This non-invasive technique measures changes in blood flow to different areas in response to brain activity.
What is fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
100
This is the pathway that has been severed in so-called "split-brain" patients.
What is the corpus collosum?
100
This famous patient could only utter a single syllable, but his ability to understand his native French language was apparently unaffected by the lesion in his left frontal lobe.
Who was Leborgne (or "Tan")
100
In most right-handed individuals, language functions are lateralized to this hemisphere.
What is the left hemisphere?
100
Green
What is my TA's favorite color?
200
This signal, which can have either positive or negative polarity, measures electrical activity in the brain in response to a particular stimulus.
What is an ERP? (Event Related Potential)?
200
This especially deep sulcus separates the temporal and frontal lobes.
What is the Sylvian Fissure?
200
Wernicke's aphasia is an example of this type of condition in which patients' speech sounds effortless, although it may be incomprehensible...
What is a fluent aphasia?
200
Evidence from aphasias suggests that this area of the left hemisphere is responsible for retrieval of content words, like nouns, as well as for language comprehension and self-monitoring of speech.
What is Wernicke's area?
200
Crispin
What is the name of my professor's dog?
300
This signal, recorded while participants are completing a linguistic task, is compared to a baseline and then superimposed on a a structural MRI. The resulting image shows which regions of the brain were active during the task.
What is the BOLD signal (Blood Oxygen Level Dependent)?
300
One of four major divisions of the cerebral cortex, this section processes auditory inputs and, in the left hemisphere, is associated with language comprehension.
What is the Temporal lobe?
300
This symptom of aphasia involves substituting one word for another with a relating meaning, for example, saying "foot" instead of "shoe"
What is semantic paraphasia?
300
This raised area of the cortex is found between the occipital and parietal lobes. It is associated with the processing of written words.
What is the Angular Gyrus?
300
What a patient with aphasia substitutes a word or non-word for one that sounds similar.
What is a phonemic paraphasia?
400
This relatively new imaging technique has good spatial AND temporal resolution.
What is MEG (Magnetoencephalography)?
400
This area, in the same lobe as Broca's area, includes the cortex associated with control of the tongue muscles.
What is the primary motor cortex?
400
This type of non-fluent aphasia is named for the man who worked with Leborgne and predicted the lesions that was found in his brain posthumously.
What is Broca's aphasia?
400
A patient with a damage to this area of the brain usually exhibits halting, effortful speech that omits closed-class items such as auxiliaries and articles.
What is Broca's area?
400
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden right now
What is absolutely gorgeous?
500
This technology can be used to temporarily induce the effect of "lesions" in the brain.
What is TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)?
500
This adjective refers to neurological connections between one hemisphere of the brain and the opposite hemisphere of the body.
What is "contralateral"?
500
This type of paraphasia involves a substitution that is so far from the intended target word that it is difficult or impossible to determine what is meant.
What is a neologism (or neologistic paraphasia)?
500
This model of language in the brain is problematic because not all patients with aphasia fit cleanly into one category or another, and the place where their lesion is doesn't always correspond as predicted to the type of symptoms they present with.
What is the localizationist model?
500
If a "split-brain" patient were able to draw but not to name it, that would indicate that a stimulus was presented only to this.
What is the right hemisphere of the brain?
OR
What is the left visual field?