Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.

Related Mcqs:

1. Destroying a piece of brain tissue to observe its effect on behavior is referred to as which of the following?

   A. tumor ligation
   B. lesioning
   C. electrical stimulation
   D. stereotaxic inversion

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

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

3. 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

4. Identify the assertion from those given below, with regard to damage to the brain’s hemispheres:

   A. Serve hemi-neglect often results from damage to the left parietal lobe
   B. Patients with hemi-neglect may ignore the entire left half of the world
   C. The right hemisphere might be able to support bilateral spatial attentional processes
   D. When the left hemisphere is damaged the right may be able to take over processes that would normally depend on the left hemisphere

5. 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

6. 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

7. The process by which a single neuro relays messages to other neurons is known as _____________?

   A. polarization
   B. depolarization
   C. axonal transmission
   D. synaptic transmission

8. After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:

   A. understanding what others are saying
   B. recognizing familiar faces
   C. pronouncing words correctly
   D. controlling voluntary muscles

9. Which of the following body parts is associated with the greatest amount of brain tissue in the motor cortex?

   A. arms
   B. legs
   C. trunk
   D. face

10. The brain can solve immensely difficult computational problems and thus allow us to function in our environments by relying on which type of processing?

    A. Parallel and visual processing of incoming information
    B. Independent and neuronal processing of incoming information
    C. Parallel and visual processing of outgoing information
    D. Parallel and modular processing of incoming information