Learning Check 2 Flashcards
Neurons that respond to specific details or parts that make up objects are called
feature detectors
Which of the following statements best describes how neurons communicate with one another?
A chemical process takes place at the synapse that has resulted from a chemical-electrical change within the neuron.
The _____ lobe of the cortex serves higher cognitive functions such as problem solving, decision making, attention, and information processing.
frontal
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.
parietal
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
in different primary areas of the cortex.
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.
distributed
Which of the following do PET and fMRI have in common?
The use of the subtraction technique
The way patterns of neural firing represents a specific stimulus or experience is known as
the neural code
A synapse is
the space between neurons
The idea of a grandmother cell is consistent with
specificity coding
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
Broca’s area
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
picket fence
The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as
cognitive neuroscience
The occipital lobe is
the first place in the cerebral cortex where visual information is received
The fusiform face area (FFA) in the brain is often damaged in patients with
prosopagnosia
Which of the following is not consistent with the idea of localization of function?
Stimuli are processed throughout various primary and associative areas of the brain.
Sarah has experienced brain damage making it difficult for her to understand spatial layout. Which area of her brain has most likely sustained damage?
Parahippocampal place area (PPA)
Damage to Wernicke’s area is in which lobe of the brain?
Temporal
Shinkareva et al. (2008) conducted research mind reading that revealed
a computer could fairly accurately predict what category of object a participant was viewing.
When recording from a single neuron, stimulus intensity is represented in a single neuron by the
firing rate of the action potentials
