Chapter 4

What does dorsal mean, and what term is its opposite?

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex includes the primary auditory cortex? The primary somatosensory cortex? The primary visual cortex? The primary motor cortex?

What is the difference between invasive and noninvasive procedures?

What term means toward the side, away from the midline, and what term 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 one is on the right, they are __________ to each other.

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

What is meant by the "binding problem" and what are two hypotheses to explain it?

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?

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

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?