Reference no: EM133405534

-Lobes of the brain. Identify the lobes of the brain.

1. Mary has seizures that involve the sensation of something touching her right leg. What specific part of the brain is involved?

2. During Jim's brain surgery, the surgeon stimulated his brain with an electrode that resulted in Jim hearing music. What lobe of the brain was stimulated?

3. A skater falls while ice-skating slamming their head onto the ice. The skater now has trouble processing visual information, likely they damaged what lobe?

4. After a stroke, Nina can understand everything you say but cannot speak clearly and communicates with audible grunts/groans. What specific brain region was damaged?

5. Victor was thrown from a car and suffered severe brain injury called Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome. He shows cycles of wakefulness and sleep, so his subcortical region is functioning. However, he shows no higher order emotions, cognitive function, or language ability: his must be damaged.

6. Someone with damage to Broca's Area could "Would you like coffee?" but not "Yes, thank you."

a. comprehend; speak

b. speak; understand

7. Amputees may experience "Phantom Limb Pain" occurring in what specific part of the cortex?

8. Ronald is a callous person and enjoys humiliating other people without shame. He cannot pay attention to any one thing and is extremely impulsive and irrational. Ronald must have a damaged:

9. Gary is being treated for epileptic seizures. In the hospital he has electrodes on his scalp. When one is turned on, Gary describes to the physician what happened, "Wow, your face just got distorted, but like someone I know, but your nose was sagging." The electrode must have been over the Area for this interesting facial recognition to have happened.

10. Area in the frontal lobe is responsible for Language Production (speaking). That also means that it's in the ____________HEMISPHERE.