Neuron Biology
The part of the neuron that collects input from other neurons
Dendrites
How short-term memory becomes long-term memory
Through the process of encoding
What is a stroke?
Interruption of blood flow to the brain
This part of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord
The CNS
If my null hypothesis is that eating ice cream every day has no effect on mental health, what is a possible hypothesis?
Eating ice cream every day is good/bad/has an effect on mental health
This type of cell forms the blood-brain barrier
Astrocytes
Patient HM had this type of amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Difference between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia
Broca's aphasia patients have difficulty expression themselves, speaking in short phrases using mostly nouns and verbs, often omitting tenses, conjunctions, and prepositions, but have little impairment of comprehension. Wernicke's aphasia patients have no deficits in speech production, but the speech has almost no semantic content; they also had dramatic impairments in comprehension.
The primary cortex located in front of the central sulcus
The primary motor cortex
True or False: A p-value of 0.72 is considered statistically insignificant
True. P-values must be < 0.05 to be considered statistically significant
Molecules that make up the cell membrane, and their properties
Phospholipids, which hydrophilic phosphate heads and hydrophobic lipid tails
Recalling an event is an example of this type of memory
Declarative episodic memory
True or false: language is always lateralized in the left hemisphere
False
Define "the homunculus"
A distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map" of the areas and portions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor functions, and/or sensory functions, for different parts of the body (or something similar
What relationship does tcal have to p?
Inversely proportional. Larger tcal = smaller p
True or False: neurogenesis is impossible during adulthood
False
Repeating a string of numbers over and over is an example of what?
Maintenance rehearsal
Define the Wernicke-Geschwind model
Suggests that information is passed along through language structures in a linear pathway, and each section is responsible for a different aspect of language (or something similar)
Your left side of the brain might have difficulty communicating with the right side without this part of the brain.
Corpus callosum
True or False: All t-tests are parametric
True. All t-tests assume data is normally distributed.
Describe the central dogma of molecular biology
Flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA through transcription, then from RNA to proteins through translation (or something similar)
Procedural memory relies on this neural structure
How are second languages represented in the brain in late bilinguals?
No overlap in activation when using one language or another
Lateral fissure
Based on the figure, what is the effect of glial cells in cultures stimulated at the shown frequencies
Cells are able to sustain higher charges (or something similar)