Portaal 2 Flashcards

1
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Larger brain than average

A

autistic people

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2
Q

Brain slice along horizontal plane

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axial

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3
Q

posterior aspect of the brain

A

caudal

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4
Q

dips/folds in brain

A

sulci

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5
Q

Neocortex consists of

A

6 main cortical layers

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6
Q

lateral dividing line between frontal and temporal lobes

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Sylvian Fissure

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7
Q

Island of cortex buried underneath temporal lobe

A

insula

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8
Q

brodmann area 17

A

primary visual cortex

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9
Q

part of limbic system involved most in the detection of fearful or threatening stimuli

A

amygdala

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10
Q

Disorders of the basal ganglia can be characterized as

A

hypo/hyper kinetic

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11
Q

Hypothalmus is primarily concerned with

A

regulation of the body

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12
Q

Inferior Colliculli are specialized for

A

Auditory Processing

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13
Q

Fluid filling brain’s ventricals

A

CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF)

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14
Q

GABA

A

inhibitory

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15
Q

White matter tract, connecting cortical structures across different hemispheres

A

Commissure

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16
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Piagets stage where children learn abou the nature of objects, as well as the nature of cause and effect

A

sensorimotor

17
Q

Gottliebs’ bidirectional relationship between experience and brain structure/genes

A

Probablistic Development

18
Q

Prefrontal- auditory-visual

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19
Q

Most strongly heritable brain feature

A

total brain volume

20
Q

Genetic Disorder, deleted segment of chromosome 7

A

William’s Syndrome

21
Q

Gene linked with speech acquisition

A

FOXP2

22
Q

People seek environments depending on genotype

A

gene-environment correlation

23
Q

Volume of Caudate Nucleus correlates with

A

level of orofacial dyspraxia

24
Q

alleles of COMT (i.c.m. cannabis) may explain

A

small part of schizofrenia development

25
Q

ERP’s are constructed by

A

averaging time-locked portions of EEG

26
Q

Grandmother Cell

A

multi-modal

27
Q

Neurons representing information via greater synchronization of firing across different neurons for a given stimulus

A

Temporal coding

28
Q

ERP Parlance N400

A

negative peak at 400ms

29
Q

Digit Probe Task - separate processing stages

A

encoding/comparing/decision/responding

30
Q

N170

A

human faces/animal faces/cartoon smiley faces

31
Q

common way of solving inverse problem

A

Dipole modelling

32
Q

Magnetic Field in MRI is measured in

A

Tesla

33
Q

Primary images of interest formed in a functional MRI experiment

A

T2*