Exam 3: Section 2: Neuroscience and Behavior

The _____ is an extension of the spinal cord into the skull that controls respiration, heart rate, and blood circulation.

The _____ relays and filters information from the senses and transmits the information to the cerebral cortex.

Mirror neurons are active in an animal that:

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is mainly involved in processing auditory information?

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex processes language and contains visual association areas that interpret the meaning of visual stimuli?

The motor cortex is located in the _____ lobe, directly _____ the somatosensory cortex.

Researchers are beginning to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to:

In a series of studies by Meaney and colleagues, rat pups are randomly assigned to be raised by surrogate mothers who spend a lot of time licking and grooming (high LG) them or surrogate mothers who spend little time engaging in this behavior (low GH). Rat pups raised by high LG surrogate grow up to be _____ fearful in novel situations, which can be attributed to a(n) _____ in DNA methylation.

The largest component of the neuron, which coordinates the information-processing tasks and keeps the cell alive, is the:

fMRI is to TMS as:

L-dopa works to stimulate the production of dopamine in the body. In this way, the drug acts as a(n):

The _____, or "little man," is a representation of the amount of somatosensory cortex that resides in the _____ lobe.

Why can the thalamus be compared to a network computer server?

During an action potential, the charge seems to "jump" from node to node rather than flow continuously down the axon, a process known as:

The _____ coordinates information coming into and out of the spinal cord.

Researchers studying opiates such as morphine were surprised that they fit exactly into neural receptors. The reason is that the brain produces its own version of an opiate for pain relief, called:

The term contralateral control refers to the fact that the:

_____ scans are normally used to identify default brain networks, or sets of brain regions that are closely connected to one another when a person is internally focused.

The _____ the damage to the spinal cord, the _____ the prognosis for sensation and movement throughout the body.

_____ help integrate information processed in various areas of the cortex to produce a meaningful understanding.