BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR COGNITIVE
NEUROSCIENCE 2026 NEURAL SYSTEMS
REVIEW PAPER ANSWERS COMPLETE
LEARNING PACK
◉ What is neuroeconomics?
Answer: An interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how the
brain makes decisions.
◉ What are the two neural decision pathways that influence
choices?
Answer: Reflective system and reflexive system.
◉ What characterizes the reflective system?
Answer: Deliberate, slow, rule-driven, and emotionally neutral.
◉ What characterizes the reflexive system?
Answer: Fast, automatic, and emotionally biased.
◉ What is a brain connectome?
,Answer: A map of the complete structural and functional fiber
pathways of the human brain in vivo.
◉ What anatomical differences exist in the left and right temporal
lobes?
Answer: Language- and music-related areas differ anatomically.
◉ Which auditory area is larger on the right side?
Answer: The primary auditory area.
◉ What is Broca's area associated with?
Answer: The special role in talking.
◉ How do neurons in Broca's area differ between hemispheres?
Answer: Neurons on the left have larger dendritic fields than those
on the right.
◉ What is the significance of anatomical asymmetry in the brain?
Answer: Asymmetries are observed in many species and are not
solely for language.
◉ What is dichotic listening?
,Answer: An experimental procedure for simultaneously presenting
different auditory stimuli to each ear.
◉ What auditory advantage does the right ear have?
Answer: Right-ear advantage for verbal information.
◉ What auditory advantage does the left ear have?
Answer: Left-ear advantage for musical information.
◉ Which visual field has an advantage for language-related
information?
Answer: Right visual field.
◉ Which visual field has an advantage for nonverbal spatial
information?
Answer: Left visual field.
◉ What happens to visual information when fixating on a target?
Answer: Information to the left goes to the right hemisphere, and
information to the right goes to the left hemisphere.
◉ What is the function of the left hemisphere?
Answer: The left hemisphere has language capabilities.
, ◉ What does the right hemisphere excel at?
Answer: The right hemisphere performs better than the left on
nonverbal tasks that engage visuospatial skills.
◉ What is split-brain?
Answer: Surgical disconnection of the two hemispheres by cutting
the corpus callosum.
◉ What happens after the corpus callosum is cut?
Answer: The hemispheres have no way of communicating.
◉ What is suggested about language lateralization at birth?
Answer: Previous research suggested left lateralization for language
at birth.
◉ What did fMRI studies show about young children's language
activation?
Answer: Young children demonstrate extensive right hemisphere
activation for language that declines through childhood.
◉ How does information from the left visual field travel in the brain?
Answer: It goes to the right hemisphere.
NEUROSCIENCE 2026 NEURAL SYSTEMS
REVIEW PAPER ANSWERS COMPLETE
LEARNING PACK
◉ What is neuroeconomics?
Answer: An interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how the
brain makes decisions.
◉ What are the two neural decision pathways that influence
choices?
Answer: Reflective system and reflexive system.
◉ What characterizes the reflective system?
Answer: Deliberate, slow, rule-driven, and emotionally neutral.
◉ What characterizes the reflexive system?
Answer: Fast, automatic, and emotionally biased.
◉ What is a brain connectome?
,Answer: A map of the complete structural and functional fiber
pathways of the human brain in vivo.
◉ What anatomical differences exist in the left and right temporal
lobes?
Answer: Language- and music-related areas differ anatomically.
◉ Which auditory area is larger on the right side?
Answer: The primary auditory area.
◉ What is Broca's area associated with?
Answer: The special role in talking.
◉ How do neurons in Broca's area differ between hemispheres?
Answer: Neurons on the left have larger dendritic fields than those
on the right.
◉ What is the significance of anatomical asymmetry in the brain?
Answer: Asymmetries are observed in many species and are not
solely for language.
◉ What is dichotic listening?
,Answer: An experimental procedure for simultaneously presenting
different auditory stimuli to each ear.
◉ What auditory advantage does the right ear have?
Answer: Right-ear advantage for verbal information.
◉ What auditory advantage does the left ear have?
Answer: Left-ear advantage for musical information.
◉ Which visual field has an advantage for language-related
information?
Answer: Right visual field.
◉ Which visual field has an advantage for nonverbal spatial
information?
Answer: Left visual field.
◉ What happens to visual information when fixating on a target?
Answer: Information to the left goes to the right hemisphere, and
information to the right goes to the left hemisphere.
◉ What is the function of the left hemisphere?
Answer: The left hemisphere has language capabilities.
, ◉ What does the right hemisphere excel at?
Answer: The right hemisphere performs better than the left on
nonverbal tasks that engage visuospatial skills.
◉ What is split-brain?
Answer: Surgical disconnection of the two hemispheres by cutting
the corpus callosum.
◉ What happens after the corpus callosum is cut?
Answer: The hemispheres have no way of communicating.
◉ What is suggested about language lateralization at birth?
Answer: Previous research suggested left lateralization for language
at birth.
◉ What did fMRI studies show about young children's language
activation?
Answer: Young children demonstrate extensive right hemisphere
activation for language that declines through childhood.
◉ How does information from the left visual field travel in the brain?
Answer: It goes to the right hemisphere.
