Question 1

The study of how left and right hemispheres differ in their approach to cognitive tasks has led to the concept of a left hemisphere

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A)   interpreter.
B)   reporter.
C)   responder.
D)   calculator.
E)   scientist.

Question 2

The hemispheres of split-brain patients can communicate with one another externally, through their behavior; this is called __________.

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Question 3

A pathological difficulty in reading is termed

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A)   phonemia.
B)   aphasia.
C)   dyslexia.
D)   apraxia.
E)   lexicalia.

Question 4

Apraxic patients display

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A)   muscle weakness on the left side of the body.
B)   muscle weakness on the right side of the body.
C)   abnormal spinal reflexes.
D)   a serious disturbance of motor coordination.
E)   none of the above

Question 5

Both the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus are in

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A)   the temporal lobe.
B)   the frontal lobe.
C)   primary olfactory cortex.
D)   Wernicke's area.
E)   Broca's area.

Question 6

Which component of the Wernicke-Geschwind model is illustrated here?

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A)   Broca's area
B)   Wernicke's area
C)   angular gyrus
D)   arcuate fasciculus
E)   auditory cortex

Question 7

Theoretically, Broca's area is to Wernicke's area as

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A)   speech production is to speech reception.
B)   speech production is to language comprehension.
C)   conduction aphasia is to receptive aphasia.
D)   the frontal operculum is to the arcuate fasciculus.
E)   word salad is to conduction aphasia.

Question 8

During a test in which split-brain patients were asked to verbally specify which of two colors, red or green, had been presented in the left visual field, an interesting phenomenon was discovered. This phenomenon is

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A)   unilateral emotion.
B)   cross-cuing.
C)   the helping-hand phenomenon.
D)   transfer of hircismus.
E)   interhemispheric transfer of color.

Question 9

The words "spleemer" and "twipple" are normally read aloud by a __________ procedure.

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A)   linguistic
B)   semantic
C)   phonetic
D)   surface
E)   lexical

Question 10

According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, word salad results from damage to __________.

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Question 11

According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, signals are carried from Wernicke's area to Broca's area via the left

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A)   corpus callosum.
B)   arcuate fasciculus.
C)   massa intermedia.
D)   angular gyrus.
E)   primary motor cortex.

Question 12

__________ first reported evidence of the lateralization of language functions, but he received little or no recognition for his insightful observations.

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A)   Dax
B)   Broca
C)   Wernicke
D)   Hebb
E)   Penfield

Question 13

The left and right hemispheres are connected by the

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A)   fornix.
B)   septum.
C)   cerebral commissures.
D)   cerebral ligaments.
E)   arcuate fasciculus.

Question 14

As a result of mounting evidence that broad categories of cognitive function are not lateralized, research on the lateralization of function has started to focus on

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A)   language.
B)   constituent cognitive processes.
C)   emotion.
D)   spatial ability.
E)   cognitive tasks.

Question 15

Electrical stimulation of sites in the left neocortex of conscious human patients often

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A)   disrupts language-related abilities, even when applied to sites outside the areas of the Wernicke-Geschwind model.
B)   has similar disruptive effects at widely scattered sites.
C)   has different effects at the same sites in different patients.
D)   all of the above
E)   none of the above

Question 16

Broca's area is in the

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A)   left hemisphere.
B)   frontal lobe.
C)   inferior prefrontal cortex.
D)   all of the above
E)   both A and B

Question 17

During language tests, PET and fMRI typically reveal greater activity in

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A)   aphasics.
B)   dyslexics.
C)   the left hemisphere.
D)   the right hemisphere.
E)   males.

Question 18

The Z lens was developed by

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A)   Zaidel.
B)   Zalman Amit.
C)   Zurif.
D)   Zimbardo.
E)   Zola-Morgan.

Question 19

In surface dyslexia, the __________ procedure has been lost.

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A)   semantic
B)   phonetic
C)   lexical
D)   deep
E)   phonological

Question 20

The left-hemisphere is dominant for speech in

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A)   all left-handers and a few right-handers.
B)   nearly all left-handers and a few right-handers.
C)   nearly all right-handers and the majority of left-handers.
D)   nearly all right-handers and only a few left-handers.
E)   a few right-handers and even fewer left-handers.

Exam 16: Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain

In surface dyslexia, the __________ procedure has been lost.

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The Z lens was developed by

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__________ first reported evidence of the lateralization of language functions, but he received little or no recognition for his insightful observations.

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The study of how left and right hemispheres differ in their approach to cognitive tasks has led to the concept of a left hemisphere

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Apraxic patients display

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The left and right hemispheres are connected by the

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According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, signals are carried from Wernicke's area to Broca's area via the left

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Both the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus are in

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Broca's area is in the

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According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, word salad results from damage to __________.

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During a test in which split-brain patients were asked to verbally specify which of two colors, red or green, had been presented in the left visual field, an interesting phenomenon was discovered. This phenomenon is

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The left-hemisphere is dominant for speech in

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The words "spleemer" and "twipple" are normally read aloud by a __________ procedure.

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During language tests, PET and fMRI typically reveal greater activity in

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A pathological difficulty in reading is termed

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Theoretically, Broca's area is to Wernicke's area as

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As a result of mounting evidence that broad categories of cognitive function are not lateralized, research on the lateralization of function has started to focus on

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Electrical stimulation of sites in the left neocortex of conscious human patients often

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The hemispheres of split-brain patients can communicate with one another externally, through their behavior; this is called __________.

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Which component of the Wernicke-Geschwind model is illustrated here?

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