Exam 15: How Does the Brain Think 

A key difference between human language and language in chimpanzees is that:

Throwing an object accurately at a moving object is unique to:

DTI studies have revealed that the male brain has more_____, whereas the female brain has more _____.

A patient with damage to the medial left temporal lobe might have problems with:

A study by Goldstein and colleagues observed that women have larger _____, whereas men have larger _____.

Oliver Sacks describes an 11-year-old boy who was deaf and was never taught sign language. The purpose of this example was to illustrate the importance of:

The _____ is critical for object recognition, whereas the _____ is critical for vision for action.

Why was Alex the parrot so unusual?

What brain regions are implicated in one's ability to attend to various stimuli?

What is NOT an example of a case in which individuals lack conscious awareness of particular information but process the information unconsciously?

Using rs-fMRI, scientists have identified approximately _____ networks.

In a study by Newsome and associates, monkeys were trained to discriminate directions of motion while researchers recorded from single neurons in area V5 that were sensitive to a specific direction of motion. According to the results of this experiment, which of the following options would result in the highest firing rate in a V5 neuron?

Kimura (1967) observed that participants who were asked to remember a series of digits tended to do better when the digits were presented:

Humans with damage to visual area V4 can no longer see:

A patient cannot read, and she has difficulty copying movements and generating the names of objects and animals. The most likely site of the lesion is the _____ lobe.

Since Henry's recent stroke, he has had a great deal of difficulty navigating around unfamiliar environments such doctor's offices and shopping malls. Henry most likely has damage to his:

Anomalous speech representation is a condition in which an individual's speech is located in:

Hilda suffered a recent brain injury and is showing symptoms of contralateral neglect. Discuss the symptoms Hilda is most likely experiencing and the tests used to identify neglect.

A patient with poor visual memory might have damage to:

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