What happened when patients were shown a word in their left visual field and asked to speak it aloud?
Unable to describe it - language centres are in the left hemisphere
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Which way to investigate the brain is relatively risk free/non-invasive?
fMRI
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Which way to investigate the brain has high temporal resolution but is unspecific?
EEG
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Which way to investigate the brain is specific but requires all background noise to be eliminated?
ERP
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Which way to investigate the brain created the early foundation for understanding on brain functioning?
Post-mortem
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What group did Maguire study in 2000, finding increased grey matter in the posterior hippocampus?
London taxi drivers
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What term describes when areas on the opposite side of the brain replace the damaged areas on the other side?
Recruitment of homologous areas
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Which biological rhythm describes a 24 hour cycle?
Circadian rhythms
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Which biological rhythm describes a cycle under 24 hours?
Ultradian rhythms
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Which biological rhythm describes a cycle over 24 hours?
Infradian rhythms
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What is an example of an infradian rhythm?
Menstrual cycle
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What term describes mechanisms in the body that govern our internal bodily rhythms?
Endogenous pacemakers
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Which term describes environmental cues that regulate an organisms biological clock?
Exogenous zeitgeibers
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What is the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
Endogenous pacemaker - generates circadian rhythms, acting as a master clock to control sleep/arousal
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What is an example of an exogenous zeitgeber?
Light
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What are advantages to plasticity theories?
Practical applications in neurorehabilitation, research from Hubel and Wiesel (sewed kittens eye, found it moved processing to other eye), Maguire used fMRI/real world
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What are disadvantages to plasticity theories?
Problem of negative plasticity eg drug use leads to poor cognitive functioning, animal studies are not generlisable
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What evidence disputes ideas of functional recovery after trauma being most present in young people?
Bezzola - 40 hours of golf training for adults led to change in brains
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