1.3D6 MCQ ET

After recovering from a stroke that impaired her speech, Marissa is able to speak more fluently again thanks to her brain's ability to reorganize and compensate for the damaged areas. This capability of the brain is known as:

• Hemispheric Specialization

• Plasticity

• Lesioning

• Split Brain Research

During a neuroscience lecture, a professor explains how certain patients, after having their corpus callosum severed to treat severe epilepsy, show that each brain hemisphere can function independently. This surgical outcome is often studied in:

• Plasticity Research

• Hemispheric Specialization

• Split Brain Research

• Lesioning Studies

A patient exhibits difficulties in producing coherent speech but understands what others say. The neurologist identifies damage to a specific area responsible for speech production, known as:

• Wernicke’s Area

• Broca’s Area

• Contralateral Hemisphere

• Limbic System

To monitor brain activity during a cognitive task, researchers use a technique that records electrical activity along the scalp, providing insights into brain wave patterns. This technique is called:

• Lesioning

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

• Electroencephalogram (EEG)

• Split Brain Research

In a study assessing how the brain processes different stimuli, researchers use a brain imaging technique that measures changes in blood flow and brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood oxygen levels. This technique is:

• Electroencephalogram (EEG)

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

• Lesioning

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

How does emotional regulation change during adolescence?

• Teenagers become less emotional

• Emotional regulation does not change during adolescence

• Teenagers have improved emotional regulation due to the maturation of the prefrontal cortex

• Teenagers experience stronger emotions due to ongoing brain development

For most people, what hemisphere is speech functions located?

A person is in a severe car accident, is not wearing their seat belt, and is thrown through the windshield.  After they wake from coma, their friends and family have noticed a change in their personality.  They have likely experienced a lesion to which lobe of the cerebral cortex.

• Frontal
• Parietal
• Temporal
• Occipital