Download Occipital Lobe Cards

Question:
The Occipital Lobe is the
primary visual area of the
brain.
True or False?
Answer:
 True
Question:
Where does the Occipital
Lobe receive projections
from the retina through?
Answer:
 The Thalamus
Question:
Which groups of
information are encoded by
neurons in the Occipital
Lobe?
A. Colour.
B. Orientation.
C. Motion.
D. All the above.
Answer:
D. All the above.
Question:
Which pathways go from
the Occipital Lobe to the
Temporal Lobe and the
Parietal Lobe?
A. Dorsal
B. Ventral streams
C. Both
Answer:
C. Both
Question:
The dorsal stream
processes where objects
are located are in space.
True or False?
Answer:
 True
Question:
The ventral stream
processes object
recognition and
representation.
True or False?
Question:
What part of the brain is
involved in relaying
information between the
brain stem and different
cortexes?
Answer:
 True
Answer:
 The thalamus.
Question:
The thalamus contributes
to:
A. Perception.
B. Movement.
C. Timing.
D. All the above.
Answer:
D. All of the above.
Question:
Is the thalamus involved in
alertness and awareness?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer:
A. Yes
Question:
Korbinian Brodmann
mapped the human brain
into 47 areas.
True or False?
Answer:
 True
Question:
The Primary Visual Cortex is
made of how many areas?
Answer:
 Four areas.
Question:
What part of the
Brodmann’s Map is the
Primary Visual Cortex?
Answer:
 Area 17
Question:
What is the Primary Visual
Cortex also known as?
Answer:
 Striate Cortex.
Question:
What does Charles Bonnet
syndrome cause?
Answer:
 Blind people to
hallucinate.
Question:
Name three causes of
agnosia.
Answer:
 Brain damage
 Head injury
 Stroke
 Infection
 Hereditary
 Tumours
Question:
Who first described
agnosia?
Answer:
 Sigmund Freud
Question:
Name a symptom of
agnosia.
Answer:
 The inability to
recognise visual
stimuli.
Question:
Name a symptom of optic
aphasia.
Answer:
 Ability to name but not
recognise visual stimuli.
Question:
When is synaesthesia
caused?
Answer:
 During the pruning,
when we have too
many brain cells
during childhood.
Question:
What are the symptoms of
synaesthesia.
Answer:
 Seeing colours when
hearing noises or
seeing an object.
Question:
Where does the ventral
stream lead to?
Question:
Where does the dorsal
stream lead to?
Question:
Where is the occipital lobe
in the brain?
Answer:
Answer:
Answer:
 Posterior (back)
 Temporal lobe.
 Parietal lobe
Question:
The occipital lobe
development is incomplete
at birth.
True or False?
Answer:
 True.
Question:
What is “amblyopia”?
Answer:
 Blindness, with no
obvious damage to
the eyes/ optic
nervous system.
Question:
Which of the four lobes is
the smallest?
Question:
The left occipital lobe
analysis written symbols.
True or False?
Question:
The right occipital lobe
analysis written symbols.
True or False?
Answer:
 The occipital lobe.
Answer:
 True.
Answer:
 False.
Question:
Is the occipital lobe
bilateral?
Yes or No?
Answer:
 Yes.