Memory: Pathways and Disorders
The term used to refer to losing memory for events prior to the neurological disturbance.
What is retrograde amnesia?
Damage to ___ was associated with a patient who could only say the word "Tan."
What is Broca's Area?
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What is the Insular Cortex?
In addition to walking home, what sport did a seemingly unconscious patient imagine to indicate that she was "locked-in"?
What is tennis?
The process in which the brain rhythmically selects relevant parts of the scene, modulated by low frequency waves.
What is attentional sampling?
The age the PFC is fully developed.
What is 25?
When someone has Alzheimer's disease, their brain shows extensive __.
What is atrophy?
Global aphasia, characterized by severe perception and production deficits, falls under the category of ___ aphasia.
What is non-fluent?
A disorder of selective attention characterized by a deficit in attending to the contralesional side of space.
What is unilateral neglect?
In the study on hippocampal microstructures, the researchers used this imaging technique that employs low-frequency vibrations to measure the stiffness of biological tissues.
What is Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE)?
The psychological method where you ask someone for a large favor first, then a small one after.
What is the door-in-the-face method?
Korsakoff's disease, associated with a lack of orientation to time and place, is caused by ___.
What is alcoholism?
Also acceptable: What is shrinking of thalamus and/or mammillary bodies?
The inability to come up with the name of something (i.e. tip of the tongue)
What is anomia?
An intervention used to induce improvement in patients in a minimally conscious state.
What is Deep Brain Stimulation?
The theory, with evidence to support it, that hippocampal neurons serve as pointers to different elements of an episode (hint: cafe).
What is indexing theory?
What is Memento?
The creature used in an experiment showing that pairing odor and a shock led to faster death times, in the absence of food and water, due to increased metabolic costs of structural changes associated with memory.
What is a fruit fly?
In addition to suggesting that dogs recognize the content of words, this language experiment showed that ___ is not exclusive to humans.
What is language lateralization on the left side of the brain?
Also known as top-down processing, ____ is when you focus on goal-relevant information.
What is endogenous control?
Unlike studies on other languages, an experiemnt on literacy and Hindi/Devangari did not show that literacy increased brain response in speech processing areas. It did, however, show function connectivity of acoustic-phonetic and ___ cortices.
What is graphomotor?
Name of the baby who was classically conditioned in a psychological experiment to be scared of all furry animals.
Who is Little Albert?