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What is the theory regarding different areas of the brain?
Different areas of the brain are responsible for different
behaviours
, processes, or activities.
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How is the brain structurally organized?
The brain is divided into two
hemispheres
connected by the
corpus callosum
.
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What cognitive functions are believed to be managed by the left hemisphere?
The left hemisphere is responsible for
attention
, processing of
visual shapes
and patterns, and emotions.
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What are the four lobes of the brain and their primary functions?
Frontal lobe
: Thinking and working memory
Temporal lobe
: Contains
auditory cortex
and some forms of memory
Parietal lobe
: Responsible for balance, pain, and temperature
Occipital lobe
: Contains the visual cortex
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What is the function of the motor area in the brain?
The motor area regulates movement and is located in the
posterior
part of the
frontal lobe
.
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What does the somatosensory area do?
The somatosensory area processes
sensory information
such as touch and is located in the
parietal lobe
.
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Where is Broca's area located and what is its function?
Broca's area is located in the
posterior
part of the
frontal lobe
and is responsible for
speech production
.
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What is the function of Wernicke's area?
Wernicke's area is responsible for
language comprehension
and is located in the
temporal lobe
.
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What did the initial research by Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke reveal about language centers in the brain?
Language centers are predominantly focused in the
left hemisphere
.
Broca's area
is responsible for
speech production
.
Wernicke's area
is responsible for speech comprehension.
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What did Petersen et al. (1988) demonstrate using fMRI brain scans?
Petersen et al. demonstrated that
Wernicke's area
was active during a listening task and
Broca's area
was active during a reading task.
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What does research into cortical remapping suggest?
Cortical remapping suggests that areas of the
brain
near an injury can adopt the functions of damaged areas like
Broca's
or
Wernicke's
.
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What does Lashley's research suggest about higher cognitive functions?
Higher cognitive functions are not
localized
but
distributed holistically
in the brain.
No
specific area
was more important for learning in rats.
Learning requires multiple
regions of the brain
to synthesize information.
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What was a limitation of Lashley's research on rats?
A limitation was that it was conducted using
animals
, making it cautious to
generalize
to humans.
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What did Hubel and Wiesel's study reveal about the visual cortex?
The visual cortex associated with a shut eye was not idle.
It continued to process information from the open eye.
This indicates
brain adaptability
and
plasticity
.
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What caution should be taken when generalizing Hubel and Wiesel's findings?
One should be cautious when generalizing findings from
animal studies
to
humans
.
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