Sections III

Question 1

Parietal Lobe

Answer 1

-Somatosensory association area -Parietotemporal association area

Question 2

Parietal Lobe - Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Answer 2

-Surface of the postcentral gyrus = Trunk, UE, face -Surface of the posterior paracentral gyrus = LE

Question 3

Parietal Lobe - Primary Somatosensory Cortex

-Perception of ____ via the ____ then relays the information to other regions.

Answer 3

Somatosensation

Thalamus

Question 4

Parietal Lobe - Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Termination of ____

Answer 4

Spinothalamic

Dorsal coumn-medial lemniscus

Ventral trigeminothalamic pathways

Question 5

Parietal Lobe - Primary Somatosensory Cortex Injury

What happesn with especially tractile and proprioception. Still have a crude awareness if thalamus intact. Sensory-discriminative aspect of pain is also transmitted to the secondary somatosensory cortex and insula, thus localization may still be possible although intensity and quality?

Answer 5

Loss of somatosensory acuity

Question 6

Parietal Lobe - Secondary Somatosensory Cortex

• Located just inferior to the base of the primary somatosensory cortex and deep inside the lateral sulcus.
• Has representation of ______ along with somatosensory association area with important connections to the insula.
• Area of _______ along with the primary somatosensory cortex

Answer 6

Body image

Pain localization

Question 7

Answer 7

Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Question 8

Parietal Lobe - Secondary Somatosensory Cortex Injury

-Associated with _____

Answer 8

Eating disorders

Question 9

Parietal Lobe - Somatosensory Association Area

-What is putting somatosensory stimuli (tough and proprioception) together to recongize objects?

Answer 9

Stereognosis

Question 10

Parietal Lobe - Somatosensory Association Area Dysfunction

• Lesion: _____
• ______: altered body image - may be associated with eating disorders

Answer 10

Asterogenosis

Altered activity

Question 11

Parietal and Temporal Lobe: Parietotemporal Association Cortex

• Integration of visual, auditory and tactile information ______
• Keeps tract of relationship between the body and the environent, while accounting for ____

Answer 11

Multimodal - Where it is, how it is used?

Attention, motivation, relevance of objects

Question 12

Answer 12

Somatosensory Association Area

Question 13

Answer 13

Somatosensory Association Area

Question 14

Answer 14

Parietotemporal Association Cortex

Question 15

Answer 15

Parietotemporal Association Cortex

Question 16

Parietal & Temporal Lobes - Parietotemporal Association Cortex

• Selective attention focusing on specific aspects of ___ 1
• Shifting changing focus from ____ 2

Answer 16

1) environment
2) One aspect to another

Question 17

Parietal and Temporal Lobes - Parietotemporal Association Cortex

• 1)____ hemisphere dominant for spatial attention
• Right hemisphere able to attend to self and environment ____2
• Left hemisphere only able to attend _____3

Answer 17

1) Right
2) bilaterally
3) contralaterally

Question 18

Parietal and Temporal Lobes - Parietotemporal Association Cortex

• 1____ hemisphere dominant for “nerd area”
• 2______
• 3______
• 4______

Answer 18

1) Left
2) problem solving
3) symbolic language
4) symbolic communication

Question 19

Parietotemporal association cortex - Injury

• 1_____ hemipshere lesion
• 2__________
• Tendency to focus on irrelevant aspects of the environement
• Inability to shift attention or shifting too much

Answer 19

• Right
• Left-sided unilateral neglect

Question 20

Parietotemporal association cortex - Injury

• _______ hemipshere lesion
• Impairment in ________ (easily get lost)

Answer 20

• Right
• Sense of direction

Question 21

Parietotemporal association cortex - Injury

• _____ hemipshere lesion
• Right-sided unilateral neglect possible
• Other attentional issues as with right-sided lesion, but much less pronounced

Answer 21

Left

Question 22

Parietotemporal association cortex - Injury

• ______ Hemipshere lesion
• _________ inability to select or use a tool apporpriately associated with this region.

Answer 22

Left

Sensory apraxia

Question 23

loss of ability to make proper use of an object due to lack of perception of its purpose

• ______ hemipshere
• ______
• _________

Answer 23

Left

Dyslexia

Dyscalculia (is difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers)