Vision and Audition
When a blind individual uses auditory information such as shaking keys or snapping fingers to locate objects
What is echolocation?
The subjective experience that results from sensory processing
What is perception?
Your memory of how to ride a bicycle?
What is implicit memory?
Your knowledge that George Washington was the first president of the United States is an example of this type of explicit memory
What is semantic memory?
The psychological construct that describes our conscious, subjective feelings about a situation
What is affect?
The eardrum marks the boundary between the these two divisions of the anatomical ear
What are the middle and the outer ear?
Olfaction and gustation are known as "this type" of senses.
What are the chemical senses?
Our ability to use information that is outside awareness to guide our behaviors is known as this
What is unconscious interference?
The results of cases such as that of M.L. indicate that autobiographic memory may depend on networks of structures in the these lobes.
What are the frontal and temporal lobes?
The observation that people with spinal injuries report reduced experiences of emotion has been taken to support this hypothesis
What is the somatic marker hypothesis?
According to tonotopic theory different points on the basilar membrane represent these
What are different sound frequencies?
The common output of sensory transduction in all sensory systems
What are action potentials?
The Gollin incomplete-figures test is used to assess this, a category of implicit memory.
What is priming?
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that involves the loss of this neurotransmitter
What is acetylcholine?
The sight of a scowling human face would be MOST likely to lead to the greatest immediate increase in neural activity in which side of the amygdala?
What is the right side?
When you initially enter a dark movie theater, you can't see where the empty seats are located. However, after a couple of minutes, your eyes have adjusted to the darkness and you can easily determine where you can sit.This happens because this type of photoreceptor is fast-adapting
What are rods?
A patient who cannot locate the position of his limbs in space unless he is looking at them is suffering from a loss of this sense
What is proprioception?
H.M. suffered from damage to the medial area of which lobes.
What are the temporal lobes?
The anatomical model of implicit memory proposed by the authors supports a central role for this specific brain structure
What is the basal ganglia?
A key component of the emotion-processing pathway connecting the sensory-association cortex with the hypothalamus is this important structure for emotion
What is the amygdala?
The organ of corti is to hearing as this is to seeing.
What is the retina?
The area of the somatosensory cortex devoted to an area of the body surface is proportional to this property of sensory receptors in the area
What is density?
The acquisition of an associative memory for the pairing of a tone stimulus and an air puff to the eye depends on circuits in this part of the brain.
What is the cerebellum?
According to the HERA model, the right prefrontal cortex is particularly involved in episodic memory retrieval, whereas of the left prefrontal cortex is primarily involved in this process.
What is episodic memory encoding?
Learning responses that minimize the possibility of regrettable actions is associated with increased activity in the the amygdala and here
Where is the orbitofrontal cortex?