lezione 10

Jean Pierre-Flourens attempted to demonstrate: (10). a) that no functional specialization exists in the human cortex. b) the modular organization of the human cortex. c) the modular organization of the avian cortex. d) that no functional specialization exists in the avian cortex.

Which of the practical aims of neuropsychology has lost importance over time? (10). a) defining a patient’s prognosis. b) placing a patient within a cognitive model. c) contributing to the localization of a lesion. d) classifying a patient from a syndromic point of view.

Which was the first specialized journal of Neuropsychology? (10). a) Neuropsychologia, founded by De Renzi. b) Cortex, founded by Hécaen. c) Neuropsychologia, founded by Hécaen. d) Cortex, founded by De Renzi.

Which article marks the birth of cognitive neuropsychology? (10). a) 1969, Shallice & Warrington on short-term memory. b) 1966, Marshall & Newcombe on acquired dyslexias. c) 1982, Basso et al. on short-term memory. d) 1909, Lichtheim on the classification of aphasias.

Which of these authors is not among the so-called diagram-makers? (10). a) Wernicke. b) Dejerine. c) Broca. d) Lichtheim.

Giovan Battista Vico described the first case of aphasia with a selective deficit for: (10). a) grammatical class — verbs. b) grammatical class — nouns. c) short-term memory. d) semantic class — living/non-living.

Which of the following phrenological intuitions was correct? (10). a) language areas located in the retro-orbital regions. b) the central nervous system can be seen as a collection of organs with specific localization. c) no functional specialization exists in the human cortex. d) the brain region of "ideality" located in the dorsal frontal regions.

Which assumption of cognitive neuropsychology remained unproven until the 1980s–90s? (10). a) modularity. b) transparency/correspondence. c) they are all easily unprovable. d) universality/constancy.

The Milan school of neuropsychology initially distinguished itself for: (10). a) creating new anatomo-behavioral diagrams. b) extensive application of psychometrics and statistics to group studies. c) study of single cases. d) none of the answers is correct.

Which of these authors did not participate in the founding conference of the cognitive revolution? (10). a) Miller. b) Posner. c) Chomsky. d) None of those listed participated.

Which of the following does not represent a strong double dissociation? (10). a) right hemiplegia and left hemiplegia. b) short-term memory disorder and long-term memory disorder. c) Wernicke’s aphasia and Broca’s aphasia. d) right and left visual hemifield deficit.

Who first described a case of cortical blindness with anosognosia? (10). a) Babinski. b) Wittgenstein. c) Anton. d) Seneca.

Who was the first scholar to hold a university chair in neuropsychology? (10). a) Lashley at Harvard. b) Hebb at Yale. c) Hebb in Montreal. d) Lashley at Cambridge.

What is the primary deficit that drew researchers’ attention in the description of patient PV? (10). a) the selective recency-effect deficit in auditory tasks. b) sentence repetition deficit and impairment on the Token Test. c) deficit in the Brown–Peterson procedure. d) deficit on the digit span.

Who described the basis for what represents the first anatomo-functional double dissociation in the nervous system? (10). a) Bell and Magendie. b) Broca and Wernicke. c) Dejerine and Pierre Marie. d) Freud and Lichtheim.