T1 L23: Association, Cortices, and complex brain functions

Question 1

What are the 3 multimodal association areas?

Answer 1

Posterior, temporal, and prefrontal association areas

Question 2

What is the posterior association area for?

Answer 2

Perception and language

Question 3

What is the temporal association area for?

Answer 3

Emotion and memory

Question 4

What is the prefrontal association area for?

Answer 4

Executive functions

Question 5

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 5

When someone can’t recognise faces (Face blindness)

Question 6

What is visual agnosia?

Answer 6

a condition in which a person can see but cannot recognize or interpret visual information, due to a disorder in the parietal lobes.

Question 7

What is anosognosia?

Answer 7

Being unaware of your own mental condition (agnosia for your own illness)

Question 8

What are the 2 language specific areas of the brain?

Answer 8

Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area

Question 9

What is the Wada procedure for?

Answer 9

Used to determine the hemisphere dominant for speech

Question 10

What are the symptoms of Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 10

Cannot speak but understand everything

Question 11

What are the symptoms of Wernicke’s aphasia?

Answer 11

Fluent speech but poor comprehension