Flashcards in neuropsych final exam tests 1 and 2 Deck (137):
1
visual processing occurs in the what lobe
occipital
2
anatomical feature of primary visual cortex
calcarine sulcus
3
in the superior temporal sulcus, neurons are active in the what
STS
4
visual cortex has no regions for what
emotion
5
ventral stream does
visual object recognition
6
facial features follow visual attention to
L visual field
7
milner and goodale posterior parietal research
activation when monkey reaches for stimulus
8
STS has
polysensory
9
blindness to the entire visual field
homonymous hemianopia
10
unilateral destucion of L occipital lobe is
Rvisual field hemianopia
11
most of the primary visual cortex is represented in the
fovea
12
bitemporal hemianopia
loss of vision from bth temporal fields, lesion to optic chiasm, peripheral vision on both sides lost
13
nasal hemianopia
loss of vision to 1 nasal field, lesion of lateral chiasm
14
homonymous hemianopia
blindness of entire visual field, results from complete cut of optic tract, LGN or V1, cut at bottom
15
macular sparing
sparing of central or macular region of visual field, lesion to occipital lobe
16
no conscious awareness of touch, but can accurately report it
blindsight
17
unable to use visual info to guide movement
optic ataxia
18
apperceptive agnosia
inability to perceive structure of objects, widespread bilateral occipital lobe
19
prosopagnosia
cant recognize faces
20
blind spot
scotoma
21
simultagnosia
inability to see multiple objects at the same time
22
anosognosia
lack of awareness
23
acalculia
inability to do calculations
24
astereogenosis
inability to recognize an object by touch
25
autopagnosia
no knowledge of issues, no awareness of body
26
agraphia
cant write
27
dysphasia
inability to speak, comprehend
28
afferent paresis
clumsy finger movements
29
apraxia
nothing is wrong but you lose movement---ideomotor, constructional
30
associative agnosia
describe, not name
31
image generation occurs in
L hemisphere
32
parietal lobe ventrally marked by
sylvian fissure
33
supramarginal/angular gyrus demarks
inferior parietal
34
parietal cortex and prefrontal cortex function
spatially guided behavior
35
posterior parietal damage causes inability to
reach toward visual target
36
sensory feedback actual outcome intended movement is
efference
37
medial parietal region function
spatial navigation
38
mental transformations
organize gray matter in anterior parietal
39
math, mentally rotating and manipulating objects
mental space in posterior parietal
40
posterior to central sulcus function
processing somatosensory info
41
pari stroke-reports R touch when L touch
allesthesia
42
1 object at a time, misreach--disease
Ballint's
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R parietal lesions-what neglect
unilateral neglect
44
hemispatial neglect causes
impaired attention to personal space
45
cant identify fingers/do math
Gerstmann
46
posterior parietal does what
L and R distinguishing
47
Posner, parietal lobes to attention
shift attention
48
R pari
R/L distinguishing
49
line bisection task
contralateral task
50
auditory association cortex
insula
51
anterior commissure connects R&L
medial temp
52
neurons in the middle temporal gyrus
corpus callosum
53
hippocampus input
perforant pathway
54
temporal lobes
control visual tracking
55
projection from temporal lobe to frontal lobe
short term memory and affect
56
medial temporal does what
long term memory formation
57
temporal and effective occurs in
amygdala
58
temp cross modal matching
vocal characteristic and face
59
intentions from movement
theory of mind
60
movie brain scans
stereotypical manner
61
temporal cortex, tanka
category formation
62
thatcher
upright eyes and mouth
63
individual speech sounds
formants
64
fundamental frequencies and harmonies
spectral pitch
65
more gray matter in heschels in musicians
not nonmusicians
66
prosody, anterograde
not in temp personality
67
prefrontal connections
from dorsomedial nucleus thalamus
68
prefrontal
distracted by external cues, orbitofrontal (anterior temp lobes), plot chess
69
executive function
appropriate behavioral strategies from cues
70
up right front than L all but 1
verbal fluency
71
frontal
olfaction
orbital-amyg and hypothalamus
72
programming sequences
premotor
73
frontal injury/copying
face movements
74
corollary discharge
reafference, internal neural signal that movement will occur
75
L supp speech and medial frontal
speak spontaneously
76
less novel designs
R frontal
77
decision making tasks high in ambiguity
orbiofrontal and amyg
78
poor temp memory
dorsolateral prefrontal
79
dopamine
schizophrenia
80
corpus callosum
connection, commissures
81
ridges
gyri
82
brain and spinal cord
CNS
83
materialism
workings physical nervous system and body alone
84
early localization
human language disorders
speech-L frontal
85
speech comprehension
temporal
86
unitary perception from multiple streams
binding problem
87
psychometrics
development intelligence tests
88
blood supply interruptions
stroke
89
rostral to caudal in CNS
brain to spinal cord
90
ipsilateral
same side
91
contralateral
opposite side
92
afferent
arriving
93
efferent
exiting
94
top
dorsal
95
bottom
ventral
96
front
anterior
97
back
posterior
98
parasympathetic and sympathetic
autonomic
99
dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater,
outside to inside
100
CSF role
cushion brain
101
originates from stem cell
lj ;lkj
102
glia cells
supporting nervous system cells
103
spinal cord segments
30
104
damage to dorsal fibers in SC
sensation
105
dorsal sensory, ventral motor
bell magendia
106
thalamus
sensory relay
107
lateraltiy function
genetics, gender, handedness
108
functional differences >> cortical sites
than sides
109
L had greater
planum temporal
110
anatomical asymmetric
language areas
111
L asymmetry
gentler sylvian fissure slope
112
R asymmetry
less gray matter, farther anteriorly, larger heschls
113
localization experiment
double dissociation
114
IQ test, nonverball recall, copying
R temp
115
cut corpus callosum for
epilepsy, commissurotomy, key in L hand recognize shapes not verbal
116
chimeric stimuli
face to left visual field only
117
R carotid artery
contralateral arm exhibit flaccid paralysis
118
visual images presented individually
tachistoscope
119
meoldies in dichotic listnening
l ear advantage
120
multiple simulataneous stimulia
increased blood flow in R hemi
121
rapidly presented stimuli
specialize in L hemi
122
lateralization interpreted with care
affect by cognitive strategies
123
dictionary word storage
lexicon
124
phonemes sounding
phonological
125
kids, developmental dyslexia
none
126
tallal, 1 or 2 tones
10 and 40 msec
127
ACID profile
dyslexia
128
austism
social withdrawl
129
savant
cognitive skills isolated
130
hyperlexia
precocious reading
131
ritalin
hyperactivity
132
cerebral palsy cause
birth developmental injury
133
CSF made by
choroid plexus
134
impaitments autistic motor skills
cerebellum
135
aspergers
less sever autism
136
fragile X syndrom
femmales less symptoms than males, 2 X chromosomes
137