Neurocognition

Question 1

a disruption in one component of mental functioning but no impairment of another

Answer 1

dissociation

Question 2

requires 2 patients with opposite or reciprocal deficits

Answer 2

double dissociation

Question 3

sends and receives signals throughout the CNS and PNS

Answer 3

basic function of a neuron

Question 4

gateway to the cortex, almost all messages entering the cortex come through the thalamus into the neocortex, the ability to coordinate info from the different parts of the brain (remembering who said what)

Answer 4

thalamus

Question 5

just above the thalamus, primary bridge across which messages pass between the left and right halves of the cortex, allows the two halves of the brain to communicate and pass info between each other

Answer 5

corpus callosum

Question 6

located immediately interior to the temporal lobes, crucial in LTM processes, especially conscious memory

Answer 6

hippocampus

Question 7

Neocortex is divided into two mirror-image halves, the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The right hemisphere of the brain receives its input from the left side of the body and controls the left side. Likewise, the left hemisphere receives input from and controls output to the right side of the body. Ie: people who have a stroke on the left side of the body will often have some paralysis in the right half of the body

Answer 7

contralaterality

Question 8

each hemisphere tends to specialize in different abilities and tends to process different types of information. Ie: left-hemisphere specializes in language processing, right-hemisphere is more specialized for nonverbal, spatial, and more perceptual information processing

Answer 8

hemispheric specialization

Question 9

patients who have a severed corpus callosum, when given a pencil, they would be able to demonstrate how to correctly use the pencil but wouldn’t be able to name the object as a pencil (hemispheric specialization)

Answer 9

split brain patient

Question 10

less invasive in measuring neural activity, measures brain wave patterns using electroencephalogram recordings

Answer 10

EEG

Question 11

evaluates the momentary changes in electrical activity of the brain when a particular stimulus is presented to them

Answer 11

ERP

Question 12

rather than injecting a person with a radioactive isotope, the MRI magnet is used to isolate molecules such as oxygen to assess where increased blood is flowing in the brain, thereby indicating heightened neural activity

Answer 12

fMRI

Question 13

measures metabolic processes, such as blood flow

Answer 13

fMRI and PET scans