Temporal Lobe

Question 1

medial temporal lobe?

Answer 1

memory

Question 2

lateral surface of the temporal lobe

Answer 2

auditory center

Question 3

what does damage to the middle/inferior gyrus cause?

Answer 3

impairments in general cognition - visual ventral stream

Question 4

what does damage to the superior temporal gyrus cause?

Answer 4

auditory region
- deafness
- werenickes aphasia
auditory agnosia - difficulty recognizing sound

Question 5

what does damage to the right medial temporal lobe casue?

Answer 5

visual memory impairments

Question 6

what does damage to the left medial temporal lobe cause?

Answer 6

verbal memory impairment - but hearing and language are good

Question 7

what does patient HM tell us about the medial temporal lobe

Answer 7

he had the removal of the MTL
tells us MTL is necessary for LTM - consolidation of recent memories
patients still have some spared memory retention (tower of hanoi/ mirror drawing)

Question 8

impairments such as deafness and werenickes aphasia is due to damage in…

Answer 8

the superior temporal gyrus