Study Guide for Exam 2

TERMS: Be familiar with location and function (These are not all-inclusive. Be sure you are fully reading the text.)

Brodmann numbers (all lobes)
V1
V2
V3
V3A
V4
V5
VP
STS

fusiform gyrus

lingual gyrus 

lingual sulcus
simultagnosia
associative agnosia
prosopagnosia

 


PE
PF
PG
Hippocampus

Area PRR 
acalculia
simultaneous extinction
asomatognosia
anosognosia

angular gyrus

submarginal gyrus

dorsolateral prefrontal (46)

cingulate cortex

orbital frontal
blind touch
asymbolia for pain

autopagnosia

astereognosis
Balint's syndrome

Gerstmann syndrome
optic ataxia
morphosynthesis
apraxias
contralateral neglect

right-left confusion

selective attention
disengagement
Seguin-Goddard 

Form Board
Line bisection
Gollin Incomplete FiguresToken test
Kimura Box

insula
uncus
STS
TE

STG

FFA

PPA

parahippocampal gyrus

amygdala

paralimbic cortex
perforant pathway

 

cross-modal matching
cortical deafness
formant
Wernicke's aphasia

fundamental frequency
word deafness

congenital amusia
timbre
prosody
overtones
dichotic listening
anterograde amnesia
temporal lobe personality
McGill Picture-Anomalies Test
Wechsler Memory Scale

Rey Complex Figure


 
 
 
 
POSSIBLE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Explain connections to and from visual cortex.

What are the functions of the dorsal and ventral stream?

What is the support for "faces are special"?

What are the connections to and from the parietal lobe? To and from the temporal lobe?

What are the proposed functions of the functional divisions of the parietal lobe? The temporal lobe?

How do the left and right hemispheres differ in their effects on performance of spatial cognition?

Make a case that the temporal lobe participates in the appreciation of contextual information.

Identify five standard clinical neuropsychological tests for temporal lobe damage and the cognitive functions they ate intended to evaluate.

Describe the effects of right temporal lobe lesions on pitch perception.

You have a client with left temporal lobe damage who states that "everyone talks too fast". Explain why he/she is experiencing this problem.

Explain the concept of biological motion and the involvement of STS.