Neuro Not Jeapardy

The three primary ways in which words are symbolized in different

writing systems are alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic.

• True

• False

Which of the following statements is true of the kind of amnesia demonstrated by people with bilateral hippocampal damage (like patients H.M. and R.B.) or people with diencephalon injury (like people with Korsakoff’s syndrome

• They forget their dates of birth.

• They have good memory for learning facts after the injury but fail to show priming effects.

• They can still learn new skills, such as the serial reaction time task, after the injury.

• They remember meeting new people after the injury.

After suffering a severe head injury, a patient demonstrates a dense anterograde amnesia. She

• has trouble remembering events that occurred before the injury.

• has equal difficulty remembering events that occurred before and after her injury.

• has normal long-term memory but impaired working memory.

• cannot remember events that occurred after the injury.

Deficits in memory as a function of brain damage, disease, or psychological

• aphasia

• anomia

• agnosia

• amnesia

Neuroimaging experiments have demonstrated that working memory engages the

• anterior cingulate to a larger degree than any other cortical area.

• prefrontal cortex and more posterior brain areas involved in perception and mental representation.

• anterior cingulate and more posterior brain areas involved in perception and mental representation.

• prefrontal cortex to a larger degree than any other cortical area.

The mental lexicon is thought to be organized as a semantic network in which word meanings are connected to each other, as in the diagram here. Based on what you know about how strength of association between word meanings is represented in semantic networks, determine which of the following statements regarding the network is true.

• Jackal is a less frequently accessed animal word than cat.

• The association between dog and jackal is weaker than the association between cat and jackal.

• Jackal is a less frequently accessed animal word than dog.

• The association between dog and cat is stronger than the association between animal and cat.

Which of the following best describes the three main components of word or lexical processing in the correct order, according to most modular models of word recognition?

• lexical access, lexical selection, lexical integration

• lexical selection, lexical access, lexical integration

• lexical access, lexical integration, lexical selection

• lexical selection, lexical integration, lexical access

A normal adult speaker has passive knowledge of about 50,000 words.

• True

• False

The component that is responsible for acoustically coding information in working memory is the

• phonological loop.

• visuospatial sketchpad.

• subvocal loop.

• central executive.

A patient’s symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output. What is the most probable diagnosis?

• acquired alexia

• Broca’s aphasia

• Wernicke’s aphasia

• conduction aphasia