Studying The Brain (Module 11/13)

Question 1

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 1

The study of brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).

Question 2

Dual Processing

Answer 2

The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate consciousness

Consciousness and unconscious tracks.

Question 3

Case Studies: Phineas Gage

Answer 3

A railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior.

Question 4

Brain Lesion

Answer 4

Destroys brain tissue to study animal behaviors.

Question 5

Plasticity/ Neuroplasticity

Answer 5

The brain’s ability to modify itself after some type of injury or illness.

Question 6

Left Hemisphere Basics

Answer 6

Processes reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, and comprehension skills.

Question 7

Right Hemisphere Basics

Answer 7

Non-verbal ability, facial recognition, patterns.

Question 8

Split-Brain Research (Michael Gazzaniga, Roger Sperry)

Answer 8

Shows that hemispheres perform different functions (speech is in the left hemisphere).