Practice Questions Flashcards
Which peak in electrical brain activity measured by EEG demonstrates a syntactic overlap between music and language (Patel et al., 1998)?
P600 component
What region of the brain is most closely associated with memory for space?
Hippocampus
How does transcranial direct current stimulation work?
The electrical stimulation makes neurons more likely or less likely to fire
Which approach has traditionally been more concerned with functional rather than anatomical dissociations?
Cognitive neuropsychology
In a non-lesioned, healthy brain there is over-attention to the left side of space. What term is used to describe this phenomenon?
Pseudo-neglect
The secondary auditory cortex is know as what?
- known as a belt region
- known as a parabelt region
What are the characteristics of “lack of awareness” in neglect?
- Lack of awareness is not restricted to vision
- Whole objects may be processed implicitly
Which of the following is a typical finding in a lexical decision task?
A. Non-words are easier to identify than words because the letter string is scrambled
B. Non-words take longer to identify than words
C. The reaction times are proportionate on how faster you press the buttons
D. Recognition accuracy does not distinguish between words and non-words
B. Non-words take longer to identify than words
Split-brain patients are most likely to have difficulties in reading in which hemisfield?
left
Amodal symbols have the ‘Symbol Grounding Problem’ because:
A. Amodal symbols are arbitrary and can refer to any meaning
B. Amodal symbols are grounded in perceptual symbols
C. Amodal symbols are derived from the central language processing unit
D. Amodal symbols are grounded in binary codes which are for computers
A. Amodal symbols are arbitrary and can refer to any meaning
Which of the following reading errors characterise phonological dyslexia?
A. Reading CAKE as ‘sake’
B. Reading CAT as ‘dog’
C. Reading SALT as ‘slat’
D. Reading SURT as ‘hurt’
D. Reading SURT as ‘hurt’
Which of the following is NOT a likely function of the dorsal pathway of speech perception?
A. Connecting with speech production
B. Speech localization
C. Speech repetition
D. Speech comprehension
D. Speech comprehension
According to Belin et al. (2000) the superior temporal sulcus responded more strongly to:
A. NonSpeech over Speech
B. Speech over NonSpeech
C. Voices over NonVocal Sounds
D. NonVocal sounds over Voices
C. Voices over NonVocal Sounds
The task where participants need to decide, as quickly as possible, whether a letter string forms a meaningful word is called:
A. A stroop task
B. A lexical decision task
C. A reading span task
D. A naming task
B. A lexical decision task
The ventral route in speech perception is primarily concerned with what?
A. Translating auditory input to motor codes
B. Understanding the intentions of the speaker
C. Processing the meaningful content of speech
D. Learning to understand degraded speech
C. Processing the meaningful content of speech
