Chapter 9 Quiz – H5P.com

Which area of the brain plays a central role in processing emotional responses to music?

The term gyrification refers to:

Which region makes up nearly 80% of the cerebral cortex?

Individuals with Williams Syndrome:

Neuroimaging data support which of these statements?

There is a music center in the brain that lies opposite to the speech center.
There are discernible differences in the brains of adult musicians that are most likely due to training.
The primary region for music processing is in the left hemisphere.
Music activates the brains of female musicians more strongly in the right hemisphere and the brains of male musicians in the left hemisphere.

Optimal periods:

Which statement is not supported by neuroimaging data?

Studying music makes you smarter at math.
Structural changes in the brain are usually greater in individuals who started studying music before the age of 7.
While performing a sensory integration task, musicians receive a benefit from the combination of auditory and visual information more than controls do.
Imagining a musical performance activates similar areas of the brain as an actual musical performance.

Which approach allows researchers to monitor rapid brain responses in terms of milliseconds?

Which of the following is primarily responsible for communicating information within and between hemispheres?

Myelination refers to:

a process of staining slides of neurons for electronic microscopes.
elimination of unused synapses.
a process of wrapping axons in a fatty sheath to improve speed and efficiency of message transmission.
patterns of growth in different parts of the brain at different times.