Chapter 4

What does dorsal mean, and what is its opposite?

What term means toward the side, away from the midline, and what is its opposite?

If two structures are both on the left side of the body, they are ______ to each other. If one is on the left and the other is on the right, they are _______ to each other

The bulges in the cerebral cortex are called ______ .The grooves between them are called _______.

Sensory nerves enter which side of the spinal cord, dorsal or ventral?

Which functions are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system? Which are controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system?

Of the following, which are in the hindbrain, which in the midbrain, and which in the forebrain: basal ganglia, cerebellum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, medulla, pituitary gland, pons, substantia nigra, superior and inferior colliculi tectum, tegmentum, thalamus?

Which area is the main source of input to the cerebral cortex?

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex includes the primary auditory cortex?

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex includes the primary somatosensory cortex?

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex includes the primary visual cortex?

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex includes the primary motor cortex?

What is meant by the binding problem, and what is one hypothesis to explain it?

Researchers today sometimes relate differences in people's behavior to differences in their brain anatomy. How does their approach differ from that of the phrenologists?

Why does electrical or magnetic stimulation of the brain seldom produce complex, meaningful sensations or movements?

Why are both brain size and brain-to-body ratio unsatisfactory ways of estimating animal intelligence?

On the average, although men have larger brains than women, men and women have equal IQ scores. What is a likely explanation?