Misc. Flashcards
What is prosapognasia
When you can’t identify faces
What is the condition called where you can’t recognise faces
Prosapognasia
What is anhedonia
When you can’t feel happiness
What is the condition called where you can’t feel happiness
Anhedonia
What type of attachment would an infant have to have an enlarged amygdala
Insecure attachment
What effect does having an insecure attachment have on an infants brain
Enlarged amygdala
What part of the brain is larger for London taxi drivers
Hippocampus
Why do London taxi drivers have bigger hippocampus’s
Because they have to use their memory a lot more so it is adapted like that over time
What affect does autism have on your brain structure
Larger brain
What is the criteria for a visual motion area
Where there is a collection of different brain functionings that work together to create motion
Where would motion direction selective cells be found in the brain
V5
What is commonly found in the V5 of the brain
Motor direction selective cells
Where is the human visual motion area in the brain
MT/MT+/hv5
When patients who have BPD experience anger, what unusual part of their brain is associated with the feeling
The area that creates the feeling of happiness
What do EEG’s and fMRI scans tell you and what do they not
They tell you the area of activity and how much of it there is but it doesn’t tell you what the actual process is
