Quiz #3: CH. 2 Cognitive Neuroscience

Action potential occurs in the...

Axon.

Groups of neurons or structures that are connected within the nervous system are called ________.

Neural network.

The concept of distributed neural coding proposes that a specific object, like a face, is represented across a number of...

Neurons.

The fusiform face area (FFA) in the brain is often damaged in patients with...

Prosopagnosia.

If the intensity of a stimulus that is presented to a touch receptor is increased, this tends to increase the _____ in the receptor's axon.

Rate of nerve firing.

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 key structural components of neurons are...

Cell body, dendrites, and axon.

The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as...

Cognitive neuroscience.

Early studies of brain tissue that used staining techniques and microscopes from the 19th century described the "nerve net." These early understandings were in error in the sense that the nerve net was believed to be...

Continuous.

Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's research provided early evidence for...

Localization of function.