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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Which of the following brain areas is important for speech?

   A. Wernicke’s area
   B. cerebellum
   C. thalamus
   D. hippocampus

7. Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 4

8. Which of the following are mostly involved in synaptic transmission within the brain and spiral cord?

   A. Nor-epinephrine
   B. Serotonin
   C. Dopamine
   D. All of these

9. 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

10. 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