Exam 3: Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience

The model of Kali and Dayan predicted that the maintenance of memories over time would

Which of the following degenerative disorders is believed to have the strongest genetic component?

What is the Stroop effect? Describe a principle of cognition that the task's results reveal.

The term tonotopic refers to the fact that the cochlea and the auditory cortex contain maps that are organized according to the sound frequencies that best stimulate the cells.

Research questions about the time course of cognition are better addressed using methods like ________, whereas questions about the anatomy of cognition are better addressed using methods like ________.

Which of the following methods would best reveal an integrative perspective of the brain and its functionality?

A patient has an injury to the parietal lobe and has a selective deficit in processing information about the spatial location of visual stimuli. You hypothesize that this region of the brain is distinct in function from other visual areas in the temporal lobe, in which you suspect shape perception information is processed. To establish a double dissociation between the two functions and brain regions, you would need to find another person who had damage to the

The Sternberg experiment showed that the amount of time it takes to compare a target item with a list of items in memory increases with the number of items in the memory set. This is an example of parallel processing.

For which disorder have patients benefited from deep-brain stimulation of the basal ganglia?

What are single and double dissociations? Provide an example of a neuropsychological study illustrating each one.