Exam 13: Cognitive Functions

 Lateralization refers to the ____.

 Damage to the human left optic nerve before it crosses the optic chiasm would result in the loss of vision in the ____.

 Blair is having to choose between choices A and B. Normally, A would be the best choice. But given the circumstances, B would be the best choice right now. Blair will be able to make the best choice because his _____ will override his _____.

 Pictures of the person you love will produce increased activation of certain brain areas associated with ____.

 Damage to the corpus callosum prevents ____.

 What can we learn about human language abilities from the studies of nonhuman language abilities?

 Which of the following is more likely to be present in people with dyslexia?

 When people perceive themselves as being threatened, oxytocin ____.

 A split-brain patient is someone who has had their ____.

 Observations of people with Williams syndrome indicate that language is not simply a by-product of overall intelligence.

 The left and right hemispheres exchange information through a set of axons called the corpus callosum.

 The planum temporale is located in the ____.

 Danelle is trying to make a perceptual decision. Based on research, scientists would expect that she would have activity in her frontal orienting fields while trying to decide.

 Prepositions, conjunctions, helping verbs, and so forth are known as the ____ of grammatical forms.

 The inborn mechanism for learning language is called the ____.

 Someone with Broca's aphasia has the greatest difficulty ____.

 The view that everything that exists is physical is known as ____.

 Which task are split-brain patients likely to perform better than other people?

 Professor Prost tells her class that _____ is/are uncrossed in the brain.

 Damage to the left hemisphere is more likely than right hemisphere damage to impair which ability?