Brain Anatomy
This largest part of the brain is divided into two hemispheres and four major lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
These retinal cells allow us to see color.
What are cones?
This myth says that you only use this percent of your brain.
What is 10%?
This effect occurs when someone conforms to the group, even if the group is wrong.
What is the Asch conformity effect?
This street houses many of BU's neuroscience and psychology labs.
What is Cummington Mall?
This brain region controls balance, coordination, and fine motor movements.
What is the cerebellum?
Perception is shaped by these mental shortcuts.
What are heuristics?
Despite the myth, listening to these types of music doesn’t permanently raise IQ.
What is classical music?
Feeling overly confident in predicting outcomes after they happen is called this.
What is hindsight bias?
This director of the UPN has research interests in comparative brain evolution and teaches courses such as Systems Physiology.
Who is Dr. Mario Muscedere?
This structure in the limbic system is essential for forming new long-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This system in the inner ear detects acceleration and helps maintain posture through hair cells embedded in otolith membranes
What is the vestibular system?
People don’t have strictly “left-brain” or “right-brain” personalities because this connects the hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This bias leads people to attribute their successes to themselves but their failures to external factors.
What is a self-serving bias?
The UNITE Brain Bank at Boston University hosts the largest tissue repository in the world. Other than TBI, this is the pathology that the UNITE team focuses its research on.
What is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)?
This region of the frontal lobe is crucial for speech production, and damage to it causes non-fluent aphasia.
What is Broca's area?
The minimum amount of stimulation required to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
Alcohol doesn’t directly kill brain cells, but it does impair this ability of the brain to form new connections.
What is plasticity?
This cognitive bias leads people to favor information that confirms their existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
The Cognitive Neuroimaging Center (CNC), located in CILSE, hosts this kind of brain scanner.
What is a Siemens 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner?
This brainstem nucleus is the major source of norepinephrine for the forebrain and is activated during stress and attention.
What is the locus coeruleus?
The thalamus acts as a relay station for almost all sensory information on its way to the cortex except:
What is smell?
The idea that memories function like perfect recordings is false. Rather, they’re reconstructed by this hippocampal process.
What is memory consolidation?
In dual-process theories of cognition, this system handles fast, intuitive, and automatic judgments in daily life.
What is system 1 thinking?
Dr. Howard Eichenbaum, BU professor and director of the BU Center for Memory and Brain, famously discovered these cells that fire at specific intervals during memory tasks, similar to place cells for location.
What are time cells?