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.