Cognitive Neuroscience

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Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology

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1.

Changes in hippocampi are targetted in AD & conseq memory problems. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
2.

The example of George was able to draw the complex figure of rey in a rather intact, rapid fashion, even though he was unable to keep appt, due to suspected oxygen deprivation following cardiac surgery. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
3.

Without his routine life or scripts, George started to display signs of memory disorder. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
4.

So, memory is about communication between regions or functional systems, rather than specific structures on their own. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
5.

Factors that enable a person to deal effectively with their environment, are:
- A.
  
  Alert, perceive, store information over time, plan, communicate
- B.
  
  Encode, store, consolidate, perceive, communicate
- C.
  
  Encode, alert, store, plan, communicate
- D.
  
  None of the above
- E.
  
  Being one step ahead all the time
6.

There will not necessarily be any difference in a memory disorder between a massive stroke and someone who has a lesion disconnecting their cortical and sub-cortical regions. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
7.

Disruptions of cognition and behaviour can result from either:
- A.
  
  Cortical
- B.
  
  Sub-cortical
- C.
  
  Pathway disconnections
- D.
  
  All of the above
- E.
  
  Very difficult to tell
8.

Memory and emotional processing are intimately connected. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
9.

Lect 2: After the wars, the next most significant group informing acquired brain injury has been:
- A.
  
  Drug/alcohol abuse
- B.
  
  Road trauma
- C.
  
  Strokes, MS
- D.
  
  Poisoning, PD
- E.
  
  Tumours, dementia
10.

Memory cannot be fractionated into verbal and facial for example. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
11.

The hippocampi is critical in ____, the prefrontal region is involved in ____ and the left parietal cortex is an ____ and involved in ____.
- A.
  
  Encoding, retrieval, interface, retrieval.
- B.
  
  Retrieval, encoding, interface, retrieval
- C.
  
  Encoding, consolidation, interface, retrieval
- D.
  
  None of the above
12.

The episodic buffer is an integrator. This is:
- A.
  
  False
- B.
  
  True
13.

Which process requires the hippocampi, thalamus, mammillary bodies and neocortex?
- A.
  
  Encoding
- B.
  
  Consolidation
- C.
  
  Retrieval
- D.
  
  Storage
- E.
  
  Memory
14.

Most amnesics have some interruption of long-term memory. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
15.

Explicit memory is tested using 'degraded stimuli'. This is:
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False