Question 1

The study of lateralization of function has focused on the right hemisphere because

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A)   most people are right-handed.
B)   most people are dextrals.
C)   the right hemisphere is dominant.
D)   the special abilities of the left hemisphere have been more apparent.
E)   both A and B D

Question 2

Damage to the left angular gyrus has been implicated in some cases of

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A)   word salad.
B)   alexia and agraphia.
C)   aphagia.
D)   expressive aphasia.
E)   conduction aphasia. B

Question 3

It has been reported that naming faces,animals,and tools each activates a slightly different area of __________ lobe cortex.

Accepted Answer

temporal

Question 4

Broca's area is adjacent to the

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A)   left longitudinal fissure.
B)   right lateral fissure.
C)   left primary motor cortex face area.
D)   left primary somatosensory cortex face area.
E)   right primary somatosensory cortex.

Question 5

During a test in which split-brain patients were asked to verbally specify which of two colors,red or green,had been presented in the left visual field,an interesting phenomenon was discovered.This phenomenon is

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A)   unilateral emotion.
B)   cross-cuing.
C)   the helping-hand phenomenon.
D)   transfer of hircismus.
E)   interhemispheric transfer of color.

Question 6

Reading aloud can be accomplished in two different ways: by the

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A)   phonetic and semantic procedures.
B)   linguistic and semantic procedures.
C)   lexical and phonetic procedures.
D)   phonetic and phonological procedures.
E)   surface and deep procedures.

Question 7

The incidence of developmental dyslexia in English-speaking children is __________ in boys than girls.

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A)   2 to 3 times greater
B)   about 10 times greater
C)   between half to one-third
D)   about 10% less
E)   about 10% more

Question 8

Describe three methods for studying lateralization of function in intact humans.Compare them.

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Question 9

The decision to treat "terminal" epilepsy patients with commissurotomy was made on the basis of previous comparative studies that had shown that

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A)   epileptic discharges spread from one hemisphere to the other via the corpus callosum.
B)   commissurotomy has little disruptive effect on behavior outside contrived laboratory situations.
C)   commissurotomy eliminates seizure discharges.
D)   all of the above
E)   both A and B

Question 10

Although the symptoms of apraxia are ________,apraxia usually results from damage to the ________ hemisphere.

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A)   unilateral; left
B)   contralateral; right
C)   ipsilateral; left
D)   bilateral; right
E)   bilateral; left

Question 11

With respect to cerebral lateralization of function,evidence clearly shows that

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A)   the left hemisphere plays the greater role in many aspects of language in most people.
B)   the right hemisphere plays the greater role in many aspects of spatial perception in many people.
C)   lateralization of neither language nor spatial perception is total.
D)   all of the above
E)   both A and B

Question 12

In surface dyslexia,the __________ procedure has been lost.

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A)   semantic
B)   phonetic
C)   lexical
D)   deep
E)   phonological

Question 13

Dyslexics in whom the phonetic procedure is disrupted while the lexical procedure remains normal are said to have __________ dyslexia.

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A)   surface
B)   semantic
C)   phonological
D)   grammatical
E)   deep

Question 14

Areas of the brain that analyze the meaning of a word are said to be performing a __________ analysis.

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A)   phonological
B)   semantic
C)   grammatical
D)   serial
E)   lexical

Question 15

There is now a general consensus that developmental dyslexia results from

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A)   a general attentional deficit.
B)   autistic tendencies.
C)   a disturbance of phonological processing.
D)   a variety of sensorimotor deficits.
E)   damage to the lateral geniculate.

Question 16

Both the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus are in

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A)   the temporal lobe.
B)   the frontal lobe.
C)   primary olfactory cortex.
D)   Wernicke's area.
E)   Broca's area.

Question 17

Cross-cuing is communication between the hemispheres of a split-brain patient that occurs

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A)   externally, via the behavior of one of the hemispheres.
B)   via the corpus callosum.
C)   via any cerebral commissure.
D)   via any cerebral commissure other than the corpus callosum.
E)   B or C

Question 18

The discovery of the lateralization of aphasia and apraxia led to the

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A)   concept of a dominant left hemisphere.
B)   concept of a dominant right hemisphere.
C)   development of commissurotomy.
D)   development of split-brain surgery.
E)   both C and D

Question 19

Cognitive neuroscientists interested in the brain mechanisms of language search for the specific parts of the brain that mediate

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A)   phonemes.
B)   language production.
C)   language comprehension.
D)   language's constituent cognitive processes.
E)   both B and C

Question 20

Tests with very sensitive fMRI machines suggest that the language areas of the cortex are

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A)   large and homogeneous.
B)   patchy and widespread.
C)   variable.
D)   both A and C
E)   both B and C

Exam 16: Lateralization, language, and the Split Brain