BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR COGNITIVE
NEUROSCIENCE 2026 ASSESSMENT
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS FINAL STUDY
GUIDE
◉ What is cognition?
Answer: The act or process of knowing or coming to know, involving
attention to stimuli, identification of stimuli, and planning
meaningful responses.
◉ How does language give humans a thinking advantage?
Answer: Language provides a way to categorize information,
organize time, and has syntax.
◉ What is a critical characteristic of human motor sequencing?
Answer: The ability to form novel sequences with ease.
◉ What difficulties do people with frontal lobe damage face?
Answer: They have difficulty generating novel solutions to problems.
,◉ What is a cell assembly?
Answer: A hypothetical group of neurons that become functionally
connected via common sensory inputs.
◉ Who proposed the concept of cell assembly?
Answer: Donald Hebb.
◉ What do connections among neurons represent?
Answer: They are organized into systems and subsystems,
contributing to complex neural circuits.
◉ What did Newsome and colleagues find about individual neurons?
Answer: The perception of apparent motion was influenced by
individual neurons, not by the summed activity of many neurons.
◉ What is the association cortex?
Answer: The neocortex outside of the primary sensory and motor
cortices that produces cognition.
◉ What is one key difference between the association cortex and
primary cortices?
,Answer: The association cortex receives more highly processed
information.
◉ What does the temporal association region produce cognition
related to?
Answer: Visual and auditory processing.
◉ What is the role of the parietal cortex?
Answer: It is closely related to somatosensation and movement
control.
◉ What does the frontal cortex coordinate?
Answer: Information from the parietal and temporal association
regions with information from subcortical regions.
◉ What is a psychological construct?
Answer: The idea or set of impressions that some mental ability
exists as an entity.
◉ Where is knowledge about objects represented in the brain?
Answer: In the temporal association cortex.
◉ What happens if the temporal association cortex is destroyed?
, Answer: The person will become agnostic.
◉ What does the dorsal visual stream mediate?
Answer: Vision for action.
◉ What does the ventral visual stream mediate?
Answer: Vision for object recognition.
◉ What does knowledge about objects encompass?
Answer: How they look, what they are used for, and what will be
done with the information.
◉ What is the blinding problem in multisensory integration?
Answer: Philosophical questions about how the brain ties single and
varied sensory and motor events into a unified perception or
behavior.
◉ What is spatial cognition?
Answer: Knowledge about the environment that allows us to
determine where we and objects are, how to navigate, interpret our
spatial world, and communicate about space.
◉ What cognitive abilities evolved to support navigation in space?
NEUROSCIENCE 2026 ASSESSMENT
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS FINAL STUDY
GUIDE
◉ What is cognition?
Answer: The act or process of knowing or coming to know, involving
attention to stimuli, identification of stimuli, and planning
meaningful responses.
◉ How does language give humans a thinking advantage?
Answer: Language provides a way to categorize information,
organize time, and has syntax.
◉ What is a critical characteristic of human motor sequencing?
Answer: The ability to form novel sequences with ease.
◉ What difficulties do people with frontal lobe damage face?
Answer: They have difficulty generating novel solutions to problems.
,◉ What is a cell assembly?
Answer: A hypothetical group of neurons that become functionally
connected via common sensory inputs.
◉ Who proposed the concept of cell assembly?
Answer: Donald Hebb.
◉ What do connections among neurons represent?
Answer: They are organized into systems and subsystems,
contributing to complex neural circuits.
◉ What did Newsome and colleagues find about individual neurons?
Answer: The perception of apparent motion was influenced by
individual neurons, not by the summed activity of many neurons.
◉ What is the association cortex?
Answer: The neocortex outside of the primary sensory and motor
cortices that produces cognition.
◉ What is one key difference between the association cortex and
primary cortices?
,Answer: The association cortex receives more highly processed
information.
◉ What does the temporal association region produce cognition
related to?
Answer: Visual and auditory processing.
◉ What is the role of the parietal cortex?
Answer: It is closely related to somatosensation and movement
control.
◉ What does the frontal cortex coordinate?
Answer: Information from the parietal and temporal association
regions with information from subcortical regions.
◉ What is a psychological construct?
Answer: The idea or set of impressions that some mental ability
exists as an entity.
◉ Where is knowledge about objects represented in the brain?
Answer: In the temporal association cortex.
◉ What happens if the temporal association cortex is destroyed?
, Answer: The person will become agnostic.
◉ What does the dorsal visual stream mediate?
Answer: Vision for action.
◉ What does the ventral visual stream mediate?
Answer: Vision for object recognition.
◉ What does knowledge about objects encompass?
Answer: How they look, what they are used for, and what will be
done with the information.
◉ What is the blinding problem in multisensory integration?
Answer: Philosophical questions about how the brain ties single and
varied sensory and motor events into a unified perception or
behavior.
◉ What is spatial cognition?
Answer: Knowledge about the environment that allows us to
determine where we and objects are, how to navigate, interpret our
spatial world, and communicate about space.
◉ What cognitive abilities evolved to support navigation in space?
