lectures 3/4

Question 1

lesion to primary motor area means

Answer 1

paralysis

Question 2

lesion to motor association area means

Answer 2

apraxia

Question 3

lesion to primary sensory area means

Answer 3

poor localization of sensory stimuli

Question 4

lesion to sensory association area means

Answer 4

tactical agnosia (can’t interpret significant of sensory info)

Question 5

taste comes from

Answer 5

insula (gustatory)

Question 6

parietal association area

Answer 6

attention
self awareness
awareness of personal space

Question 7

temporal association area

Answer 7

recognition (music, language, people)

Question 8

lesion to temporal association means

Answer 8

agnosia (inability to recognize)

Question 9

T/F visual stimuli linked to meaning and recognition

Answer 9

true

Question 10

prosopagnosia

Answer 10

medial temporal lobe

know faces

Question 11

frontal association area

Answer 11

direct/maintain attention 
problem solving 
calm 
planning
regulate emotion expression

Question 12

broca aphasia

Answer 12

motor aphasia (expression)
not fluent

Question 13

wernike aphasia

Answer 13

sensory aphasia

not comprehending, non sense

Question 14

conduction aphasia

Answer 14

can’t repeat words

comprehension / production is ok

Question 15

thalamus

Answer 15

gate keeper for cortex

prioritizes info

Question 16

neuroplasticty

Answer 16

observable change neuron structure / function

Question 17

measuring neuroplasticity

Answer 17

individual neurons and population of neurons

Question 18

facilitators of brain plasticity

Answer 18

redundancy
unmasking
distributed processes
dynamic connectivity

Question 19

redundancy

Answer 19

more than one brain area can support the function (write w toes)

Question 20

unmasking

Answer 20

neurons are silent until injury

Question 21

distributed processes

Answer 21

functions not localized in one area

Question 22

dynamic connectivity

Answer 22

form new connection

Question 23

what can induce plasticity

Answer 23

hormones
drugs
disease
injury
experience

Question 24

principals of experience dependent plasticity

Answer 24

use it or lose it
use it and improve it
specific 
repetion 
intensity