Exam 14: Cognitive Functions

People born without a corpus callosum are ____ people who have it cut later in life

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

In most humans, control of language is centered in the:

Studies of nonhuman language abilities call attention to the:

The planum temporale is larger in the:

Damage to the optic nerve after it had crossed in the optic chiasm would result in the loss of vision in the:

The first to publish a detailed description linking a specific part of the brain to a loss of speech was:

Wernicke's aphasia is to ____ as Broca's aphasia is to ____.

Experimenters present stimuli very briefly under conditions where people sometimes perceive them consciously and sometimes not. How, if at all, do the brain responses differ?

In most people, the right hemisphere is dominant for speech.

The training of Kanzi differed from the earlier language studies using other chimpanzees in that Kanzi:

The major differences that exist between adults and children in learning a second language are that children are:

Prepositions, word endings, and grammar are to ____, as nouns and verbs are to ____.

One of the main problems in determining if nonhuman species have language is being able to accurately define what language is.

Wernicke discovered that damage to the ____ cortex produced language impairment.

When does someone with Broca's aphasia have most difficulty understanding language?

Following damage to the ____, a patient has a decrease in facial expressions of emotion and decreased understanding of the emotional content of other people's speech.

Suppose you are conscious of what you see in the right eye and not the left. Now a word slowly fades into view in the left eye. What happens?

Normally, a split-brain patient should be able to name an object flashed to the left visual field.

Which of the following, if any, is impossible for the parrot Alex?