Week 1

Question 1

Coronal Plane

Answer 1

Divides into ANTERIOR and POSTERIOR. (Front and Back)

Question 2

Horizontal Plane

Answer 2

Divides into DORSAL and VENTRAL. (Top and Bottom).

Question 3

Sagittal Plane

Answer 3

Divides in LEFT and RIGHT.

Question 4

Lateral

Answer 4

Away from the midline.

Question 5

Medial

Answer 5

Close to the midline.

Question 6

Structure

Answer 6

Tells us about the morphology or form of things.

Question 7

Function

Answer 7

Tells us about activity.

Question 8

Invasive

Answer 8

Typically breaks the skin.

Question 9

Spatial Resolution

Answer 9

How precisely can you determine WHERE something is occurred. Higher the spatial resolution, the more precise. Smaller the region, higher the spatial resolution.

Question 10

Temporal Resolution

Answer 10

How precisely can you determine WHEN something happened. Higher the temporal resolution, more precise. Smaller the interval, higher the temporal resolution.

Question 11

Correlation vs. Causation

Answer 11

Two things can be correlated but that doesn’t mean X causes Y. Or it possibly could be a coincidence. To determine whether X cause Y, take away X because Y should stop happening if X was the cause.

Question 12

Behavioural Response.

Answer 12

Psychophysics - how the physical stuff in the world influences our brain and our response.

Question 13

Stimulating/disrupting activity

Answer 13

Messes with the underlying activity of the brain which we can use to observe what affect that has on a specific behaviour that is being studied. Also known as virtual or temporary lesion.

Question 14

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Answer 14

Zap current through the coils which sends a magnetic pulse into the brain, which disrupts the activity due to the brain using electric currents. Can either do a single or repetitive pulse.
Permits casual inference about the necessity of a specific brain region for performing a given task.

Question 15

fMRI Subtraction Method

Answer 15

Averaging together all of the images during the ‘on’ stage and subtracting it from the ‘off’ stages.

Question 16

EEG

Answer 16

Uses electrical currents to see brain activity I’m specific parts of the brain, however has very low spatial resolution as it just measures the surface of the brain. Only reports correlations.