Cortex Functioning

Question 1

Limbic Cortex Function

Answer 1

Homeostasis-Olfaction-Memory-Emotions/Drives

Question 2

Primary Motor Location

Answer 2

Precentral gyrus in frontal lobe

Question 3

Primary Somatosensory Location

Answer 3

Postcentral gyrus in parietal lobe

Question 4

Primary Visual Location

Answer 4

Banks of calcarine fissure in occipital lobe

Question 5

Primary Auditory Location

Answer 5

Transverse gyrus of heschl in temporal lobe

Question 6

Unimodal Association

Answer 6

High order processing of modality-specific sensory information in areas adjacent to primary sensory areas; Proprocessing/planning of motor functioning in areas adjacent to primary motor

Question 7

Heteromodal Association

Answer 7

Integrates multimodal information from unimodal association areas and limbic system; integrates complex sensory/motor information with emotion, motivation and drives; pr-frontal cortex and lateral temporal-parietal-occipital area

Question 8

Receptive Language

Answer 8

language processing of information which results in comprehension

Question 9

Receptive Auditory Comprehension Pathway

Answer 9

Primary auditory area (Heschl’s gryrus) –> Wernicke’s area (superior temporal gyrus)

Question 10

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 10

Maps sounds to meaning

Question 11

Expressive Language

Answer 11

production of language with the intention of transmitting information to oneself or another person

Question 12

Speech Production Pathway

Answer 12

Broca’s area (inferior frontal gyrus) –> Primary motor area (precentral gyrus)

Question 13

Broca’s Area

Answer 13

Contains motor programs for speech

Question 14

Repetition Pathway

Answer 14

Wernicke’s area –> arcuate fasciculus (white matter track)–> Broca’s area

Question 15

Aphasia

Answer 15

Loss of previous acquired language functioning

Question 16

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 16

Impaired speech/expressive language

Question 17

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 17

Impaired understanding/receptive language

Question 18

Conduction Aphasia

Answer 18

Impaired repetition

Question 19

Global Aphasia

Answer 19

All language is impaired: Expressive and Receptive

Question 20

Apraxia

Answer 20

Inability to carry out previously-learned skilled motor movements

Question 21

Selective/Directed Attention

Answer 21

Focusing attention on a particular domain above others

Question 22

Hemineglect Syndrome

Answer 22

Inattention to contralateral side of space

Question 23

Spatial Analysis

Answer 23

Mental rotations, spatial imagery, spacial construction

Question 24

Dorsal Pathway for Visual Processing

Answer 24

Where: motion and spatial relations

Question 25

Simultanagnosia

Answer 25

Dorsal Disruption; inability to perceive more than one object at a time

Question 26

Ventral Pathway for Visual Processing

Answer 26

What: Form and Color

Question 27

Prosopagnosia

Answer 27

Inability to perceive faces

Question 28

Procedural Memory

Answer 28

Memory for skills that cannot be easily verbalized; Involves cerebellum and basal ganglia

Question 29

Declarative Memory

Answer 29

Memory for information that can be verbalized, including visual information, facts and events; Involves the hippocampus

Question 30

Hippocampus

Answer 30

Transfers information from conscious awareness/working memory to long term memory