COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE EXAMINATION
MATERIALS TEST BANK FOR THE BIOLOGY OF
THE MIND FIFTH EDITION
©Which area of the body has the greatest amount of representation in
the human primary somatosensory cortex? Answer: Lips
©The primary visual pathway is best described as Answer: Retina-
optical nerve-optic chiasma-thalamus-occipital lobe
©Which term is used to describe an idiosyncratic union between or
within sensory modalities, such as experiencing the color red whenever
seeing the letter A? Answer: Synesthesia
©Which of the following is the best example of cortical plasticity?
Answer: The processing of tactile information by blind people in cortical
regions that process visual information in sighted people
©The main deficit in Balint's syndrome is that patients can focus
attention on only Answer: One object at a time
©________ refers to the ability to choose certain sensory inputs for
further information processing while ignoring others Answer: Selective
attention
, ©Attention can be divided into two broad categories: Answer: Voluntary
and reflexive
©Patients with extinction are unable to detect a visual stimulus
presented on the contralesional side of space if Answer: This stimulus is
presented at the same time as a stimulus on the ipsilesional side of the
visual field
©The involuntary failure to attend to sensory stimuli presented on the
side of space opposite to the site of brain injury (in the absence of
sensory problems) is called ________ syndrome. Answer: Neglect
©When Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978) asked patients with the neglect
syndrome to describe their own mental images of the Italian city in
which they lived, the researchers found that Answer: The patients also
neglected the contralesional side of their own mental images
©During a particularly boring lecture, you carefully note the time on a
clock that is mounted on the side wall of the classroom while keeping
your eyes fixated on the professor's face. This is an example of Answer:
Covert Attention
©To explain dichotic listening findings such as the observation that a
participant usually notices when his or her own name is embedded in the
MATERIALS TEST BANK FOR THE BIOLOGY OF
THE MIND FIFTH EDITION
©Which area of the body has the greatest amount of representation in
the human primary somatosensory cortex? Answer: Lips
©The primary visual pathway is best described as Answer: Retina-
optical nerve-optic chiasma-thalamus-occipital lobe
©Which term is used to describe an idiosyncratic union between or
within sensory modalities, such as experiencing the color red whenever
seeing the letter A? Answer: Synesthesia
©Which of the following is the best example of cortical plasticity?
Answer: The processing of tactile information by blind people in cortical
regions that process visual information in sighted people
©The main deficit in Balint's syndrome is that patients can focus
attention on only Answer: One object at a time
©________ refers to the ability to choose certain sensory inputs for
further information processing while ignoring others Answer: Selective
attention
, ©Attention can be divided into two broad categories: Answer: Voluntary
and reflexive
©Patients with extinction are unable to detect a visual stimulus
presented on the contralesional side of space if Answer: This stimulus is
presented at the same time as a stimulus on the ipsilesional side of the
visual field
©The involuntary failure to attend to sensory stimuli presented on the
side of space opposite to the site of brain injury (in the absence of
sensory problems) is called ________ syndrome. Answer: Neglect
©When Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978) asked patients with the neglect
syndrome to describe their own mental images of the Italian city in
which they lived, the researchers found that Answer: The patients also
neglected the contralesional side of their own mental images
©During a particularly boring lecture, you carefully note the time on a
clock that is mounted on the side wall of the classroom while keeping
your eyes fixated on the professor's face. This is an example of Answer:
Covert Attention
©To explain dichotic listening findings such as the observation that a
participant usually notices when his or her own name is embedded in the
