Deck 15: Essay

Question 1

Describe the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.What does it measure? What types of brain lesions impair performance on this test?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is neuroeconomics? What has neuroeconomics taught us about decision making?

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

What are mirror neurons? Why were researchers so excited about them? What does more recent research and opinion tell us about them?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Describe the symptoms you would observe in a patient with a lesion to the parietal association cortex in the left and right hemispheres.

Question 5

What is functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI)? What does it allow researchers to study?

Question 6

What is a psychological construct? Why is it difficult to study psychological constructs in the brain?

Question 7

Describe the tasks that the left side of the brain does better than the right.

Question 8

What is important about syntax in regard to thought processes? What happens if a person never learns to develop syntax?

Question 9

Why is language presumed to give humans a cognitive advantage over other species?

Question 10

What is extinction? How is it related to contralateral neglect?

Question 11

What have studies in split-brain patients taught us about language?

Question 12

Describe the tasks that the right side of the brain does better than the left.

Question 13

What is theory of mind? What brain structures are thought to support theory of mind?

Question 14

Describe the anatomical asymmetries in the human brain.

Question 15

Describe the symptoms you would observe in a patient with a lesion to the temporal association cortex.

Question 16

What areas of the brain would you use if you were planning a last-minute trip? What role does each area play?

Question 17

What is contralateral neglect? What are its primary symptoms?

Question 18

What brain regions contribute to the control of attention?

Question 19

What are cell assemblies? Why did Hebb think that they were so important?

Question 20

Why was Alex the parrot so unusual?

Question 21

If a split-brain patient was presented with the word spoon in the left visual field and the word fork in the right visual field,how would the patient describe what he saw? How could the researcher demonstrate what the right hemisphere knows about the words that were presented?

Question 22

What is dichotic listening? What discoveries regarding cerebral asymmetry were made using this technique?

Question 23

What techniques can be used to demonstrate functional asymmetry in the healthy brain?

Question 24

What is the neural basis of consciousness? Why is consciousness so hard to study?

Question 25

List the tasks that are better performed by females than males.

Question 26

What tasks are better performed by either males or females? Why might these sex differences in cognition have evolved in the first place?

Question 27

What is synesthesia? Give examples of some documented types of synesthesia.

Question 28

Describe the symptoms that follow left and right parietal injury.

Question 29

Differentiate between divergent and convergent intelligence.What brain regions are associated with each of them?