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| what is the cerebral cortex |
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| in what lobe is Broca's area |
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| in what lobe is the primary sensory cortex |
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| in what lobe is Wernicke's |
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| the cortex that covers most of the cerebral hemispheres |
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| how many cellular layers/lamina in the neocortex |
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| how is each layer of the neocortex distinct |
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| each layer has distinct populations of cells with different shapes, sizes, inputs, and outputs |
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| in what neocortical layer are there many stellate neurons |
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| what neocortical layers are concentrated with pyramidal neurons |
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| does the cortex always have 6 layers |
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| how many layers in archicortex |
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| what does the paleocortex cover |
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| ventral surface of the cerebral hemispheres |
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| how many layers in the paleocortex |
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| what is the functional significance of having different cortical layers |
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| unknown; probably reflects more complex information processing |
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| describe neocortical circuitry |
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| each cortical layer has specific output targets and each layer is a specific input target. They project to certain places, and they receive projections from certain places |
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| what is another term for Brodmann's areas |
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| how are brodmann's areas divided |
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| the areas are histologically and functionally distinct. The inputs, outputs, and layers in one brodmann's area are the same |
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| in what area is the primary visual cortex |
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| what brodmann's areas is broca's |
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| what is the brodmann's area for wernicke's |
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| what is the brodmann's area for primary motor complex |
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| what is the brodmann's area for premotor cortex |
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| what are the brodmann's areas for primary sensory |
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| define the association cortices |
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| areas of the cortex not involved with encoding sensory information commanding movements. Not motor/sensory/hearing/vision |
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| where are the association cortices |
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| cerebral sufrface of the brain |
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| what are association cortices responsible for |
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| cognitive human processes |
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| the process by which we come to learn our world: our ability to attend to complex stimuli, identify the significant features of the stimuli, and plan responses to the stimuli |
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| what mental processes do the association cortices support |
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| the ones that make us human: fear, anger, attraction, emotions, memory |
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| in what lobes are the association areas concerned with cognition |
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| parietal, temporal, frontal |
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| why isn't the occipital lobe concerned with cognition |
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| main responsibilit = vision |
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| what do the association cortices receive and integreate |
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| information from a variety of sources |
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| what else must association cortices doe |
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| project to and influence a broad range of cortical and subcortical targets |
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| are there inputs and outputs to/from the association cortices |
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| is everything in the association cortices connected to everything else |
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| no. each association cortex has distinct connections |
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| how have neurosciences made inferences about the specific function of assication cortices |
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| observations of patients with cortical lesions. Certain things happen to people when they damage certain regions of their brains |
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| what do lesions of the parietal association cortex result in |
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| deficits in attention to the world around us and attention and perceptoin of our own body |
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| what is contralateral neglect syndrome caused by |
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| what happens in contralateral neglect syndrome |
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| unable to attend to or perceive objects or even ones own body in a part of space despite being able to see it visually |
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| in contralateral neglect syndrombe, is the the deficit on the same side or other side of the lesion |
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| what is the diagnosis for someone who only shaves one side of their facebecause they don't perceive it even though they can feel, touch, see it |
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| contralateral neglect syndrome |
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| if someone has a right parietal stroke that causes contraltearl neglect syndrome, can it improve |
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| is contralateral neglect more common with damage to right or left parietal lobe |
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| more common with damage to right parietal lobe |
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| why is contralteral negelect syndrome more commonly associated with damage to the right parietal cortex |
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| the rigth parietal cortex mediates attention to both the left and right halves of the body/space. The left parietal cortex medaites attetion only to the right. If you damage the left parietal cortex, the right parietal cortex can help it out a little. If you damage the right parietal cortex, there is no help. |
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| what are the effects of a right parietal lesion |
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| severe neglect on left side |
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| what is the result of a left parietal lesion |
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| meinimal neglect on right sid |
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| what is the dominant hemisphere for knowing what's going on around you |
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| what is the location of lesions that typically result in contralateral neglect syndrome |
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| what compensates lesions in the left parietal lobe |
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| which hemisphere is the dominant one to govern attention and awareness |
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| what is the result of lesions in the frontal association cortex |
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| deficits in planning and executing normal behavior |
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| what does the frontal association cortex have a wider range of functions than other neocortical areas |
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| what does damage to frontal lobe result in |
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| what is frontal lobe responsible for |
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| personality: planning and executing normal behaviors |
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| what does damage to the basilar part of the frontal lobe result in |
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| what does damage to the dorsolateral/convex portion of the frontal lobe do |
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| renders patients indifferent, apathetic |
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| what does damage to theorbitofrontal portion of the frontal lobe do |
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| impaired judgment, loss of inhibitions, hard to get along with |
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| what do lesions of the temporal association cortex result in |
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| difficulty recognizing, identifying, and naming different categories of objects |
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| disorders in which you have difficulty recognizing, identifying, and naming different categories of objects |
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| inability to recognize and identify faces following temporal lobe damage |
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| damage to which part of which temporal lobe results in prosopagnosia |
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| damage to inferior right temporal lobe |
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| what determines whether an agnosia is for human faces or familiar objects |
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| location and size of the lesion |
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| why might someone have their corpus callosum surgically cut |
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| how many axons go through the corpus callosum to connect the hemispheres of the brain |
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| which side of the brain is language dominant |
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| in a split brain patient, if an object was placed in the right hand, could the patient say what it is without seeing it |
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| yes. It is sensed by the left hemisphere, and the left hemisphere is the language dominant hemisphere so the person can sense what the object is and say what it is. |
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| in a split brain patient, if an object was placed in the left hand, could the patient say what it is without seeing it |
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| no. the sensory information goes to the right side of the brain, but that information can't be passed to the left side of the brain to be processed as language |
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| which side of the brain specializes in the emotional coloring of language |
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| which side and location of the brain is important for perception of space |
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| what is a hemorrhagic stroke |
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| blood vessel bursts. Blood pours out into a specific region of the brain |
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| what happens in an embolitic stroke |
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| embolism lodges. Everything downstream becomes ischemic |
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| how long can neurologic repair take |
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