Learning Check 2

Question 1

Neurons that respond to specific details or parts that make up objects are called

Answer 1

feature detectors

Question 2

Which of the following statements best describes how neurons communicate with one another?

Answer 2

A chemical process takes place at the synapse that has resulted from a chemical-electrical change within the neuron.

Question 3

The _____ lobe of the cortex serves higher cognitive functions such as problem solving, decision making, attention, and information processing.

Answer 3

frontal

Question 4

A 10-month-old baby is interested in discovering different textures, comparing the touch sensations between a soft blanket and a hard wooden block. Tactile signals such as these are received by the _____ lobe.

Answer 4

parietal

Question 5

You are walking down the street and see a really nice car drive by. You notice many features of it: its color, movement, shape, location, and so forth. All of these features are first processed

Answer 5

in different primary areas of the cortex.

Question 6

When conducting an experiment on how stimuli are represented by the firing of neurons, you notice that neurons respond differently to different faces. For example, Arthur’s face causes three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the most and neuron 3 responding the least. Roger’s face causes the same three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the least and neuron 3 responding the most. Your results support ____ coding.

Answer 6

distributed

Question 7

Which of the following do PET and fMRI have in common?

Answer 7

The use of the subtraction technique

Question 8

The way patterns of neural firing represents a specific stimulus or experience is known as

Answer 8

the neural code

Question 9

A synapse is

Answer 9

the space between neurons

Question 10

The idea of a grandmother cell is consistent with

Answer 10

specificity coding

Question 11

Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure. Josiah may have damage to his

Answer 11

Broca’s area

Question 12

If kittens are raised in an environment that contains only verticals, you would predict that most of the neurons in their visual cortex would respond best to the visual presentation of a

Answer 12

picket fence

Question 13

The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as

Answer 13

cognitive neuroscience

Question 14

The occipital lobe is

Answer 14

the first place in the cerebral cortex where visual information is received

Question 15

The fusiform face area (FFA) in the brain is often damaged in patients with

Answer 15

prosopagnosia

Question 16

Which of the following is not consistent with the idea of localization of function?

Answer 16

Stimuli are processed throughout various primary and associative areas of the brain.

Question 17

Sarah has experienced brain damage making it difficult for her to understand spatial layout. Which area of her brain has most likely sustained damage?

Answer 17

Parahippocampal place area (PPA)

Question 18

Damage to Wernicke’s area is in which lobe of the brain?

Answer 18

Temporal

Question 19

Shinkareva et al. (2008) conducted research mind reading that revealed

Answer 19

a computer could fairly accurately predict what category of object a participant was viewing.

Question 20

When recording from a single neuron, stimulus intensity is represented in a single neuron by the

Answer 20

firing rate of the action potentials