or another?
When would it be appropirate to use EEG?
EEG and MRI differ in spatial and temporal resolution. Define these concepts and note which technique is better in each?
What makes PET different from MRI?
What is TMS? What is it useful for?
What is DBS? In what cirumstances would DBS be used?
What are parts of the Hindbrain?
What part of the brain is responsible for breathing and heart rate?
There are two parts of your brain described as being invovled in sleep, what parts are they, and what specifically do they do?
Information from your body (muscles, organs, and glands) come through which hindbrain region?
The cerebellum is located where in your brain?
What is the cerebellum important for?
Name the 3 parts of the midbrain that are described, and what are they involved in?
What part of your brain is associated with “higher order” or more “human” features?
What does the thalamus do?
What evidence is there for the importance of the thalamus to memory?
What activities are the hypothalamus involved in? How do we know that?
What happens when the basal ganglia is damaged, and what does this tell us about what the basal ganglia does?
What condition can be treated by targeting regions associated with the basal ganglia?
The Hippocampus is involved in what important processes?
The Amygdalae are traditonally associated with what? What evidence is there for this?
What is a more modern representation of the role of the Amygdalae?
What are sulci and gyri? Why do we think we have them?
The brain is split into hemispheres (halves) conntected by what structure? Why might you sever this? What happens when you do?
What are the 4 lobes of the cortex? Label diagram.
Where is the primary motor cortex? Label diagram.
What order is your motor cortex organised in?
Which body parts have larger representations in the motor cortex? why?
What techniques might you use to understand the motor cortex?
The DLPFC is involved in what types of cognitive functions?
Where is the Somatosensory cortext? Label on diagram.
What does the somatosensory cortex do? How do we know?
How is the Somatosensory cortex comparable to the Motor cortex?
What else does the parietal lobe do? How do we know?
Where does visual information get processed in the brain? Label diagram.
What is cortical blindess? What makes it different to other forms of blindess?
Where does auditory information get processed in the brain?
What’s the name of the brain region involved in face detection? Where is it? Label diagram.
Damage to the temporal lobes can cause a few different conditions, name them and describe (if possible).
What are the two areas associated with language that are described? What are they each invovled in?
Describe and compare the two tpes of aphasias discussed.
What are some of the problems associated with taking a purely neurobiological approach to understanding the brain?
