Frontal Lobe
the high-level cognitive processes that facilitate new ways of behaving, and optimize one’s approach to unfamiliar circumstances
What is executive function?
reduced awareness of stimuli on one side of space, even though there may be no sensory loss
What is hemispatial neglect?
What is the amygdala?
V1
What is the primary visual cortex?
This person really hates the parietal lobe
Who is Gabriel Reyes?
The ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization
What is neuroplasticity?
This divides the parietal lobe from the frontal lobe
What is the Central Sulcus?
The test that captures subtle biases
What is the Implicit Association Test?
This area helps with recognizing visual stimuli
What is the visual association cortex?
This person cannot make new memories after surgery that removed their hippocampus
Who is Henry Molaison?
This study used this training intervention to improve reading scores
What is musical training?
A neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out skilled movements and gestures, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform them.
What is apraxia?
The part of the amygdala that receives information from the thalamus and cortex
What is the lateral nuclei of the amygdala?
Damage to visual association areas causes this
Visual agnosia
A Mexican neuroscientist at Yale that studies animal cognition, famous for giving a talking on economic irrationality in monkeys
Who is Dr. Laurie Santos?
Schizophrenics cannot do this. Alcoholics cannot do this. Frontal lobe patients cannot do this.
What is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task?
In this, the size of a body part in the picture corresponds to the amount of the brain devoted to it
What is the cortical homunculus?
After training, the bell causes salivation
What is a conditioned stimulus?
This blocks visual information from the upper hemisphere to go straight to cortex
What is the lateral ventrical?
This professor planted a false memory in a rodent
Who is Dr. Steve Ramirez?
"I.....
stroke....
reading.........."
(Hint: Broadman Areas 44 and 45)
What is Broca's Aphasia?
2 + 2 = 5
This releases cortisol from the HPA axis
What is the adrenal cortex
The number of passes the team in white made
13
These students took Gabriel's Cog Neuro class
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