Which of the following brain areas is important for speech?

Related Mcqs:

1. The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?

   A. regeneration
   B. accommodation
   C. aphasia
   D. plasticity

2. The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:

   A. tomography
   B. hemispherectomy
   C. phrenology
   D. plasticity

3. If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:

   A. adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are
   B. adults and infants both use the same number of phenomes
   C. infants produce more phonemes than adults do
   D. adults and infants both use the same number of morphemes

4. The vocal apparatus for producing speech sounds are useless unless the organism has which area in its brain developed in order to coordinate these movements?

   A. hypothalamus
   B. thalamus
   C. Broca’s area
   D. fissure of Ronaldo

5. Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area of the brain are involved in the ____________ and _____________ of speech respectively.

   A. understanding, production
   B. comprehension, formulation
   C. organizing, production
   D. production, comprehension

6. In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?

   A. right cerebral hemisphere
   B. left cerebral hemisphere
   C. regular formation
   D. corpus collosum

7. The pons acts as a bridge between the medulla and other brain areas and influences:

   A. activity
   B. sleep and arousal
   C. motor behavior
   D. higher reasoning

8. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

9. The most obvious difference between the human brain and the brain of a carp would be in the:

   A. hypothalamus
   B. thalamus
   C. cerebellum
   D. cerebral cortex

10. Which brain structure is important in causing, awakening a person from sleep?

    A. limbic activating system
    B. cerebral activating system
    C. reticular activating system
    D. thalamic activating system