POSSIBLE EXAM QUESTIONS

A neurological case study reports a patient with a mediotemporal lobe and temporal lobe lesion

Nothing

A person who is awake

Is not always attentive

A person with hemispatial neglect syndrome

Usually has a lesion in the right inferior parietal lobe

A typical neurobiological disorder is except

Hypertension

A typical symptom of semantic dementia is

Impaired word recall

Absence fits are characterized by

Abrupt arrest in concentration

According to cognitive science associations

Do not, in and of themselves, explain mental functioning

According to recent assumptions, hippocampal pattern separation

Is performed by the dentate gyrus subfield of the hippocampus and supports the discrimination of mnemonic representations

According to the complex model of emotion

The dimensions of valence and arousal are orthogonal

An experiment rat has learned to give a conditioned fear response to conditioned stimuli, then as a result, the rats will slowly stop providing the fear response

Extinction

Atushi's experiment on monkeys showed that extensive use of tools for encoding food causes

An extension of the action field of the neurons

Aversive conditioning depends on the integrity of the

Amygdala

Bodily response reflecting stress reactions, like freezing

Central nucleus of the amygdala

Broca’s area is not responsible for it

Language comprehension

Cognition is not identical with

Conscious thinking

Cognitive neuroscience

Attempts to create biologically grounded models of cognition

Conceptual priming is

Not sensitive to perceptual manipulations

Consoldiation

Requires the hippocampus to support stabilizing neural representations of memor

Engram

Representation of a memory

The cortical area can demonstrate a tool-use-related expansion of action

Intraparietal sulcus

Critical period

The period during which a language can be learned on a native level declines after 7 years of age

Decibels are the measure of a sound’s

Amplitude

What demonstrates the most spatial resolution for studying brain function

Single-unit recording

During non-lucid dreaming

The ventromedial PFC is activated, and the dorsal lateral PFC is deactivated

EEG and Event Related Potentials are

The summation of dendritic field potentials of groups of neurons that vary together

Emotion regulation is conceptualized as

Performed by the ventromedial PFC

Event Related Potential

Relate Scalp electrical activity to cognitive events

False example of implicit memory

Writing correct

The Glasgow Coma Scale evaluates this function except

Gait

Humans can perceive biological motion as early as

3 months

Hypoxia

About 5 minutes

In a neural network, the delta rule is identical to the

Recorla Wagner Function

Not a level of language analysis

Philology

It does not hold for the cognitive approach

Unable and uninterested in the study of emotions

It is not a characteristic of human language

To secure clear and unambiguous form of transmitting information

Kluver-Bucy Syndrome is not characterized by

apathy

Language lateralization

The language system is more bilateral in females

Lesions in Wernicke’s Area typically do not impact

Language Productio

More anterior portions of the PFC are responsible for

Higher-order integration of response

Neglect and anosognosia are due to a lesion of the

Right temporoparietal junction

Neurons in the primary visual cortex are tuned to

orientation, motion direction, spatial frequency, color, and disparity

Neuropsychological examination of the frontal lobe

Drawing complex figures

Neuroscience is concerned with

The organization and function of animal and human nervous systems

Neuroscience with no cognition

It excels in providing descriptions of neural phenomenon but not explanations for mental operations

Not true about the beginnings of cognitive science

It suppressed behaviorism

Numerical processing

Happens in the intraparietal sulcus in human adults

Observations of Lhermitte OFC lesioned patients showed

Cue triggered automatic behavior

Processing music mostly involves

Perceptual skill learning

A buzzword

Cognitive about almost everything nowadays

One is wrong. Modularity means that

There is no considerable information processing beyond perceptual experience

One is wrong. The methodology of cognitive neuroscience is

Generalized from case studies

Parts of the central nervous system

Cranial nerves

PET and fMRI are similar in that they

Map local changes in metabolism and blood flow

Possible relationship between anatomy and function in the brain

Brain function cannot be linked to brain areas' specializations, which are epiphenomenal

A philosopher whose work on consciousness made an impact

Locke

Rapid success of two frames with less than 200 milliseconds

Beta Motion

Reaction time to incongruent trails in the Stroop task is

Relatively slower because the conceptual and perceptual information causes interference

Relevant for understanding

PTSD

Rule shifting is effectively measured by

The Wisconsin Card Sorting Task

Studies with the emotional version of the attention blink paradigm show that

Emotional cues are not only considered to be basic emotions

Symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, except

Diplopia 4th nerve

The auditory P300 wave provides evidence for

Late selection gating of targets during attention

The basal ganglia have critical roles in

Linking specific automatic behaviors to specific contexts

The border ownership discrimination is linked to which visual cortical areas

V2

The brain structure that plays a critical role in controlling alerness

Reticular Formation

The concept of efferent copy, according to the forward model, is

The copy of the expected sensory input as a result of impending motion

The DMN

A set of brain areas becomes active when someone is not engaged in an attentionally demanding task

The expression cells that fire together wire together conveys also that

Engrams may be formed via strengthening synaptic connections

The following brain regions necessary for intact episodic memory function

Hippocampus

The Glasgow Coma Scale evaluates except

Autonomic functions

The influence of attention on the processing of visual targets in a cued location is demonstrated by the major neural input to the human hippocampus, which is via –

Entorhinal Cortex

The influence of attention on the processing of visual targets in a cue's location is demonstrated by

Faster responses to cues in validly cues locations

The Karissa triangles are examples of demonstrating which illusory effect

The illusory contours

The limbic system of emotional processing was proposed by

Paul McLean

The mind-body questions

Reemerged in cognitive psychology, dominated by materialistic frameworks

The Morris Water Maze

Tested rats' declarative memory

The N400 is

Event-related potential that correlates with semantic processin

The neural effects of hearing occur in the

Inner ear

The possible organization of semantic memories has been described by several theories

Knowledge Theories

The representation map of the human body is

Homunculus

The Rescorla-Wagner model of classical conditioning computes

The change in the predicted value of the conditioned response

The right hemisphere is

Concerned with metaphor processing

The role of the frontal cortex is attentional control

Is a key component for executive control

Body size measurements suggest that

Humans, dolphins, and crows have larger brain sizes

What are the components of the efferent path of the largest sensory motor loop

Motor plan command muscles

What are the components of the sensory loop Sensory input, sensory prediction, and comparator

motor command muscles

What are the components of the short sensory motor loop

Sensory input, sensory prediction, comparator, motor command, muscles

What are the main contributing sources to consciousness

Language, body schema, memory, awareness

What are the three neurotransmitter systems of the monoaminergic family

Norepinephrine dopamine serotonin

What is Anosognosia

Unawareness of one's own medical condition

What is efferent copy

A copy of the predicted sensory outcome sent back to the comparator

What statement would be best applied to the age dependency of the theory of mind

Humans younger than 1 year old can take a cartoon character perspective

Which brain area activates first when waking up from anesthesia

Thalamus, locus coeruleus, anterior cingulate

Which cortical area is responsible for regulating muscle strength

Frontal lobe

Which is true

Stimuli with emotional valence generally enhance visual processin

Which nucleus is responsible for the suppression of muscle tone during sleep

Locus coeruleus

Which of the following is true for human brain development

The average weight of the male brain is larger than the female brain

Which of the following is true for MRI

Protons in hydrogen atoms in tissue

Which of the following is true of the cocktail party effect

We can selectively remember an auditory input