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 col liculi, 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 are the functions of the prefrontal cortex?

What is the difference between a lesion and an ablation?

What does fMRI measure?

Suppose someone demonstrates that a particular brain area becomes active when people are listening to music. When that area becomes active later, what, if anything, can we conclude?

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

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