Brain and Behavior Learning and Memory UNCC
questions and answers | Verified
A) medial temporal cortex. - ANSWER 38. A patient named Boswell was described in
your text as having severe amnesia—both for events prior to and after his illness—
while maintaining implicit memory. His brain damage included the:
C) entorhinal cortex - ANSWER 39. The ______ is the final stop in a major pathway
leading from the cortex to the hippocampus.
B) entorhinal, perirhinal, and parahippocampal cortices. - ANSWER 40. The three
cortical regions, in addition to the hippocampus and amygdala, that take part in
explicit memory are the:
B) parahippocampal region - ANSWER 41. Which of the following areas is most
likely involved in visuospatial memory?
B) entorhinal cortex - ANSWER 42. Which of the following areas first shows cell
death in Alzheimer's disease?
D) Alzheimer's disease. - ANSWER 43. Neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are
often found in patients with:
C) a series of microbleeds in the brain. - ANSWER 44. Recent research has suggested
that Alzheimer's disease may be due to:
A) can be positively diagnosed only at autopsy.
B) is characterized by cortical plaques.
, C) is associated with a loss of cholinergic cells in the basal forebrain.
D) All of the answers are correct. - ANSWER 45. Alzheimer's disease:
C) perirhinal region - ANSWER 46. Which of the following areas is most likely to play a
role in visual object memory?
C) memory for places. - ANSWER 47. In recent studies the hippocampus has
been implicated in:
B) visual recognition tasks; object position tasks - ANSWER 48. Monkeys with perirhinal
lesions are impaired at ______ , and monkeys with hippocampal lesions are impaired at
_____.
A) have a hippocampal formation that is more than twice as large as one would expect,
given the size of the bird. - ANSWER 49. Sherry and colleagues have found that birds
that cache food for the winter:
C) had a larger posterior hippocampus - ANSWER 50. Maguire and colleagues
found that London taxi drivers ______ than controls.
C) medial temporal lobe damage; frontal lobe damage - ANSWER 51. If shown a series
of photographs in a specific order, patients with ______ would not be able to remember
the photographs or the order they were presented in, and patients with ______ would
remember the photographs but would not be able to remember the order they were
presented in.
D) memory for the temporal order of events. - ANSWER 52. The frontal lobe appears
to be involved in:
questions and answers | Verified
A) medial temporal cortex. - ANSWER 38. A patient named Boswell was described in
your text as having severe amnesia—both for events prior to and after his illness—
while maintaining implicit memory. His brain damage included the:
C) entorhinal cortex - ANSWER 39. The ______ is the final stop in a major pathway
leading from the cortex to the hippocampus.
B) entorhinal, perirhinal, and parahippocampal cortices. - ANSWER 40. The three
cortical regions, in addition to the hippocampus and amygdala, that take part in
explicit memory are the:
B) parahippocampal region - ANSWER 41. Which of the following areas is most
likely involved in visuospatial memory?
B) entorhinal cortex - ANSWER 42. Which of the following areas first shows cell
death in Alzheimer's disease?
D) Alzheimer's disease. - ANSWER 43. Neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are
often found in patients with:
C) a series of microbleeds in the brain. - ANSWER 44. Recent research has suggested
that Alzheimer's disease may be due to:
A) can be positively diagnosed only at autopsy.
B) is characterized by cortical plaques.
, C) is associated with a loss of cholinergic cells in the basal forebrain.
D) All of the answers are correct. - ANSWER 45. Alzheimer's disease:
C) perirhinal region - ANSWER 46. Which of the following areas is most likely to play a
role in visual object memory?
C) memory for places. - ANSWER 47. In recent studies the hippocampus has
been implicated in:
B) visual recognition tasks; object position tasks - ANSWER 48. Monkeys with perirhinal
lesions are impaired at ______ , and monkeys with hippocampal lesions are impaired at
_____.
A) have a hippocampal formation that is more than twice as large as one would expect,
given the size of the bird. - ANSWER 49. Sherry and colleagues have found that birds
that cache food for the winter:
C) had a larger posterior hippocampus - ANSWER 50. Maguire and colleagues
found that London taxi drivers ______ than controls.
C) medial temporal lobe damage; frontal lobe damage - ANSWER 51. If shown a series
of photographs in a specific order, patients with ______ would not be able to remember
the photographs or the order they were presented in, and patients with ______ would
remember the photographs but would not be able to remember the order they were
presented in.
D) memory for the temporal order of events. - ANSWER 52. The frontal lobe appears
to be involved in:
