Exam 2: Neuroscience As a Basis for Adult Development

It is now widely accepted that bilateral activation in the aging brain is

One of the most significant findings in the neuroscience literature is the observed __________ of neural activation patterns in older adults' brain activity when compared with the brain functioning of younger adults.

Processing speed __________as people age.

The method called DTI results in an index of the structural health of _______________ .

Which researcher examined the relationships between brain functioning and emotion?

Which of the following approaches attempts to link measures of cognitive performance to measures of brain functioning?

Research methods that focus on age-related changes in the brain allow us to better understand why certain cognitive functions, such as well-practiced tasks, vocabulary, and wisdom, can be in old age.

The National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource supplies researchers with neural stem cells that are obtained from

Park and Reuter-Lorenz argue that the integrative approach provided by the STAC model embraces a "lifelong potential for plasticity and the ability to __________ age-related changes."

Behavioral perspective research has suggested that basic cognitive processes affected by aging can be improved through __________ and ___________ to multiple levels of functioning as long as the basic functions are shared across tasks.

Older adults compensate for brain changes by ___________ of the brain than young adults when performing the same tasks.

Neuroimaging has allowed us to

The areas of the brain related to sensory functions, such as the visual cortex, show relatively little

The study of the structure of the brain is called ______________ .

The HAROLD model indicates that older brains recruit additional neural units to increase attentional resources, processing speed, or

Older adults sometimes show reduced activation of appropriate prefrontal regions.At other times, they show the same or greater recruitment of these areas, when compared with younger adults, depending on the task they are doing.This indicates that prefrontal recruitment is

What is the default network of the brain and how is it related to poorer performance of cognitive tasks in older adults?

The white matter area of the brain shows deterioration with increasing age.A neuroimaging method called __________ assesses the rate and direction that water diffuses through the white matter.

STAC stands for

The neurocorrelational approach attempts to link measures ___________ of performance to measures of brain _____________or functioning.