Language
This brain hemisphere is most often associated with brain activity while listening to single words in an MRI scanner.
What is the left hemisphere?
This type of memory, which includes learned motor behaviors like knowing how to ride a bike, requires not no conscious effort to store or retrieve.
What is implicit or nondeclarative memory?
This is one purpose of emotions
All acceptable: survive, interact, set goals, initiate actions
This organism is commonly used to model language learning in experiments that cannot be ethically done in humans.
What is the songbird?
This seahorse-shaped brain area was completely removed (among other temporal lobe areas) in patient H.M., resulting in his inability to create new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This neurotransmitter is important for reward learning and motor behavior.
What is dopamine?
Damage to this area of the brain caused the patient "Tan" to be unable to produce any words besides "Tan".
This glutamate receptor is important to long term potentiation because of its role in allowing calcium into the cell
What is the NMDA receptor?
Name all six of Ekman's emotions
What are anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, joy, and fear?
This area of the brain caused a patient to be unable to comprehend speech despite producing fluent, but unintelligible speech.
What is Wernicke's area?
This substance "switches on" genes in the nucleus to stimulate growth of the synapse
What is CREB?
This brain area is particularly important in overriding emotional responses
What is the PFC?
This gene is referenced in the brain facts book as being associated with language. (HINT: the first three letters of the gene's name are also the name of a reddish animal)
What is FOXP2?
This is the parahippocampal brain area that is reference in the brain facts book as one of the only places in the brain where new neurons are generated in adulthood.
What is the dentate gyrus?
This pathway is important for reward learning and is very important to the signaling involved in substance use disorders.
What is the mesolimbic pathway?