The Brain Quiz

A  cephalocaudal emergence

B  proximolateral functioning

C  ipsilateral control

D  contralateral representation

A  basal ganglia

B  putamen

C  pyramidal tracts

D  substantial nigra

A  the amygdala

B  the medulla

C  the pons

D  the hypothalamus

A  the frontal lobe – visual processing

B  the parietal lobe – smell (olfactory) processing

C  temporal lobe – auditory processing

D  occipital lobe – the somatosensory cortex

A  brain stem

B  reticular activating system

C  limbic system

D  basal ganglia

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

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

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

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

A  larger for body parts that develop early in the fetus

B  larger for body areas requiring greater sensitivity

C  present only on the left side of the brain

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

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

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

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

D  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.

A  a lexicon

B  a nomenclature

C  an idiograph

D  a thesis

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  lesions

B  a visual cortex

C  DNA

D  “split-brain”

A  the pons, the medulla, and the cerebellum

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

C  the thalamus and the hypothalamus

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

A  case study

B  neural plasticity

C  phrenology

D  converging evidence

A  metabolite

B  mineral

C  amino acid

D  essential element

A  thalamus

B  frontal lobes

C  parietal lobes

D  temporal lobes

A  100,000-150,000

B  1 to 2 trillion

C  500 million

D  100 billion

A  the corpus callosum

B  the reticular activating system

C  the cerebellum

D  the hypothalmus

A  reticular formation

B  thalamus

C  corpus callosum

D  medulla

A  computed tomography (a CT scan)

B  positron emission tomography (a PET scan)

C  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

D  functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)