CN midtern final
The primary auditory cortex is located in the
superior temporal lobe
~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.
~neglect
The main deficit in Balint’s syndrome is that patients can focus attention on only
one object at a time.
The primary benefit that the nervous system gains from myelination is
faster neural communication.
Demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis disrupt normal neural
communication by
causing deterioration of the fatty substance that normally coats and insulates axons.
Attention can be divided into two broad categories:
voluntary and reflexive.
This brain structure is often called the gateway to the cortex because almost all sensory
inputs synapse here before continuing to their primary cortical sensory areas.
thalamus
Communication between the two hemispheres of the brain occurs mainly through
the
corpus callosum.
Which of the following imaging techniques can be thought of as a three-
dimensional X-ray?
CT (computed tomography)
‘
, The term ________ refers to the operations involved when we select for further
processing a limited subset of information from the total information available to us from
our sensory systems and stored mental representations.
attention
The highest density of ________, or color-sensitive photoreceptors, can be found
in the ________ of the retina.
A. cones ; fovea
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?
Synesthesia
The primary visual pathway is best described as
o Rerina optic nerve optic chiasm -> thalamus occipital lobe
In the nervous system, these cells provide structural support and insulation for
neurons.
o Glia
Information about which of the following senses does NOT pass through the thalamus
on the way to the cortex?
o Olfaction
A patient has great difficulty in maintaining his posture, walking, and
coordinating his movements. His brain injuries probably involve the
o cerebellum.
The brainstem includes all of the following components EXCEPT the
o Hypothalamus
The value of the membrane potential to which an axon must be depolarized to initiate
an action potential is called the ________ potential for that neuron.
o Threshold
The nodes of Ranvier are
o?
The primary auditory cortex is located in the
superior temporal lobe
~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.
~neglect
The main deficit in Balint’s syndrome is that patients can focus attention on only
one object at a time.
The primary benefit that the nervous system gains from myelination is
faster neural communication.
Demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis disrupt normal neural
communication by
causing deterioration of the fatty substance that normally coats and insulates axons.
Attention can be divided into two broad categories:
voluntary and reflexive.
This brain structure is often called the gateway to the cortex because almost all sensory
inputs synapse here before continuing to their primary cortical sensory areas.
thalamus
Communication between the two hemispheres of the brain occurs mainly through
the
corpus callosum.
Which of the following imaging techniques can be thought of as a three-
dimensional X-ray?
CT (computed tomography)
‘
, The term ________ refers to the operations involved when we select for further
processing a limited subset of information from the total information available to us from
our sensory systems and stored mental representations.
attention
The highest density of ________, or color-sensitive photoreceptors, can be found
in the ________ of the retina.
A. cones ; fovea
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?
Synesthesia
The primary visual pathway is best described as
o Rerina optic nerve optic chiasm -> thalamus occipital lobe
In the nervous system, these cells provide structural support and insulation for
neurons.
o Glia
Information about which of the following senses does NOT pass through the thalamus
on the way to the cortex?
o Olfaction
A patient has great difficulty in maintaining his posture, walking, and
coordinating his movements. His brain injuries probably involve the
o cerebellum.
The brainstem includes all of the following components EXCEPT the
o Hypothalamus
The value of the membrane potential to which an axon must be depolarized to initiate
an action potential is called the ________ potential for that neuron.
o Threshold
The nodes of Ranvier are
o?
