The Brain Flashcards
To obtain a scan using ___, a patient is injected with (or ingests) a low, harmless dose of a short-lived radioactive glucose.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
The ___ cortex covers the two hemispheres and serves as the body’s information-processing center.
Cerebral
In ___, a strong magnet is used to produce scans that allow scientists to distinguish among different types of soft tissue in the brain.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Higher-level thinking is primarily the responsibility of the ___ lobes.
Frontal
Which technique would be MOST useful for detecting the brain areas that are especially active as a person performs mathematical calculations?
A PET scan
A neuroscientist asks a human participant to extend her leg at the knee. EEG recordings of the participant’s brain activity should show increased activity from the scalp over the ___ lobe.
Frontal
Brent is taking part in an experiment in a cognitive neuroscience lab. Silently, he reads rapid sequences of words flashed on a computer screen. The electrical activity of his brain is simultaneously recorded through skull electrodes. The technique used in this study is…
An Electroencephalograph (EEG)
The rear of the brain is to the front of the brain as the ___ lobe is to the ___ lobe.
Occipital; frontal
After suffering an accidental brain injury, Kylie has difficulty walking in a smooth, coordinated manner. It is likely that she has suffered damage to her ___.
Cerebellum
Darnell underwent surgery to control his severe epilepsy. Now, however, Darnell cannot form new memories of his experiences although he does remember events in the past. Most likely, the surgery destroyed a portion of the ___ in Darnell’s brain.
Hippocampus
Dr. Wilson is a neuropsychologist who works with postsurgical patients who have had surgery to sever their corpus callosums (to reduce severe seizures). When she presents the word SAL-TED to one patient, “SAL” transmits to his left visual field and “TED” to his right visual field. She then asks him to tell her what he saw. The patient will say ___.
TED
Dr. Sharon is a neurosurgeon working with patients who have major epileptic seizures. The part of the brain Dr. Sharon should sever to help reduce his patients’ seizures is the ___.
Corpus Callosum
