Download Parietal Lobe Cards

Question:
Name two roles the parietal
lobe play.
Answer:
 Integrating sensory
information from
various senses.
 The manipulation of
objects.
 Visuospatial
processing.
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Where is the parietal lobe
located?
Where is the primary
somatosensory cortex
located?
What information is processed
by the primary somatosensory
cortex? Name at least two.
Answer:
 superior to the
occipital lobe
 posterior to the
frontal lobe.
Answer:
 In the parietal lobe
 Immediately
posterior to the
central sulcus of the
brain (the post
central gyrus).
Answer:
Sensory information such as:
 touch
 pain
 visual
 auditory
 olfactory
 taste.
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Which hemisphere of the
primary somatosensory
cortex is activated by tactile
stimuli on the left side of
the body?
Which hemisphere of the
primary somatosensory
cortex is activated by tactile
stimuli on the right side of
the body?
Answer:
 The right
hemisphere.
Answer:
 The left hemisphere
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What determines how
sensitive a part of the body
will be to touch?
What is phantom-limb
sensation?
Answer:
 The number of nerve
endings in that area.
Answer:
 The impression that
an amputated limb
is still present and in
some cases painful.
Question:
What is neural plasticity?
Answer:
 Neural plasticity is
the ability of the
nervous system to
form new neural
pathways in
response to physical
damage such as
amputation.
Question:
How is neural plasticity
important for the
development of phantomlimb sensations?
Answer:
 phantom- limb
sensations could be a
result of plastic
changes in the
somatosensory
cortex.
Question:
Which of the following age
groups would have the
greatest amount of neural
plasticity?
A. 1-10 years
B. 11-20 years
C. 21-30 years
D. 60-70 years
Answer:
A. 1-10 years
Question:
Neural plasticity would be least
important for which of the
following?
A. Recovering mental functions
lost due to brain damage.
B. Learning a new fact about
biology.
C. Forming a memory of what
you did last night.
D. Neural plasticity would be
equally important for all the
above.
Answer:
D. Neural plasticity would be
equally important for all the
above.
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What is "anosognosia”?
What is "left-side neglect"?
Answer:
Left-side neglect is a form
of attention deficit where a
person no longer
acknowledges the left side
of his/her body or space.
What is its primary cause of
"left-side neglect"?
Answer:
 Damage to the right
parietal lobe.
Answer:
The person with right
parietal lobe damage is
unaware of the problems
that he or she is
experiencing.
Question:
What is agraphia or
dysgraphia?
Answer:
 A writing disability.
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What is acalculia or
dyscalculia?
Answer:
A lack of understanding of
the rules for calculation or
arithmetic.
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What is finger agnosia?
Answer:
 An inability to identify
fingers.
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What is simultanagnosia?
Answer:
 An inability to
perceive more than
one object at a time.
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What is the name for an
inability to fixate and follow
an object with one's eyes?
Answer:
 Optic apraxia.
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What is optic ataxia?
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What is nociception?
Answer:
 A severe misreaching
for objects.
Answer:
 The processing of pain.
Question:
What separates the parietal
lobe from the temporal
lobe?
Answer:
 Sylvian fissure, or
 Lateral sulcus, or
 Lateral fissure.
Which task would not be
affected by damage to the
right parietal lobe?
A. Shape recognition.
B. Dressing.
C. Doing arithmetic.
D. Writing.
Answer:
D. Writing.
Question:
Which part of the cereberal
cortex is most likely damaged
if a patient is experiencing
difficulty sensing touch on the
left of his body?
A. The right parietal
lobe.
B. The left parietal lobe.
Answer:
A. The right parietal lobe.
Question:
Which of the following is a person
most likely to experience following
damage to the somatosensory
cortex in the left parietal lobe?
A. Left-side neglect and
anosognosia.
B. Right-side neglect and
anosognosia.
C. Problems with tactile
perception on the left side of
the body.
D. Problems with tactile
perception on the right side
of the body.
Answer:
D. Problems with tactile perception
on the right side of the body.