Exam 17: Extension: C - Cortical Networks and Disconnection Syndromes

Which sense has no crossed connections from the sense organ, and its interhemispheric connections are via the anterior commissure?

The patients studied by Sperry and his colleagues had undergone commissurotomy as a radical treatment for _____.

Which of the following fiber pathways is considered a commissural pathway?

Typically, if you placed a common object in his or her right hand, a blindfolded commissurotomy patient would:

Your patient can name odors presented to the left nostril but not to the right. You suspect damage to the _____.

Which is true of information processed during dichotic - listening experiments?

_____ is the name of the aphasic syndrome that is the result of a disconnection between the anterior and posterior speech zones.

The condition that results from severing the anterior commissure is called _____.

Who further developed the Dejerine and Liepmann concept of "disconnexion syndromes"?

Preilowski (1975) performed an experiment in which he required commissurized patients to draw a diagonal line using the popular children's toy Etch A Sketch. What was being tested in this experiment?

Geschwind hypothesized that individuals who show right - hand apraxia have damage to which region or regions of the brain?

The anterior portion of the corpus callosum is called the _____.

The incidence rate of agenesis of the corpus callosum is:

The _____ lobe has the fewest interhemispheric connections.

Downer's experiment with monkeys involved lesions to the _____.