Do you Remember?
It may sound like TV, but this type of Memory has to do with a specific event the recaller witnessed personally. Hope the next season is good.
What is Episodic Memory
This term refers to the fact that some functions of the brain are handled in unequal manners between the hemispheres.
What is Lateralization
This animal has been shown to be able to communicate with humans by using a multitude of English words.
What is an African Grey Parrot?
This man suffered a horrible accident in the 1800's that left him with very little emotional processing ability. A tragedy for certain, thought studying the effects on him gave us a lot of early insight into emotional control in the brain.
Who was Phineas Gauge?
This is the specific term for the cause of someone's stress.
What is a Stressor?
I hope you already knew this kind of amnesia. If you didn't, trying to form a new memory of it now may be impossible.
What is Anterograde Amnesia
If this hemisphere is inactive, in any person, then they won't be able to name even simple objects.
What is the Language Dominant Hemisphere
This area of the brain is especially important for the production of language; though it has more recently been found that it is not the ONLY area responsible for this task.
What is Brocca's Area?
This is the region of the brain that was removed from monkeys making them develop the dangerous fearlessness known as Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
What is the Amygdala?
This is the branch of the nervous system who's activity may be measured by a Polygraph machine.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)?
This is what we call the process of one neuron becoming more able to activate another after repeated stimulation.
What is Long Term Potentiation
This is the term for the relationship between the hemisphere of the brain we are looking at, and the side of the body it controlls
What is Contraltteral?
This area was classically associated with the understanding of language; while important, it has been found that this area is not the only crucial portion.
What is Wernekie's area?
When encountering a potentially-threatening situation, one may use this term to describe the path information takes when you make a more logic-based assessment you have of the situation.
What is the High Road?
This system's activity is suppressed by stress; a concerning development since a failure of this system often leads to getting sick, which is itself quite stressful.
What is the Immune System?
This experiment involved dunking rats into water with an almost-invisible platform, and was used to demonstrate the importance of the Hippocampus for navigation.
What is the Morris Water Maze?
In most people, this part of the brain is MORE responsible for recognizing facial emotions.
What is the right hemisphere?
This term refers to someone having difficulty producing language.
What is Aphasia?
While there is a more general answer that people can often give, this more specific brain region is especially important for emotional regulation.
What is the Orbitofrontal Cortex?
Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone is the initiator of activity in this stress-related neurological system
What is the Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) Axis?
If the cerebellum of a creature is damaged, this kind of basiuc learning is likely to be disrupted
What is Classical Conditioning
if shown an item in the right visual field, this is the portion of the brain that would receive that information directly
What is the Left Hemisphere
While it is not fully supported anymore, we've recently learned that many more areas are important for language, this model added many more brain regions to our understanding of language including the Angular Gyrus.
What is the Wernicke-Geschwind model?
According to this, you would first feel the physical sensation of being afraid, such as your heartbeat speeding up or your pals sweating, and only after experiencing this psychical feeling would your brain decide that you are in fact afraid.
What is the James-Lang Theory?
The Hypothalamus has an abundance of these, which serve to detect the presence of Cortisol
What are Glutocorticoid Receptors?