Neuroscience Quiz

Auditory stimulation is first processed in the _______ lobes.

• frontal

• temporal

• occipital

• parietal

• cerebellum

The surgical removal of a large tumor from Dane's occipital lobe resulted in extensive loss of brain tissue. Dane is most likely to suffer some loss of

• pain sensations.

• speaking ability.

• muscular coordination.

• visual perception.

In a clinical trial of neural prosthetics with paralyzed humans, a 25-year-old man constructed shapes on a computer screen by activating neurons in his

• motor cortex.

• sensory cortex.

• thalamus.

• cerebellum.

Which region of your brainstem plays a role in arousing you to a state of alertness when someone nearby mentions your name?

• medulla

• reticular formation

• cerebellum

• amygdala

To identify which of Lucy's brain areas was most active when she talked, neuroscientists gave her a temporarily radioactive form of glucose and a(n)

• PET scan

• MRI scan

• EEG

• fMRI

The localization of a function such as speech production to the right or left side of the brain is called

• hemispherectomy

• lateralization

• plasticity

• neurogenesis

Which lobes of the brain receive the input that enables you to feel someone scratching your back?

• frontal

• temporal

• occipital

• parietal

A picture of a dog is briefly flashed in the left visual field of a split-brain patient. At the same time a picture of a boy is flashed in the right visual field. In identifying what she saw, the patient would be most likely to

• verbally report that she saw a dog.

• verbally report that she saw a boy.

• verbally report that she saw both a dog and a boy.

• verbally report that she saw nothing.

The reticular formation is located in the

• brainstem.

• cerebellum.

• limbic system.

• hippocampus.

The corpus callosum is a wide band of axon fibers that

• transmits information between the cerebral hemispheres.

• directs the muscle movements involved in speech.

• enables the left hemisphere to control the right side of the body.

• controls the glands and muscles of the internal organs.