Exam 21: Extension: A - Spatial Behavior

A neuron that reliably reacts with a burst of activity at regular intervals as an animal moves through the environment would BEST be classified as a:

Research on sex - related differences in spatial ability suggests that, when traveling, men are likely to use ______, whereas women preferentially use ______.

Gross disability in finding one's way about is termed:

When the brain activity of London taxi drivers was recorded using PET while they described driving specific routes, a selective activation was observed in the:

Most cases of Bálint syndrome involve:

Activity of head - direction cells is likely to contribute significantly to:

In order to use dead reckoning, nonhuman animals use:

The typical male advantage on spatial tasks is about:

A patient who experiences no difficulties finding her way around the home where she lived for most of her adult life but becomes spatially disoriented in her most recent home can be said to be suffering from _____ disorientation.

The failure to identify individual landmarks while retaining the ability to identify the classes of objects to which the landmarks belong is an example of:

Patients lacking the ability to navigate using environmental cues to orient themselves are said to suffer from:

The ability to replace objects on a table in their previous position is impaired by damage to the:

Damage to the monkey's dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (principal sulcus) region impairs behavior requiring:

Females with Turner's syndrome do not produce ______ and have ______.

The mental representation of the parts of the environment beyond one's outstretched fingers is referred to as a:

Our capacity to successfully navigate from one place in our environment to another depends on the ability known as:

A rat that finds its way around a radial arm maze by following odor trails left by other rats is engaging in:

A neuron that reliably reacts with a burst of activity whenever a rat is near the response lever in its test cage would be classified as a:

In the study by Maguire and colleagues, increases in the volume of gray matter in the right posterior hippocampus were positively correlated with the:

The hippocampus appears to be somewhat larger in those species of birds that: