Spiny neurons are mostly excitatory; aspiny neurons are inhibitory.

Brodmann areas 41 and 42 correspond closely to:

The paralimbic cortex plays an important role in:

A dog may generate a strong affective response in us as it charges, in part because the amygdala adds affective tone to the visual threat of the dog. This is evidence of the amplifying and modulating roles of the:

Which mechanism does the brain use to tie single and varied sensory and motor events together into a unified perception or behavior?

Brain areas should be regarded as independent processors of specific information.

In which area was anatomical asymmetry first described?

The frontal lobes are asymmetrical, but their functions are more similar to each other than they are to those of the posterior cortex on the same side.

The experimental technique by which two cortical areas are functionally dissociated by two behavioral tests is called:

During hemispheric anesthesia (Wada), injection into the right side produces sensory and motor symptoms on the left but no speech disturbance, unless:

In a dichotic listening experiment, if /ba/ is presented to the left ear and /ga/ presented to the right ear, which of the two is reported if the corpus callosum is impaired?

A lower proportion of left-handers show no asymmetry or a reversal of left and right anatomical asymmetries.

Hemispheres do not become more and more lateralized with respect to a given function. Rather, they independently develop more highly specialized functions as age increases.