Who was the owner of the most famous human hippocampus in neuroscience?
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Answer explanation
Henry Molaison (1926-2008) lost most of his hippocampus as a consquence of the surgery that was conducted on him to treat his epilepsia. The epilepsia disappeared, but H.M. became unable to form new memories.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Do you know which structure of the brain contains more neurons?
Cerebellum
Cortex
Thalamus
Hippocampus
Answer explanation
According to the literature it contains more than 70 billion neurons.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which cognitive function is commonly associated with the area highlighted in the plot?
Face processing
Memory
Language processing
Decision making
4.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
If we asked you to cite some scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their contributions to the field of Neuroscience, you would probably name several of them without much thought. Let’s make it easy: name only one. The only condition is that the scientist needs to be a woman…
Answer explanation
To our knowledge, there are three women who have been awarded with the Nobel Prize for their contributions to Neuroscience
Rita Levi Montalcini (1986): “Growth factors”
Linda B. Buck (2004): “Odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”
May Britt Moser (2014) “Cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following scientists has not been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine?
Sir Bernard Katz
Camillo Golgi
David H. Hubel
Daniel Kahneman
Answer explanation
In 2002 he was awarded a Nobel prize, indeed. But it was for his contribution to Economics!
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who shares with Juan Manuel Toro the great honour of having been awarded an IG Nobel prize?
Nuria Sebastián Gallés
Gustavo Deco
Rubén Moreno Bote
Luca Bonatti
Salvador Soto Faraco
Answer explanation
We feel so proud!
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the IG Nobel Prize mentioned before, which languages were the rats unable to distinguish when spoken backwards?
German and French
Japanese and Dutch
Russian and Catalan
English and Swahili
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