Exam 23: Extension: A - Brain Development and Plasticity

The main changes in the visual system following monocular deprivation in kittens are seen at the level of the:

Hubel and Wiesel sewed a kitten's eye shut for a time. After the eye was allowed to open again it:

Neuroimaging studies of children with childhood - onset schizophrenia show a _____ in cortical gray volume.

In terms of escaping with minimal effects of brain damage on language, the BEST age to incur the damage would be:

The number of synapses in the human cerebral cortex is approximately:

Some behavioral abilities do not emerge until adolescence because:

Migrating neuroblasts are guided by:

The major language areas in the brain are located in the:

Which of the following would appear earliest in the developmental sequence?

In adults, aphasia develops about _____ percent of the time with right - hemisphere damage.

Early damage to the medial temporal area is MOST likely to be noticed in:

The two events that take place in the development of a dendrite are _____ and the growth of dendritic spines.

A study of Romanian orphans showed that infants adopted at 18 months or older tended to have IQs that were _____ points lower than average.

Some cortical areas are myelinated as early as age:

According to Epstein, the human brain exhibits several growth spurts. The last of these occurs at about age:

Kolb and colleagues demonstrated that tactile stimulation following lesions of the frontal cortex resulted in which of the following?

Myelination of the human cortex continues until about _____ years of age.

Dendrite growth differs from axonal growth in that:

In humans, synaptic density is greatest at about age:

Exposure to an enriched environment increases brain size. This size increase is related to each of these EXCEPT: