Exam 4: Neuroplasticity

Attardi and Sperry discovered that the brain spread out to utilize the entire optic tectum after removing half of a frog's: A)depression

As a baby has more exposure to her mother tongue, she loses to ability to distinguish between:

Imagine that you lost an arm, and your brain rewired itself so that the neighboring face representation took over the area of your brain that used to represent your arm. What might happen when someone touches particular areas of your face?

Your brain would not change and success in learning a new task would be impaired if:

Demonstrating that visual input can be successfully interpreted by auditory cortex demonstrates the incredible _____ of the brain.

A three-year-old will fare much better than a fourteen-year-old when trying to learn:

The brain is unable to rewire itself using less than the normal amount of brain tissue.

Covering the dominant eye of a human once the sensitive period has passed will result in:

Homunculus is the term for the way your brain:

Cells dying in an uncontrolled fashion is called:

Neural responses to a stroke include:

What kind of reorganization goes on in the brain of a congenitally blind person?

Sperry's experiments lead to the chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that axons find their way to targets based on:

When the area of your cortex that previously sent information about a now missing limb sends current information to other areas of your brain, you may experience:

What are two kinds of cell death? Why is it beneficial that some cells die?

The release of ________ increases the brain's plasticity.

A person may experience less brain function due to tissue damage and swelling after suffering from:

Neurotrophins are responsible for:

Both playing a sport and changing your career will alter:

Tinnitus, or a constant ringing in the ear, is an example of an _____ phantom sensation.