Exam 13: Cognitive Functions

 When a woman in a persistent vegetative state was told to imagine playing tennis, an fMRI of her brain showed increased activity in motor areas of her cortex, similar to what healthy volunteers showed.

 People with Broca's aphasia speak meaningfully but ____.

 Language studies with bonobo chimpanzees suggest that they ____.

 Jodee has Wernicke's aphasia. Her biggest challenge is with producing speech.

 In the phenomenon of binocular rivalry, when one eye sees one pattern and the other eye sees another, what do you perceive?

 What is the Stroop effect and how have researchers used it as a test of attention?

 Dr. Beeler is testing what happens when she presents her monkey with two similar choices that the monkey likes (eg., an apple slice or a banana slice). She has found that the monkey will have increased activity in the _____.

 Researchers have found that the planum temporale is _____ in the _____ for 65 percent of people.

 Studies of nonhuman language abilities call attention to the ____.

 Oscar is participating in a research study where he reports the color of the ink (eg., "blue") instead of reading the word written (eg., "red"). He is performing the _____ task and finds that he must not let his mind wander at all to get it right.

 Studies of nonhuman language abilities seem to indicate that human language may have evolved from a precursor that was probably ____.

 The strongest evidence for a critical period for human language development is the ____.

 Split-brain patients suffer ____.

 Several months after split-brain surgery, the number of incidents of conflicts between the two hemispheres diminishes because ____.

 Wilma had a loss of consciousness. When she first started to recover, she experienced _____.

 The left hemisphere is connected to skin receptors mainly on the ____ half of the body, and controls muscles mainly on the ____ side of the body.

 Dr. Marzano is testing his rats by playing a series of clicks and asking the rat to turn in the direction with the most clicks. If his rats have damage to the frontal orienting fields, they will _____.

 A loss of language ability, in general, is referred to as ____.

 People with right-hemisphere damage have particular trouble with tasks that require ____.

 A specific impairment of reading in a person with adequate vision and adequate skills in other academic areas is referred to as ____.