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1
Q

Lateral geniculate

  • input
  • output
A
  • retina

- primary visual cortex

2
Q

Medial geniculate

  • input
  • output
A
  • cochlea

- primary auditory cortex

3
Q

Lateral posterior nucleus

  • input
  • output
A
  • association cortex, anterior geniculate, retina

- parietal and visual cortex, anterior cingulate, striatum

4
Q

Apraxia

A

inability to complete a task

5
Q

Agnoia

A

deficits is recognition (not sensation)

6
Q

Prosopagnosia

A

inability to recognize faces

7
Q

Visual agnosia

A

inability to recognize an object by sight

unimodal visual association cortex

8
Q

Astereognosia

A

inability to recognize an object by touch alone

9
Q

Which area of the brain matures first?

A

sensorimotor

10
Q

Which hemisphere of the brain is usually language-dominant?

A

left

11
Q

What is the function of the parietal association cortex on the dominant side?

A

skilled movements

right-left handed dominance

12
Q

What is the function of the parietal association cortex on the non-dominant side?

A

attention

13
Q

What deficit occurs when there is damage to the dominant parietal association cortex?

A

motor apraxia

14
Q

What deficit occurs when there is damage to the non-dominant parietal association cortex?

A

spacial neglect

15
Q

What is the function of the superior temporal association cortex?

A

language

social attention

16
Q

What is the function of the inferior temporal association cortex?

A

recognition

17
Q

Deficits in recognition

A

agnosia

18
Q

What is associative agnosia?

A

can identify but not name objects

19
Q

What is the area of the brain damaged with an associative agnosia?

A

posterior parietal cortex

20
Q

What is the order in which areas of the brain mature?

A
  1. sensorimotor areas
  2. unimodal association areas
  3. prefrontal cortex
21
Q

Which area of the brain is first to degenerate in Alzheimer’s dementia?

A

prefrontal cortex