Audition
Memory
Sleep
Frontal Lobe
Potpourri
100
Location of the primary receptors and location of transduction of auditory stimuli.
What is the cochlea?
100
Part of memory that involved consolidation for permanent storage.
What is long term memory?
100
The type of sleep that predominates in the last third of the night and is linked to dreaming.
What is REM?
100
Cortex involved in the initiation and coordination of movements for fine motor skills.
What is the primary motor cortex?
100
The system and pattern of brain activity when an individual is at rest, daydreaming, or engaged in social cognition
What is the default network?
200
The organizational framework of the primary auditory cortex.
What is tonotopic?
200
The cortex that plays a key role in the representation of value.
What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
200
Recording of electrical activity of a muscle associated with contraction and relaxation.
What is electromyogram?
200
Impaired in frontal lobe patients, this type of thinking involves generating many types of answers to a problem?
What is divergent thinking?
200
Cognitive processes which permit one person to make accurate and rapid inferences about the internal states of another person.
What is mentalizing?
300
An impairment in the ability to recognize familiar voices, while being unimpaired on other auditory abilities.
What is phonagnosia?
300
Type of memory that is explicit and fact-based.
What is declarative memory?
300
Cycle that occurs on a 24-hour cycle and include sleep and wakefulness. Termed our “biological clock,” it can be altered by artificial light.
What is circadian rhythm?
300
Loss of voluntary movement on the contralateral side of the body.
What is hemiplegia?
300
Developmental processes that utilize environmental information that can vary across individuals (e.g. for humans, the particular language that is heard)
What is experience-dependent processes?
400
The auditory disorder characterized by speech such as, "I called my mother on the television and did not understand the door. It was not for breakfast but she came for romer."
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
400
Memory for events in your own life.
What is episodic memory?
400
Stage that predominates in the first third of the night and is linked to the initiation of sleep.
What is slow-wave sleep?
400
A neurological test used to measure loss of response inhibition.
What is Wisconsin Card Sorting or the Stroop test?
400
The mapping specific parts of body to specific parts of cortex.
What is somatography?
500
The code name for the patient studied by Paul Broca.
What is Tan?
500
Neurological case study involving impairments to short-term and long-term memory due to extreme hippocampal damage.
Who is Clive Wearing?
500
The science of measuring sleep.
What is Polysomnography?
500
The binding together the awareness of oneself as continuous through time.
What is autonoetic awareness?
500
The parts of the brain related to social cognition that seems to be particularly activated when engaging in social judgments.
What are the MPFC, temporo-parietal junction, and the precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex?
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