Neuroanatomy
The brain and spinal cord. BONUS: For an extra 50 points, provide the name for neurons and nerves outside the brain.
What is the central nervous system? BONUS: What is the peripheral nervous system?
The kind of neuron that leaves the eye and goes to the brain.
What is a retinol ganglion cell?
Memories that you remember consciously (e.g., facts and events).
What is declarative memory?
A nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
The connection point between two neurons.
What is a synapse?
The center of the eye where light is focused.
What is the macula (or fovea)?
Memory loss from before a brain lesion and memory loss from after a brain lesion.
What is retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia?
The name for the whites of human eyes. BONUS: for 100 points, describe their evolutionary function.
What is sclera? BONUS: What is being able to tell where people are looking?
The lobes of the brain. BONUS: For an extra 100 points, gesture to the direction of rostral, caudal, dorsal, ventral, medial, and lateral on your head.
What is frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal?
Photoreceptors associated with peripheral vision, best at seeing in low light. BONUS: for 50 points, name an animal that we discussed with excellent peripheral vision.
What is rods? BONUS: What is a horse?
The scientist who discovered non-declarative memory through an experiment with H.M. (Henry Molaison)? BONUS: for an extra 150 points, describe the experiment.
Who is Brenda Milner? BONUS: What is drawing a star?
A method of using silver to show differences in the elaboration of dendritic trees.
What is the Golgi Method?
What is telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon?
The three kinds of interneurons in the eye.
What is bipolar, amacrine, and horozontal?
Name the the memory patient who contracted viral encephalitis.
Who is E.P. (Eugene Pauly)?
Humans can distinguish __ levels of brightness and __ hues of color.
What is 500 and 6 million?
The person who developed a stain for neuron axons. BONUS: For 50 points, name the kind of matter associated with axons.
Who is Karl Weigert? BONUS: What is white matter?
The area of the brain associated with color vision.
What is V4?
The part of the brain responsible for memory encoding and consolidation. HINT: It was damaged in H.M. (Henry Molaison). BONUS: For an extra 200 points, describe where in the brain this structure is located.
What is the hippocampus? BONUS: What is the medial temporal lobe?
The percentage of the cortex that is made up of neocortex. BONUS: for an extra 50 points, provide provide a range for the thickness of the cortex.
What is 80%? BONUS: What is 1-4 mm?