Language
This hemisphere is the predominant hemisphere for language in most people.
What is the left hemisphere?
Paul Ekman believed that these were universal to all people, regardless of culture, to communicate pro-survival cues.
What are facial expressions?
This popular, unregulated psychostimulant helps us to stay awake by blocking the adenosine receptor.
What is caffeine?
The process by which one hemisphere of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
What is contralateral?
This large white matter tract connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus collosum?
Also referred to as grammar, this is often said to be the most distinctive aspect of language
What is Syntax?
If this brain structure is eliminated bilaterally, the individual has trouble detecting danger and controlling fear.
What is the amygdala?
This phase of sleep is referred to as “paradoxical sleep” because it looks the most similar to being awake?
What is REM sleep?
This part of the neuron, when bundled together with other neurons, form nerves that can send information across long distances in the nervous system.
What is an axon?
This learning disorder may have multifactorial causes, including attentional deficiencies, motor deficiencies, and sound-detection deficiencies.
What is a reading disorder?
This brain area in the left frontal lobe is associated with language production.
What is Broca's Area?
This system of cortical and subcortical structures, including the insula and thalamus, are involved in emotion and formation of memories.
What is the limbic system?
This theory about why we sleep postulates that sleep is needed to give our body time to repair and reset
What is the Recuperation Theory?
This neuroscience method is used in both research and clinically to induce temporary lesions using magnetic pulses.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
Lesions to this region disrupt the coordination of movement in different ways, such as the precise timing of movements.
What is the cerebellum?
In this type of aphasia, patients are aware that they have a language disorder but are unable to express language fluently.
This theory of emotion suggested the perception of an emotionally charged stimulus prompts simultaneous but independent activation of both the autonomic nervous system and the emotional response.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
This endogenous hormone produced by the pineal gland helps signal the body to prepare for sleep.
What is melatonin?
This is the step of an action potential voltage-gated sodium channels open, allowing a rapid influx of positively charged sodium ions into the cell. This influx makes the inside of the cell more positive, causing the membrane potential to rapidly rise.
What is depolarization?
This brain region, composed of interconnected nuclei, helps resolve the “competition” between different planned motor movements through a series of inhibitory actions and is therefore critical in the initiation of movements.
What is the basal ganglia?
This model of language was helpful not only for creating the first complete and coherent model of language, but also for its predictive utility for disorders such as conductive aphasia.
What is the Wernicke-Geschwind model?
The Singer-Schachter Two-Factor Theory of Emotion stated that people needed this along with the physiological response in order to determine which emotion is appropriate for a given circumstance.
What is the cognitive label?
Lawyers for Kenneth Parks argued that he committed murder because he was suffering from this very rare parasomnia (sleep disorder) in which a person has the ability to carry out highly coordinated, complex motor behaviors.
What is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder?
This neuroimaging technique measures the hemodynamic response function (BOLD signal), i.e., the change in concentrations of deoxyhemoglobin in the blood.
What is the functional magnetic resonance imaging?
“Cells that fire together wire together”
This cellular process is thought to be the process by which network of neurons fire together and allows for consolidation.
What is consolidation?