Multiple Choice
4.1 How Do We Choose A Model System?
1. We do we study model organisms?
a. Humans are not interesting to study.
b. They are computational approximations of real neural systems.
c. What we learn can apply across species.
d. We can conduct work in them without any regulatory approval.
Answer: c
2. IACUC review of proposed animal studies focuses on:
a. ensuring that the animals do not feel pain and/or that measures are taken to
minimize pain.
b. keeping costs low for the researchers.
c. checking that the researchers have sufficient funding to perform the research.
d. All the above.
Answer: a
3. To receive IACUC approval, an animal study must:
a. benefit the animal.
b. have potential value to society.
c. use a large number of animals.
d. use organoids.
Answer: b
4.2 How Do We Compare Brains?
4. Comparative neuroscience is typically studied at which scale?
a. Micro
b. Meso
c. Macro
d. All the above
Answer: d
5. Organization of distinct grey and white matter:
a. is the same in bird and mammal telencephalon.
b. is found in bird but not in mammal telencephalon.
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c. is found in mammal but not in bird telencephalon.
d. is not found in bird or mammal telencephalon.
Answer: c
6. Birds lack distinct grey and white matter in their telencephalon:
a. because they don’t have myelin.
b. because they don’t have neurons.
c. because their neurons are organized in nuclei instead of layers.
d. because the axons in birds are interspersed through among cell bodies and are not
bundled together in large, distinct groups.
Answer: d
7. In the isocortex-DVR hypothesis, what consideration drives how homologous regions of
mammalian and avian brain are defined?
a. Field homology of the cells that populate brain regions
b. What cellular population from development eventually populates the area
c. How the areas connect to other brain regions
d. The physical shape of the brain regions
Answer: c
8. The bird DVR is homologous to what in mammalian brains?
a. It depends on how you define homology
b. The claustroamygdala complex
c. The neocortex
d. The hyperpallium
a
4.3 How Do Brains Vary in Size?
9. Human brains have the most proportional brain volume dedicated to cortex among
primates.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
10. Differences in total brain size between species:
a. explain a large portion of differences in cognitive capacity.
b. explain only a tiny portion of differences in cognitive capacity.
c. reveal that humans have the largest brains of any known animals.
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4.1 How Do We Choose A Model System?
1. We do we study model organisms?
a. Humans are not interesting to study.
b. They are computational approximations of real neural systems.
c. What we learn can apply across species.
d. We can conduct work in them without any regulatory approval.
Answer: c
2. IACUC review of proposed animal studies focuses on:
a. ensuring that the animals do not feel pain and/or that measures are taken to
minimize pain.
b. keeping costs low for the researchers.
c. checking that the researchers have sufficient funding to perform the research.
d. All the above.
Answer: a
3. To receive IACUC approval, an animal study must:
a. benefit the animal.
b. have potential value to society.
c. use a large number of animals.
d. use organoids.
Answer: b
4.2 How Do We Compare Brains?
4. Comparative neuroscience is typically studied at which scale?
a. Micro
b. Meso
c. Macro
d. All the above
Answer: d
5. Organization of distinct grey and white matter:
a. is the same in bird and mammal telencephalon.
b. is found in bird but not in mammal telencephalon.
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c. is found in mammal but not in bird telencephalon.
d. is not found in bird or mammal telencephalon.
Answer: c
6. Birds lack distinct grey and white matter in their telencephalon:
a. because they don’t have myelin.
b. because they don’t have neurons.
c. because their neurons are organized in nuclei instead of layers.
d. because the axons in birds are interspersed through among cell bodies and are not
bundled together in large, distinct groups.
Answer: d
7. In the isocortex-DVR hypothesis, what consideration drives how homologous regions of
mammalian and avian brain are defined?
a. Field homology of the cells that populate brain regions
b. What cellular population from development eventually populates the area
c. How the areas connect to other brain regions
d. The physical shape of the brain regions
Answer: c
8. The bird DVR is homologous to what in mammalian brains?
a. It depends on how you define homology
b. The claustroamygdala complex
c. The neocortex
d. The hyperpallium
a
4.3 How Do Brains Vary in Size?
9. Human brains have the most proportional brain volume dedicated to cortex among
primates.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
10. Differences in total brain size between species:
a. explain a large portion of differences in cognitive capacity.
b. explain only a tiny portion of differences in cognitive capacity.
c. reveal that humans have the largest brains of any known animals.
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