Exam 6: The Cerebral Cortex and Our Divided Brain

The inability to recognize familiar faces even though one can clearly see and describe features of the faces is associated with damage to the ________ lobes.

The benefits of brain plasticity are most clearly demonstrated in

Brain plasticity may contribute to the effectiveness of

Which of the following body parts is associated with the greatest amount of brain tissue in the motor cortex?

Left-handedness is ________ common than usual among mathematicians and ________ common than usual among artists.

A laboratory cat could be made to twitch its whiskers by direct stimulation of the ________ lobes of its cerebral cortex.

When a person speaks, brain waves and bloodflow are especially likely to reveal increased activity in the

The motor cortex is located in the ________ lobes.

The increasing complexity of animals' behavior is accompanied by an

A picture of a dog is briefly flashed in the left visual field of a split-brain patient. At the same time a picture of a boy is flashed in the right visual field. In identifying what she saw, the patient would be most likely to

An experimenter flashes the word FLYTRAP onto a screen facing a split-brain patient so that FLY projects to her right hemisphere and TRAP to her left hemisphere. When asked what she saw, the patient will

The auditory hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in their

The ability to simultaneously copy different figures with the right and left hand is most characteristic of those whose ________ has been cut.

The visual cortex is activated when blind people read Braille. This best illustrates

The regions of the parietal lobes that are involved in mathematical and spatial reasoning are known as

The process of forming new neurons within the brain is called

Cortical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory, motor, or language functions are

One function of glial cells is to

The association areas are located in

The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to ________.