Neurons
Branching part of a neuron that typically receives stimulation from other neurons.
What are the dendrites?
"White matter" structure that connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus collosum?
Nsame of the term used by Brodmann to describe his analysis of brain areas.
What is cytoarchitectionics?
Damage to this structure procduces amnesia -- an impairment of memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Name of the technique that can produce a temporary "lesion" in a normal person's brain.
What is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?
Part of the neuron that actively transmits action potentials.
What is the axon?
This cortical lobe is heavily involved in sptial processing.
What is the parietal lobe?
Name of the "little persons" that are represented in the primary somatosensory and primary motor cortex.
What are the sensory and motor homunculi?
Name and location of the area that results in non-fluent/expressive aphasia.
What is Broca's area in the frontal lobe?
The neuroimaging technique called track-weighted imaging (aka diffusion tensor imaging) produces images of this.
What are the brain's white matter pathways.
Name of the substance that insulates and speeds up Action Potentials.
What is myelin sheath?
The cortical lobe that contains the primary motor area.
What is the frontal lobe?
Name of the three types of cortex that Luria claimed were always involved in processing sensory information.
What are the primary, secondary, and tertiary (association) cortex?
This condition is also known as "face blindness".
What is prosopagnosia?
A time-locked average of multiple EEG traces is known as an ______________________.
What is an event-related potential (ERP)?
General name for the cells that support the health and functioning of neurons.
What are glial cells?
Part of the forebrain that mediates skilled motor movements and habits.
What are the basal ganglia?
Name of the procedure by which many neural networks were first identified.
What is resting state fMRI.
Condition in which a patient fails to attend to half of their world.
What is hemi-spatial neglect?
Both PET and fMRI are forms of ________________, becuase both show the brain areas that are active when perfoming a task.
What is functional neuroimaging?
Where action potentials begin.
What is the axon hillock?
Limbic structure that helps the prefrontal cortex implement executive functions by signalling conflict.
What is the (anterior) cingulate cortex.
Neural network associated with daydreaming and mind wandering.
What is the Default Mode Network?
Part of the brain that is damaged in a patient with visual agnosia.
What is the inferior temporal lobe (aka. the what stream).
Pattern of data in which patient X can perform task A but not B, while patient Y can perform task B but not A.
What is a double-dissociation?