Vision
An area of the brain in which visual processing takes place?
occipital lobe
Broca's area is one of the main areas of the cerebral cortex responsible for______________
Speech production
_______is memory that has no capacity limits and holds information from minutes to an entire lifetime
Long-term memory
Which part of our brain helps to keep posture and balance?
Cerebellum
Visual simultagnosia, optic ataxia and oculomotor apraxia are all symptoms of ______?_________
Balint Syndrome
Fusiform area is located in
Temporal lobe
True or false: In Wernicke's aphasia, comprehension is good but speech is poor.
False. comprehension is poor, but speech is fluent.
What is it called when you have both retrograde and anterograde amnesia?
Global or total amnesia.
Supplementary motor area is responsible for____
controlling actions, which have already planned
part of a brain that plays a critical role in emotional learning and generating appropriate responses to environmental cues.
Amygdala
The pathway responsible for object perception and recognition
Ventral
Wernicke's area is located in________
Temporal lobe
The term for the condition when a person cannot form new memories
Anterograde Amnesia
Which area of a brain is responsible for producing movement sequences?
Premotor cortex
The growth of new neurons is called_________
Neurogenesis
A disorder characterized by poor object recognition
____ _____ _____
Associative visual agnosia
Patient X has some specific type of aphasia, he experiences a problem with word finding, but has no problem with comprehention
Anomia
What is serial position effect?
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list
Which region of a brain is involved in Planning, Control, and Execution of Voluntary Movement?
Primary Motor Cortex
Elizabeth Loftus is associated with what kind of psychological phenomenon?
False memory
inability to perceive movement
Akinetognosia
A disorder characterized by difficulty controlling muscles used in speech
Dysarthria
Two types of explicit memory
semantic and episodic
The prefrontal cortex is responsible for_________
planning movements.
A state of confusion or memory loss that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury is called__________
POST-TRAUMATIC AMNESIA