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This institution, founded in 1895, is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States.
What is the Bronx Zoo?
In an auditory oddball task, these are the more frequent tones that participants hear most of the time.
What are standard tones?
This song was released in 1994 by iconic pop star Mariah Carey.
What is “All I Want for Christmas Is You”?
In CAPD, difficulty often appears when processing this complex auditory signal, even when hearing sensitivity is normal.
What is speech?
This part of the brain, only about the size of a lima bean, is responsible for detecting threats and triggering fear.
What is the amygdala?
Lincoln Center is home to this internationally acclaimed ballet company.
What is New York City Ballet?
High electrode impedance most commonly increases this undesirable signal property.
What is noise?
“Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet” is a lyric from this upbeat 1950s Christmas song.
What is “Jingle Bell Rock”?
ADT works primarily by reducing the body’s levels of this hormone.
What is testosterone?
This brain phenomenon allows your brain to “rewire” itself in response to experiences, practice, or injury.
What is neuroplasticity?
Central Park is larger than this European country.
What is Monaco?
These brainwaves are strongest when you’re relaxed with your eyes closed.
What are alpha waves?
In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", one of the gifts mentioned celebrates this many pipers piping.
What is eleven?
This co-occurring condition is common in both ASD and CAPD, complicating diagnosis and treatment.
What is ADHD?
This part of the brain helps you make decisions, control impulses, and not say everything you’re thinking out loud.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Times Square is at the intersection of these two major NYC streets.
What are Broadway and Seventh Avenue?
This famous EEG component appears around 150–250ms after a deviant sound and reflects the brain’s automatic detection of something novel.
What is MMN (Mismatch Negativity)?
Michael Bublé sang “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” as a duet with this Broadway star.
Who is Idina Menzel?
This type of therapy is used in tinnitus management to help reduce distress or anxiety.
What is Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
This “relay station” sends sensory information to the appropriate cortical areas and is often called the brain’s switchboard.
What is the thalamus?
The Met’s permanent collection contains over this many works of art spanning 5,000 years.
What is over 2 million?
This technique helps isolate brain activity from artifacts by separating the EEG signal into statistically independent components.
What is ICA (Independent Component Analysis)?
This Russian composer wrote the music for the beloved ballet The Nutcracker, which premiered in 1892.
Who is Tchaikovsky (or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)?
Chemotherapy can affect cognitive function; this term describes long-term learning or attention difficulties.
What is “chemo brain”?
This process reduces weaker or unused neural connections during early development to enhance learning and circuit specialization.
What is synaptic pruning?