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1
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visual processing occurs in the what lobe

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occipital

2
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anatomical feature of primary visual cortex

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calcarine sulcus

3
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in the superior temporal sulcus, neurons are active in the what

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STS

4
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visual cortex has no regions for what

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emotion

5
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ventral stream does

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visual object recognition

6
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facial features follow visual attention to

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L visual field

7
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milner and goodale posterior parietal research

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activation when monkey reaches for stimulus

8
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STS has

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polysensory

9
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blindness to the entire visual field

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homonymous hemianopia

10
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unilateral destucion of L occipital lobe is

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Rvisual field hemianopia

11
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most of the primary visual cortex is represented in the

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fovea

12
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bitemporal hemianopia

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loss of vision from bth temporal fields, lesion to optic chiasm, peripheral vision on both sides lost

13
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nasal hemianopia

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loss of vision to 1 nasal field, lesion of lateral chiasm

14
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homonymous hemianopia

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blindness of entire visual field, results from complete cut of optic tract, LGN or V1, cut at bottom

15
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macular sparing

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sparing of central or macular region of visual field, lesion to occipital lobe

16
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no conscious awareness of touch, but can accurately report it

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blindsight

17
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unable to use visual info to guide movement

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optic ataxia

18
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apperceptive agnosia

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inability to perceive structure of objects, widespread bilateral occipital lobe

19
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prosopagnosia

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cant recognize faces

20
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blind spot

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scotoma

21
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simultagnosia

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inability to see multiple objects at the same time

22
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anosognosia

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lack of awareness

23
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acalculia

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inability to do calculations

24
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astereogenosis

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inability to recognize an object by touch

25
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autopagnosia

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no knowledge of issues, no awareness of body

26
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agraphia

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cant write

27
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dysphasia

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inability to speak, comprehend

28
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afferent paresis

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clumsy finger movements

29
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apraxia

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nothing is wrong but you lose movement—ideomotor, constructional

30
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associative agnosia

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describe, not name

31
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image generation occurs in

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L hemisphere

32
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parietal lobe ventrally marked by

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sylvian fissure

33
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supramarginal/angular gyrus demarks

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inferior parietal

34
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parietal cortex and prefrontal cortex function

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spatially guided behavior

35
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posterior parietal damage causes inability to

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reach toward visual target

36
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sensory feedback actual outcome intended movement is

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efference

37
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medial parietal region function

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spatial navigation

38
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mental transformations

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organize gray matter in anterior parietal

39
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math, mentally rotating and manipulating objects

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mental space in posterior parietal

40
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posterior to central sulcus function

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processing somatosensory info

41
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pari stroke-reports R touch when L touch

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allesthesia

42
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1 object at a time, misreach–disease

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Ballint’s

43
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R parietal lesions-what neglect

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unilateral neglect

44
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hemispatial neglect causes

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impaired attention to personal space

45
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cant identify fingers/do math

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Gerstmann

46
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posterior parietal does what

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L and R distinguishing

47
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Posner, parietal lobes to attention

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shift attention

48
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R pari

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R/L distinguishing

49
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line bisection task

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contralateral task

50
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auditory association cortex

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insula

51
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anterior commissure connects R&L

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medial temp

52
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neurons in the middle temporal gyrus

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corpus callosum

53
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hippocampus input

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perforant pathway

54
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temporal lobes

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control visual tracking

55
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projection from temporal lobe to frontal lobe

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short term memory and affect

56
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medial temporal does what

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long term memory formation

57
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temporal and effective occurs in

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amygdala

58
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temp cross modal matching

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vocal characteristic and face

59
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intentions from movement

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theory of mind

60
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movie brain scans

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stereotypical manner

61
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temporal cortex, tanka

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category formation

62
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thatcher

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upright eyes and mouth

63
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individual speech sounds

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formants

64
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fundamental frequencies and harmonies

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spectral pitch

65
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more gray matter in heschels in musicians

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not nonmusicians

66
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prosody, anterograde

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not in temp personality

67
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prefrontal connections

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from dorsomedial nucleus thalamus

68
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prefrontal

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distracted by external cues, orbitofrontal (anterior temp lobes), plot chess

69
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executive function

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appropriate behavioral strategies from cues

70
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up right front than L all but 1

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verbal fluency

71
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frontal

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olfaction

orbital-amyg and hypothalamus

72
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programming sequences

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premotor

73
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frontal injury/copying

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face movements

74
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corollary discharge

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reafference, internal neural signal that movement will occur

75
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L supp speech and medial frontal

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speak spontaneously

76
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less novel designs

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R frontal

77
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decision making tasks high in ambiguity

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orbiofrontal and amyg

78
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poor temp memory

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dorsolateral prefrontal

79
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dopamine

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schizophrenia

80
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corpus callosum

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connection, commissures

81
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ridges

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gyri

82
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brain and spinal cord

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CNS

83
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materialism

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workings physical nervous system and body alone

84
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early localization

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human language disorders

speech-L frontal

85
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speech comprehension

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temporal

86
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unitary perception from multiple streams

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binding problem

87
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psychometrics

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development intelligence tests

88
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blood supply interruptions

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stroke

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rostral to caudal in CNS

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brain to spinal cord

90
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ipsilateral

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same side

91
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contralateral

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opposite side

92
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afferent

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arriving

93
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efferent

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exiting

94
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top

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dorsal

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bottom

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ventral

96
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front

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anterior

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back

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posterior

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parasympathetic and sympathetic

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autonomic

99
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dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater,

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outside to inside

100
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CSF role

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cushion brain

101
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originates from stem cell

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lj ;lkj

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glia cells

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supporting nervous system cells

103
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spinal cord segments

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30

104
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damage to dorsal fibers in SC

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sensation

105
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dorsal sensory, ventral motor

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bell magendia

106
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thalamus

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sensory relay

107
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lateraltiy function

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genetics, gender, handedness

108
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functional differences&raquo_space; cortical sites

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than sides

109
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L had greater

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planum temporal

110
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anatomical asymmetric

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language areas

111
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L asymmetry

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gentler sylvian fissure slope

112
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R asymmetry

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less gray matter, farther anteriorly, larger heschls

113
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localization experiment

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double dissociation

114
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IQ test, nonverball recall, copying

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R temp

115
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cut corpus callosum for

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epilepsy, commissurotomy, key in L hand recognize shapes not verbal

116
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chimeric stimuli

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face to left visual field only

117
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R carotid artery

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contralateral arm exhibit flaccid paralysis

118
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visual images presented individually

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tachistoscope

119
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meoldies in dichotic listnening

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l ear advantage

120
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multiple simulataneous stimulia

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increased blood flow in R hemi

121
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rapidly presented stimuli

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specialize in L hemi

122
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lateralization interpreted with care

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affect by cognitive strategies

123
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dictionary word storage

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lexicon

124
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phonemes sounding

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phonological

125
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kids, developmental dyslexia

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none

126
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tallal, 1 or 2 tones

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10 and 40 msec

127
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ACID profile

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dyslexia

128
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austism

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social withdrawl

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savant

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cognitive skills isolated

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hyperlexia

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precocious reading

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ritalin

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hyperactivity

132
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cerebral palsy cause

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birth developmental injury

133
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CSF made by

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choroid plexus

134
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impaitments autistic motor skills

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cerebellum

135
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aspergers

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less sever autism

136
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fragile X syndrom

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femmales less symptoms than males, 2 X chromosomes

137
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geschwind galaburda

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asymmetric develop in males, fetal testosterone