Vision
An area of the brain in which visual processing takes place?
occipital lobe
Broca's area is one of the main areas of the cerebral cortex responsible for______________
Speech Production
_______is memory that has no capacity limits and holds information from minutes to an entire lifetime
Long-term memory
Which part of our brain helps to keep posture and balance?
Cerebellum
Visual simultagnosia, optic ataxia and oculomotor apraxia are all symptoms of _______________?
Balint Syndrome
Fusiform area is located in
Temporal lobe
True or false: In Wernicke's aphasia, comprehension is good but speech is poor.
False.
Comprehension is poor, but speech is fluent.
What is it called when an individual has both retrograde and anterograde amnesia?
Global or total amnesia.
An inability to use vision to accurately guide action, without basic deficits in visual discrimination or voluntary movement per se.
Optic ataxia
________ is part of a brain that plays a critical role in emotional learning and generating appropriate responses to environmental cues.
Amygdala
In vision, a pathway extending from the occipital lobes to the temporal lobes involved in object recognition, memory and semantics.
Ventral Stream
Wernicke's area is located in________
Temporal lobe
The term for the condition when a person cannot form new memories
Anterograde Amnesia
Which motor area is responsible for controlling actions, which have already planned?
Supplementary motor area
The growth of new neurons is called_________
Neurogenesis
Patient F.R.A.:
Could perceive objects with his visual system, but could not understand or assign meaning to the object.
-Damage in the occipital lobe of left hemisphere, extended into the posterior temporal cortex.
-Knowledge about the objects are intact.
-He could copy objects and colored them
Associative Agnosia
A disorder characterized by difficulty controlling muscles used in speech
Dysarthria
__________is a chronic memory disorder caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B-1). it is most commonly caused by alcohol misuse,
Korsakoff’s syndrome
Which motor cortex is responsible for execution of voluntary movements of the body
Primary Motor Cortex
Elizabeth Loftus is associated with what kind of psychological phenomenon?
False memory
A failure to perceive visual motion.
Akinetopsia
Patient X has some specific type of aphasia, he experiences a problem with word finding, but has no problem with comprehention
Anomia
Two types of explicit memory
semantic and episodic
The prefrontal cortex is responsible for_________
planning movements
A state of confusion or memory loss that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury is called__________
POST-TRAUMATIC AMNESIA