Constructing Representation
The sound of birds singing, the smell of coffee, and sunlight seeping in through a window are all examples of?
Stimuli
What does fMRI stand for?
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
What portion of the frontal lobe is vital for speech production and identified during the autopsy of Patient Tan?
Broca's area
Where is the Prefrontal Cortex located, and is it one of the first regions to fully develop?
Making sense of one's thought process and those of others is known as...
Mentalizing
This is used to interpret perceptions through comparison.
What are prior experiences?
This region is located on the underside of the temporal lobe and is critical in recognizing faces.
What is the fusiform face area (FFA)?
What is the definition of non-fluent aphasia, and where have these patients experienced damage to?
Damage to the left frontal lobe produces a condition where patients comprehend spoken language, although complex sentence comprehension can be poor.
Working memory depends on what two areas?
The Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) and the parietal lobe
True or False: Activity in the PFC is especially important in overriding emotional responses in decision-making.
True
A form of declarative knowledge that includes general facts and data.
What is Semantic Memory?
Issues identifying and recognizing visual stimuli fall under the condition called...
Agnosia
Allowing adjustments to current behavior depending on current required conditions is known as...
Shifting or mental flexibility
In a person declining a small monetary reward given immediately in favor of receiving a larger reward in the future, is the lateral PFC more or less active?
More active.
What area of the brain do "concept cells" reside in, and what does that area specialize in?
The temporal lobe, which specializes in object recognition.
What three areas encode words (not written laguage)?
The posterior parietal cortex, parts of the temporal lobe, and regions in the prefrontal cortex (PFC)
Wenicke's aphasia is also known as ___, patients with this understand short individual words and speech can be ____ in tone and has ___ errors.
fluent, normal-sounding, many
Executive function is a blend of what three skills?
Inhibition, working memory, and shifting
What region of the brain focuses on making judgments regarding others and not oneself?
The temporoparietal junction or TPJ.
In the case of patient D.B.O., why could he only identify 1 in 20 different objects?
Ensure to include cause and effect.
He suffered a series of multiple strokes, preventing visual input from being conveyed to the anterior temporal regions.
When viewing an image with buildings and particular scenes, what area of the brain is responding to this information?
The parahippocampal place area
Damage to the superior temporal lobes in both hemispheres leads to what type of aphasia?
Pure word Deafness
True or False: The activity level associated with executive function increases as children and adolescents mature.
False, it decreases