Hertentamen Emotie, Cognitie, en het Brein A

18 March 1999

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1. What is the frequency hypothesis in brain lateralization and how does it apply to lateralization of visual perception?

2. Brodmann's area 6 is subdivided into SMA and PMC. What do these abbreviations mean and what role do they play in the guidance of movements?

3. What is the role of the anterior cingulate cortex?

4. How does Ramachandran explain the fact that he can map out a patient's amputated hand on his cheek, using the 'cue-tip method'?

5. In the following model from Willem Levelt, name the terms that have been left out. They have been replaced with Q1, ..., Q5.

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6. Describe the procedure of the word stem completion experiment. What does it measure? Would a patient with anterograde amnesia perform better or worse than a normal subject on this test?

7. Describe Alan Baddeley's working memory model (make a drawing as well). Which area of the brain has been implicated by Patricia Goldman-Rakic as a possible site of working memory (give either the name or the Brodmann number)?

8. What are conjunction search and feature search? How are search times in each type of search influenced by the number of distractors?

9. What type of brain activity do PET and fMRI measure? What are some of the disadvantages of using PET and fMRI? What are the advantages?

10. Mention three advantages of using computer models of brain and behavior.

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