The four lobes of the cerebral cortex are the:
frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital.
The typical neuron receives input via the _____, processes information in the ____, and sends output via the _____.
dendrites; soma; axon
If we were to cut the sensory fibers in your arm, and you put your hand on a hot stove, you would:
not feel the pain.
The idea that memories are represented as physical changes to local areas in the brain is known as:
an engram.
At the level of the neuron, the basis of learning is:
synaptic plasticity.
As Professor Smith palpates the patient's head, he comments "You have anenlarged area in the center of your forehead, therefore you have an excellent memory". Professor Smith is a
phrenologist
. The tool that allows us to view the structure of the living brain using magnetic fields is a(n):
MRI
The neuron that sends a signal is called the:
presynaptic neuron.
The main difficulty with research using PET or fMRI technology is that the research is:
correlational, which limits causal explanations for the findings.
Long-term potentiation can be thought of as:
neurons that fire together wire together.