Week 2: Part 1

Question 1

what is cognitive neuroscience?

Answer 1

Study of the physiological basis of cognition (mentalprocesses)

Question 2

relevance of Camillo Golgi?

Answer 2

he found the staining technique, which involves getting a thin slice of the brain

Question 3

Ramon y Cajal?

Answer 3

found the neural doctrine, which is individual cells can transmit signals in the nervous system - cells are not continuous with other cells - Individual neurons communicate with other neurons to form neural circuits

Question 4

parietal lobe?

Answer 4

skin senses

Question 5

temporal lobe?

Answer 5

sound

Question 6

occipital lobe?

Answer 6

vision

Question 7

frontal lobe?

Answer 7

all senses

Question 8

prosopagnosia?

Answer 8

inability to recognize faces

Question 9

what is a fMRI?

Answer 9

creates images of structures within the brain, detecting tumors and other abnormalities, doesn’t indicate neural activity

Question 10

Paul Broca?

Answer 10

area in frontal lobe specialized for producing language, difficulty making sentences with damage to Broca’s area - Broca’s aphasia

Question 11

Carl Wernicke?

Answer 11

difficult underling language due to damage on temporal lobe area, wernicke’s aphasia