Chapter 2 PSYC2501
The neuron doctrine is ______
in disagreement with nerve net theory
Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure. Josiah may have damage to his ______
Broca's Area
The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as _______
Cognitive Neuroscience
An oscilloscope can display "spikes" that correspond to nerve impulses in response to a certain stimulus intensity. If the stimulus intensity is decreased, you are likely to observe spikes that are....
Less frequent and of the same size
Which of the following do PET and fMRI have in common?
The use of the subtraction technique
Which of the following statements best describes how neurons communicate with one another?
a chemical process takes place in the synapse
A specific person's face is represented in the nervous system by the firing of
a group of neurons each responding to a number of different faces
Recordings from single neurons are conducted using which of these pieces of equipment?
Microelectrode
Action potentials occur in the ______
axon
The key structural components of neurons are _______
cell body, dendrites, axon
Brain imaging has made it possible to ______
determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes
Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's research provided early evidence for ________
localization of function
Compared to brain-imaging techniques, ERP occurs on a _______
much faster time scale
The idea of a grandmother cell is consistent with ________
specificity coding
the occipital love is ______
the first place in the cerebral cortex where visual information is received.