parietal lobe

Question 1

this part of the parietal lobe processes somatic sensation and perception

Answer 1

anterior parietal lobe

Question 2

this part of the lobe integrates visual/somatosensory information (mvmnt)

Answer 2

posterior parietal lobe

Question 3

this part of the p lobe does object rotation, mental imagery and navigation

Answer 3

posterior parietal lobe

Question 4

posterior parietal lobe is involved in which visual stream

Answer 4

dorsal

Question 5

this area does somatosensory input and guides movement based on limb location

Answer 5

area PE

Question 6

Area PE gives output to…

Answer 6

primary and secondary MC and area PF

Question 7

this area receive input form area PE, MC, PMC

Answer 7

Area PF

Question 8

this area establishes movement goals and gets fb to restructure movement

Answer 8

Area PF

Question 9

area PG is polymodal T/F

Answer 9

True

Question 10

this area forms complex connections in visual, skin, proprioceptive and vestibular, oculomotor and cingulate

Answer 10

Area PG

Question 11

this area is larger in the RH

Answer 11

Area PG

Question 12

Area PG communicates with what visual stream

Answer 12

Dorsal

Question 13

what is responsible for non-conscious visuospatial reaching and grabbing movements

Answer 13

dorsal visual stream

Question 14

tis dorsal pathway does movement goals and is considered the how stream

Answer 14

parieto-premotor pathway

Question 15

this dorsal pathway does visuospatial function (working memory)

Answer 15

parietal-prefrotal pathway

Question 16

this dorsal pathway does spatial navigation and remembers where things are

Answer 16

Parieto-medial temporal pathway

Question 17

the posterior parietal lobe is more movement oriented than the anterior part

Answer 17

true

Question 18

a patient with high sensory thresholds who presents stereogenisis deficits may have a lesion where

Answer 18

postcentral gyrus

Question 19

postcentral gyrus lesion patients may present its what symptom in their limbs

Answer 19

clumsy finger movement due to lack of feedback

Question 20

unawareness or denial of sickness

Answer 20

anosognosia

Question 21

indifference to illness

Answer 21

anosodiaphoria

Question 22

absence of normal reaction to pain

Answer 22

asymbolia

Question 23

inability to localize or name a body part

Answer 23

autopagnosia

Question 24

loose sense of ones own body typically the left side

Answer 24

asomatognsia

Question 25

Apraxia is typically caused by damage to ____ resulting in loss of skilled movement

Answer 25

parietoprefrontal cortex

Question 26

a subject presents and can button his shirt but is unable to reach and grab a glass infant of him

Answer 26

optic apraxia

Question 27

this person struggles with spatial organization, and when making a sandwich might put the bread in the middle

Answer 27

constructional apraxia

Question 28

person is unable to feel a poke but could report where it was

Answer 28

numb touch /blind touch

Question 29

numb touch effects which areas of the parietal cortex

Answer 29

PE/PF and some PG

Question 30

two stimuli are presented this person neglects to feel one of them

Answer 30

stimulus extinction

Question 31

stimulus extinction is cased by damage to which areas of the parietal lobe

Answer 31

PE and PF

Question 32

inability to recognize an object by touch

Answer 32

astereognosis

Question 33

lesions to this area of the brain cause contralateral neglect

Answer 33

RH --> right intraparietal sulcus and area PG

Question 34

this person doesn't respond to visual, auditory, or somesthetic input of the LEFT side of their body

Answer 34

contralateral neglect

Question 35

two deficits that may cause neglect

Answer 35

1. defective sensation/perception | 2. defective attention/orientation

Question 36

if someone have neglect due to sensation/perception defects where might their brain damage be

Answer 36

lesion to PG in the RH

Question 37

if someone have neglect due to attention/orientation defects where might their brain damage be

Answer 37

frontal lobe

Question 38

patient presents and is unable to fixate on visual stimulus and gazes sightly to the right this person may have ___ with damage to ____

Answer 38

Balints syndrome, bilateral parietal lesion

Question 39

patient can only attend to one object at a time and fails to see others while attending to the one

Answer 39

stimulagnosia