Association Cortices

Question 1

V4?

Answer 1

Colour perception

Question 2

V1?

Answer 2

Ocular dominance columns

Question 3

Fusiform face area?

Answer 3

Prosopagnosia, can’t recognise faces

Question 4

Middle temporal destroyed?

Answer 4

Responsible for movement detection, so see-in still frames

Question 5

Posterior association area?

Answer 5

Perception and language

Question 6

Temporal association area

Answer 6

Emotion, memory

Question 7

Prefrontal association area?

Answer 7

Executive function

Question 8

Visual agnosia?

Answer 8

Inability to recognise and identify objects

Question 9

Anosognosia?

Answer 9

Lack of ability to perceive the realities ones own condition

Question 10

Prefrontal cortex responsible for?

Answer 10

Working memory, continuity of behavioural planning, anxiety for future

Question 11

Apperceptive agnosia?

Answer 11

Failure in recognition because of visualising in different form

Question 12

Associative agnosia?

Answer 12

Can’t associate meaning to object, man mistook wife for a hat

Question 13

Broca’s area

Answer 13

Can’t produce language

Question 14

Wernicke’s area?

Answer 14

Temporal lobe for comprehension

Question 15

Aphasia?

Answer 15

Difficulty with language and speech

Question 16

Wada procedure?

Answer 16

Injecting barbiturate in carotid artery, ask questions unable to produce language

Used to determine hemisphere dominant for speech

Question 17

Brocas failure?

Answer 17

Nonfluent aphasia

Question 18

Main multimodal association areas?

Answer 18

Posterior- perception language
Temporal- emotion memory
Prefrontal- executive functions

Question 19

Visual agnosia?

Answer 19

Total or partial loss of ability to recognise objects or people

Question 20

Prospagnosia?

Answer 20

Unable to recognise faces

Question 21

Anosognosia?

Answer 21

Inability to recognise ones own illness

Question 22

Apraxia?

Answer 22

Unable to perform learned movements on command even when the command is understood

Question 23

Aphasia?

Answer 23

Disorders in communicating and using symbols

Question 24

What is the prefrontal cortex important for?

Answer 24

Executive functions- long term planning and judgment, working memory, personality changes, continuity of behavioural planning

Question 25

Apperception agnosia?

Answer 25

Failure in recognition due to deficits in early stages of perceptual processing

Question 26

Associative agnosia?

Answer 26

Failure in recognition despite no deficit in perception

Question 27

What does premotor cortex do?

Answer 27

Generate motor programs