The Brain Quiz

A  proximolateral functioning

B  ipsilateral control

C  cephalocaudal emergence

D  contralateral representation

A  putamen

B  basal ganglia

C  pyramidal tracts

D  substantial nigra

A  the hypothalamus

B  the pons

C  the amygdala

D  the medulla

A  the parietal lobe – smell (olfactory) processing

B  the frontal lobe – visual processing

C  occipital lobe – the somatosensory cortex

D  temporal lobe – auditory processing

A  basal ganglia

B  brain stem

C  limbic system

D  reticular activating system

A  The occipital lobe is smaller than the other cerebral lobes, so it can’t process as much information.

B  The thalamus, which directs information to the brain, can only filter so much information at any one moment in time.

C  The hypothalamus sets up an opponent process so that certain incoming visual information “blocks” other incoming visual information.

D  The neurons in your visual cortex are wired in an inhibitory way.

A  larger for body areas requiring greater sensitivity

B  present only on the left side of the brain

C  directly related to the motor functions on the same side of the body

D  larger for body parts that develop early in the fetus

A  It provides both high spatial and temporal resolution, where other types of neuroimaging can only provide one or the other.

B  It does not require the use of a restrictive apparatus that can cause claustrophobic responses, while all other forms of neuroimaging do require this apparatus.

C  It takes only minutes to use while other neuroimaging studies can take hours.

D  It is extremely inexpensive to perform, while other types of neuroimaging can be very costly.

A  a lexicon

B  an idiograph

C  a thesis

D  a nomenclature

A  When a person undergoes neuroimaging, these parts of the brain show up as white in an fMRI or CT scan.

B  Blood does not flow to these parts of the brain and so they remain white.

C  The high level of oxygenation in these cells causes them to have a whitish hue.

D  These cells are covered with myelin, which is a fatty sheath that has a whitish color.

A  DNA

B  lesions

C  “split-brain”

D  a visual cortex

A  the thalamus, hypothalamus, midbrain, pons, and medulla

B  the cerebral hemispherses, including the cortex, the white matter and the subcortical structures

C  the thalamus and the hypothalamus

D  the pons, the medulla, and the cerebellum

A  case study

B  converging evidence

C  phrenology

D  neural plasticity

A  mineral

B  metabolite

C  amino acid

D  essential element

A  parietal lobes

B  frontal lobes

C  temporal lobes

D  thalamus

A  100 billion

B  1 to 2 trillion

C  100,000-150,000

D  500 million

A  the hypothalmus

B  the corpus callosum

C  the reticular activating system

D  the cerebellum

A  reticular formation

B  corpus callosum

C  medulla

D  thalamus

A  functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

B  computed tomography (a CT scan)

C  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

D  positron emission tomography (a PET scan)