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cognitive function
cognitive function for bio psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anomia | difficulty recalling the names of objects |
| Anterior commissure | set of axons connecting the two cerebral hemispheres; smaller than the corpus callosum |
| Aphasia | language impairment |
| Binocular rivalry | alternating perception of what the left eye sees with what the right eye sees, when the two are incompatible |
| Broca's aphasia (nonfluent aphasia) | condition marked by loss of fluent speech and impaired use and understanding of prepositions, word endings, and other grammatical devices |
| Broca's area | portion of the human left frontal lobe associated with certain aspects of language, especially language production |
| Conscious | capable of reporting the presence of a stimulus |
| Corpus callosum | large set of axons that connects the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex |
| Dyslexia | specific reading difficulty in a person with adequate vision and at least average skills in other academic areas |
| Epilepsy | condition characterized by repeated episodes of excessive, synchronized neural activity, mainly because of decreased release of the inhibitory transmitter GABA |
| Focus | point in the brain where someone's epileptic seizures begin |
| Inattentional blindness | unawareness of stimuli to which a person did not direct his or her attention |
| Language acquisition device | built-in mechanism for acquiring language |
| Lateralization | division of labor between the two hemispheres of the brain |
| Optic chiasm | point at which parts of the optic nerves cross from one side of the brain to the other |
| Phi phenomenon | tendency to see something as moving back and forth between positions, when in fact it is alternately blinking on and off in those positions |
| Planum temporale | area of the temporal cortex that for most people is larger in the left hemisphere than in the right hemisphere |
| Poverty of the stimulus argument | claim that children do not hear many examples of some of the grammatical structures they acquire and therefore that they could not learn them |
| Productivity | ability of language to produce new signals to represent new ideas |
| Spatial neglect | tendency to ignore the left side of the body or its surroundings |
| Split-brain people | those who have undergone damage to the corpus callosum |
| Visual field | area of the world that an individual can see at any time |
| Wernicke's aphasia (fluent aphasia) | condition marked by poor language comprehension and great difficulty remembering the names of objects |
| Wernicke's area | portion of the human left temporal lobe associated with language comprehension |
| Williams syndrome | type of mental retardation in which the person has relatively good language skills in spite of extremely limited abilities in other regards |
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