Foundations of Neuroscience - Practice Quiz

________ performed an autopsy on the Italian serial killer and proposed that specific regions of the brain are linked to criminal activity.

______ was an early neuroscience technique that attempted to link the bumps on a person's head to certain aspects of their personality and behavior.

Which scientist is credited with developing the first microscope?

Which scientist proposed that neurons had physical connections with each other (forming a neural net)?

One principle of neuroscience is ________ which is the finding that the brain has an orderly arrangement of neurons on its surface essentially creating a map of the body on the brain.

Goodale and Milner found that visual information splits into two pathways from the visual cortex. The ____ pathway is called the "what" pathway because it provides information about the characteristics of an item such as its color and shape.

The ability of the brain to reorganize itself after damage is called ________.

Which scientist conducted numerous experiments to illustrate that the brain does not localize functions because it is "plastic" or capable of reorganizing itself after brain damage?

Goodale and Milner found that visual information splits into two pathways from the visual cortex. The ____ pathway is called the "where" pathway because it provides information about where an object is in space (location, movement, speed, etc).

The _____ hypothesis was the belief that the heart was responsible for human behavior such as love, anger, fear, jealousy and personality.

If a behavior is controlled by specific area of the brain, neuroscientists would say that the behavior is ________.

If a behavior is controlled by one hemisphere of the brain, neuroscientists would say that the behavior is ________.

The philosophical position that behavior is controlled by the mind/soul and that the brain/body is not responsible for behavior is called ________.

Descartes believed that both the mind/soul and brain/body are responsible for controlling behavior. This philosophical position is known as _______.

What is the term for the philosophical position that the mind/soul emerges from the body/brain with properties that the brain itself does not have?