Brain anatomy

Question 1

3 membranes around brain

Answer 1

Dura mater, Arachnoid membrane, pia mater

Question 2

frontal lobe

Answer 2

planning & goals

Question 3

parietal lobe

Answer 3

links body to world

Question 4

occupital lobe

Answer 4

decodes messages from eyes to brain

Question 5

temporal lobe

Answer 5

understand meaning

Question 6

primary somatosensory cortex

Answer 6

Touch/ pain

Question 7

optic ataxia

Answer 7

clumsy motion of limbs under visual guidance (superior parietal lobe lesions)

Question 8

ideomotor apraxia

Answer 8

loss of purposeful movements

Question 9

inattentional blindness

Answer 9

temporary blindness when exposed to unexpected Stimuli

Question 10

Chabris & Simons 2010

Answer 10

too much attention to one aspect limits ability for other aspects

Question 11

hemispatial neglect

Answer 11

forgetting one side of space (left usually)

Question 12

Kluver-Bucy syndrome 1950

Answer 12

monkeys & temporal lobe damage - poor memory , no sense of danger

Question 13

semantic dementia

Answer 13

temporal lobe damage anomia

Question 14

associative agnosia

Answer 14

damage to temporal lobe , issues recognising objects

Question 15

prospagnosia

Answer 15

issues with face recognition

Question 16

wernickes aphasia

Answer 16

language comprehension deficit damage in left posterior temporal lobe

Question 17

Phineas Gage

Answer 17

Pole in frontal lobe only personality changed

Question 18

Primary motor cortex

Answer 18

controls body movements

Question 19

premotor cortex

Answer 19

action plans

Question 20

dorso lateral PFC

Answer 20

executive functions

Question 21

ventro lateral PFC

Answer 21

emotional evaluation

Question 22

shallice 1982

Answer 22

1-planning 2-spatial frontal patients impaired on 1 , parietal patients opposite

Question 23

Broca Aphasia

Answer 23

speech production issues

Question 24

utilisation behaviour

Answer 24

objects elicit response that’s in appropriate

Question 25

Ihermite 1986

Answer 25

patients home, sees bed and starts getting ready to sleep

Question 26

frontal leucotomy

Answer 26

severed frontal lobe , sufferers from anxiety , depression , s z

Question 27

Tooth 1961

Answer 27

frontal lobotomy on 9000 patients 41% improved 28% minimal 25% no change 2% worse

Question 28

Feinstein 2010

Answer 28

amygdala triggers fear response

Question 29

Phelps 2000

Answer 29

race faces shown amygdala stronger activation for black faces

Question 30

anterograde amnesia

Answer 30

after lesions, problem with new into memory

Question 31

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 31

prior to lesions

Question 32

H M case study

Answer 32

hippo campus removed knew prior events but couldn't remember anything else

Question 33

Milner 1962

Answer 33

H M learnt novel task , days later no recollection