Exam 14: Cognitive Functions

The brain has ____ control of the trunk muscles.

People with Williams syndrome develop language slowly at first, and their ____ continues to be odd, like that of someone who learned a second language late in life.

Generally speaking, drugs used to treat epilepsy work by:

A symptom of right-hemisphere parietal lobe damage is the tendency to ignore the:

One way to test the hypothesis that people are biologically adapted to learn best during a critical period is to:

If a split-brain patient sees the word "sky" in his left visual field and the word "scraper" in his right visual field, which picture will he draw with the left hand?

Split-brain patients suffer:

Nonfluent aphasia, in which the victim is unable to speak fluently, is due to brain damage that includes:

Which of the following senses sends input only to the ipsilateral hemisphere?

Broca's aphasia is most likely to affect use of the ____ class of words.

Children are asked to feel two fabrics and to determine whether they are the same or different. This is more difficult for ____ children who have to feel the fabrics with ____.

People born without a corpus callosum can perform many tasks in which split-brain patients fail.

Describe some of the research conducted in nonhuman's dealing with language.

After damage to the right hemisphere, many people suffer what kind of loss?

Studies of nonhuman language abilities seem to indicate that human language may have evolved from a precursor that was probably:

Someone who suffered damage to the visual cortex of the left hemisphere would probably have impaired vision in the:

Which of the following is true regarding left-handed individuals?

Epilepsy is caused by genes that alter:

Observations of Williams syndrome indicate that language is not simply a by-product of overall intelligence.

On average, right-handers turned mostly to the left, and ____ turn mostly to the ____.