Exam 4: The Brain and Nervous System

A cell that conducts electrochemical signals and is the basic unit of the nervous system is called a:

The patterns of brain activity during mathematical processing are different in native Chinese than in native English speakers.

Which of the following regions in the brain contains the motor cortex, which issues orders to the muscles of the body to produce voluntary movement?

Researchers took photographs of different faces, cut them down the middle vertically, and pasted different halves together to form composite faces. The reconstructed photographs were flashed quickly to split-brain patients. It was found that the split-brain patients would:

A soldier whose best friend has been seriously injured in battle carries the wounded man to safety. After he reaches the medics, he realizes that he, too, is wounded. How could the soldier have carried his friend to safety without noticing the pain from his own wound?

A cell that conducts electrochemical signals and is the basic unit of the nervous system is called a:

List the three main parts of the neuron and explain the role each plays in the transmission of neural communication.

The cerebrum is covered by several thin layers of densely-packed cells known collectively as the corpus callosum.

The brain's ability to change and adapt in response to experience, through neurogenesis, or by reorganizing or growing new neural connections, is called:

Adrenal hormones play an important role in:

Why does the human brain have so many crevices and wrinkles in the cerebral cortex?

_______________ carry orders from the central nervous system to muscles, glands, and internal organs.

Serotonin affects neurons involved in appetite and pain suppression.

The somatic nervous system regulates the functioning of the internal organs.

A surgeon is probing the somatosensory cortex in your brain with a stimulation probe. Which of the following would you most likely experience?

The subdivision of the peripheral nervous system that connects to sensory receptors and to skeletal muscles is called the:

The spinal cord acts as a bridge between the brain and the parts of the body below the neck.

Describe three tasks of the amygdala.

The process by which a neuron gets its message across the synaptic cleft to another cell is best likened to:

The cerebrum is divided into two separate halves that are connected by a large band of fibers called the: