Exam 21: Extension: C - Spatial Behavior

You see a patient in clinic who exhibits an inability to represent the location of objects with respect to herself. This deficit would be termed:

The hypothesis stating that gender differences in spatial abilities are due to hormonal changes during puberty is supported by research done with individuals with which chromosomal abnormality?

A study conducted by Smith and Milner examined spatial abilities for patients with both left and right temporal damage. With respect to spatial memory, identify the pattern of results.

The studies conducted on food caching in birds demonstrates that:

Moving toward a cue or object (route following) is also called:

Self - movement cues are apparently used by animals when they are using _____ to guide their movements.

Goldman - Rakic and coworkers found that there is a spatial impairment in the visual detection deficits observed in monkeys with _____ lobe lesions.

According to Maguire's research with London cab drivers, we store cognitive maps of our environment in the _____.

The form of topographic disorientation in which individuals cannot use prominent environmental features for orientation is called _____.

Research by Maguire and others suggests that females are more likely to use _____ in navigation than are males.

Patients with heading disorientation are unable to plan a course of direction, despite being able to describe where they want to go. This disorder is associated with lesions to which brain region?

A relative inability to shift visual attention is characteristic of _____ syndrome and usually involves damage to the _____ lobe.

_____ memory is the name given to the ability to move through space from one place to another.

Which is NOT a brain region where place cells have been found to exist?

Which is NOT a type of cell discovered in the hippocampus and thought to play a role in spatial behavior?