Deck 21: Extension: C - Spatial Behavior

Question 1

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

A) parietal
B) frontal
C) temporal
D) occipital

Answer 1

frontal

Question 2

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

A) complex
B) grid
C) head direction
D) place

Answer 2

complex

Question 3

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

A) Zangwill's; parietal
B) Bálint's; temporal
C) Bálint's; parietal
D) Holmes's; frontal

Answer 3

Bálint's; parietal

Question 4

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:

A) heading disorientation.
B) landmark agnosia.
C) spatial amnesia.
D) egocentric disorientation.

Question 5

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

A) dead reckoning
B) landmarks
C) odors
D) environmental cues

Question 6

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

A) the entorhinal cortex
B) the dentate gyrus
C) the subiculum
D) the hippocampus

Question 7

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

A) common sense
B) landmarks
C) dead reckoning
D) compasses

Question 8

The studies conducted on food caching in birds demonstrates that:

A) birds with frontal lobe lesions show no difficulty in finding the seeds that they have cached.
B) African and Asian birds are more likely to use dead reckoning to find their cache sites.
C) birds who cache seeds have a larger hippocampus.
D) testosterone is crucial to producing birdsong and also to remembering cache sites.

Question 9

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) right posterior cingulate cortex
B) left posterior cingulate cortex
C) right anterior cingulate cortex
D) left anterior cingulate cortex

Question 10

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.

A) Patients with left hippocampal damage performed equal to those with right hippocampal damage.
B) Patients with right hippocampal damage performed significantly worse than those with left damage.
C) Patients with left hippocampal damage performed significantly worse than those with right damage.
D) Patients with right hippocampal damage performed significantly better than those with left damage.

Question 11

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

A) Cartographic
B) Topographic
C) Magellanic
D) Navigational

Question 12

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

A) head direction.
B) cue learning.
C) GPS navigation.
D) topographic learning.

Question 13

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

A) right prefrontal cortex
B) fornix
C) extrastriate cortex
D) right posterior hippocampus

Question 14

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) Down syndrome
B) Klinefelter syndrome
C) XYY syndrome
D) Turner's syndrome

Question 15

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

A) topographic amnesia
B) landmark agnosia
C) egocentric disorientation
D) geographic amnesia