The Brain and the Phonological Loop
What part of the brain may be activated when you rehearse verbal material?
What is the left frontal lobe?
What does TMS stand for?
What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?
How many types of sentences were tested in Lauro's study?
What are three types?
What part of the brain may be activated when you store auditory information?
What is the left parietal lobe?
Is TMS an invasive or non-invasive procedure?
What is non-invasive?
Other than TMS, what procedure did Lauro use?
What is a sham procedure?
Which hemisphere is more likely to process language?
What is the left hemisphere?
What does TMS do?
What is briefly stimulates a specific location on the cortex by using a magnetic field?
What is a sham procedure?
A procedure that resembles TMS that does not involve any stimulation.
What is the working memory system?
What mental process does TMS briefly interfere with?
What is information processing?
What step in the study occurred after the participants were exposed to TMS or the sham procedure?
The participants were shown a sentence that was accompanied by a sketch.
What parts of the brain are activated when completing phonological-loop tasks?
What are the left frontal lobe and left parietal lobe?
Who used TMS to study how the phonological loop processes language?
Who is Romero Lauro and her colleagues?
What are the left frontal lobe and the left parietal lobe?