cognitive neuroscience

Question 1

what does the frontal lobe do?

Answer 1

problem solve and language production

Question 2

what does parietal lobe do?

Answer 2

attention and spatial processing [where something is]

Question 3

what does the Primary Somatosensory Cortex do?

Answer 3

recognition of objects and textures (sensory)

Question 4

what does temporal lobe do?

Answer 4

auditory processing, pattern recognition

Question 5

what does occipital lobe do?

Answer 5

visual processing

Question 6

what is a gyrus

Answer 6

a fold of cortical tissue

Question 7

what is a fissure

Answer 7

a cleft of separation between gyri

Question 8

what is a sulcus

Answer 8

a smaller fissure that connects two regions of brain tissue

Question 9

what does the neocortex do?

Answer 9

higher mental functions, general movements, perception, and behavior responses

Question 10

what does the corpus striatum do?

Answer 10

connection between cerebral cortex and cerebellum, helps regulate automatic movement

Question 11

what does the orbitofrontal cortex do?

Answer 11

deeper decision making, moral judgement, reinforcement, reflection, and forming expectations

Question 12

____ long term memory function associated with the basal ganglia and motor cortex

Answer 12

implicit or procedural

Question 13

semantic memory and consolidation of episodic memory are both branches of ____

Answer 13

explicit or declarative

Question 14

where is the semantic memory stored?

Answer 14

limbic cortex

Question 15

what does the hippocampus

Answer 15

the consolidation, the transfer of information from short term memory to long term memory

Question 16

what does the amygdala do?

Answer 16

an emotional mediation of long term memory consolidation

Question 17

what is anterograde amnesia?

Answer 17

inability to retain new information likely due to short term memory damage

Question 18

what is retrograde amnesia?

Answer 18

inability to remember previously acquired information likely due to long term memory damage

Question 19

what is synaptic plasticity?

Answer 19

dynamic bio-chemical configurations of each synapse where a synapse might strengthen or weaken its activation potential over time

Question 20

what is long term potentiation?

Answer 20

An entire chain of neurons can be actively firing into each other so much that the connection of these chains seems to be “warm”

Question 21

what is the Hebb rule?

Answer 21

It is possible for each brain region to simulate the functions of other regions outside of their domain-specificity

Question 22

what is the case study method?

Answer 22

looking at the effects of the brain damage due to stroke, head trauma, or other injury in humans

Question 23

what is lesions studies?

Answer 23

it is an electrode used to selectively destroy a specific brain area of an animal. The resulting behavioral deficits are then examined