Deck 7: Spatial Cognition

Question 1

Your uncle knows that the church is south of his house and the grocery store is just to the west of church, but he has trouble understanding his own orientation to navigate to these places.He most likely has this condition:

A)Allocentric disorientation
B)Landmark agnosia
C)Anterograde disorientation
D)Heading disorientation

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Anterograde disorientation is when a patient is unable to construct new representations of environments, and is due to damage to:
A.Lingual gyrus
B.Retrosplenial cortex
C.Parahippocampal gyrus
D.primary visual cortex

Answer 2

Parahippocampal gyrus

Question 3

Someone who shows spatial neglect of their left side and within their reach is said to have which kind of neglect?

A)Peripersonal
B)Extrapersonal
C)Object-centered
D)Allocentric

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Binocular disparity is:

A)A monocular depth cue
B)The difference between the images seen by the two eyes
C)Oscillation of conscious perception
D)The image that falls on each retina

Question 5

Cells within the inferior parietal lobe often fire when:
A.Reaching
B.Grasping
C.Reaching, grasping, there is visual and tactile stimuli
D.There is visual and tactile stimuli

Question 6

Object-centered neglect is associated with the:
A.Middle and inferior temporal lobe regions in the left hemisphere
B.Middle and inferior temporal lobe regions in the right hemisphere
C.Right parietal lobe
D.Dorsal stream regions

Question 7

A corollary discharge is:
A.Movement of the retina due to eye movement
B.Feedback about changes in the position of the eye
C.A signal about upcoming eye movements
D.The difference between spatial positions of left and right eye

Question 8

Jackson damaged his left eye in an accident and no longer receives any retinal input from that eye.What kind of visual deficits would he have related to this injury?

A)Motion parallax deficits
B)Egocentric referencing deficits
C)Left-right orientation deficits
D)Depth perception deficits

Question 9

Categorical spatial relations specify
A.Relative position in dichotomous categorical terms
B.The distance between two locations
C.Verbal as well as spatial relations
D.Spatial relations of certain categories of objects

Question 10

Optic flow allows you to do which of the following?

A)Detect biological motion
B)Integrate multimodal sensory inputs
C)Integrate and predict fast-moving objects as you navigate your environment
D)Spatial memory mapping

Question 11

Which do humans find trickier to distinguish:
A.left from right
B.up from down
C.front from back
D..near from far

Question 12

The anterior parietal lobe is concerned primarily with:
A.Visual guidance of specific kinds of actions
B.Aspects of spatial cognition
C.Somatosensory representations
D.Visuospatial memory

Question 13

How many paths separate pathways project from the dorsal stream to other brain regions to support different spatial functions?
A.2
B.3
C.4
D.5

Question 14

Optic ataxia is a disorder of:
A.Visually guided reaching
B.Object recognition
C.Eye-gaze direction
D.Spatial navigation

Question 15

Egocentric disorientation is due to being unable to:
A.Recognize environmental stimuli such as landmarks
B.Recognize or name people or objects
C.Represent direction of orientation with respect to external environment
D.Represent spatial relations in relation to self

Question 16

Susan has sustained damage to the pathway connecting her parietal cortex to her prefrontal cortex.She would have deficits in which of the following areas:

A)Navigational
B)Spatial motor coordination
C)Visually-guided actions
D)Spatial working memory

Question 17

Motion parallax refers to
A.As you move, near objects are displaced more on your retina than objects that are far away
B.A binocular depth cue
C.As you move, far away objects are displaced more on your retina than objects that are near
D.Joining information from the two eyes to infer motion

Question 18

Within the PPC the superior parietal lobule and the inferior parietal lobule are separated by:
A.Intraparietal sulcus
B.Medial superior temporal area
C.Posterior parietal cortex
D.Longitudinal sulcus

Question 19

Name two frames of reference for coding spatial information:
A.Allocentric and extracorporeal
B.Egocentric and allocentric
C.Egocentric and extracorporeal
D.Coordinate and categorical

Question 20

The retrosplenial cortex:
A.Contributes to integration between different reference frames
B.Is an integral part of the HYPERLINK "https.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system" \o "Limbic system" limbic system
C.Fires when an animal is facing in a particular direction
D.Plays an important role in attention