Thompson-Schill and Colleagues (1997, 1998) Conducted an Experiment in Which

question 20

Multiple Choice

Thompson-Schill and colleagues (1997, 1998) conducted an experiment in which participants generated an appropriate verb in response to a presented noun. They found that the processing of nouns such as rope, which have many semantically associated verbs, elicited ________ activity in the inferior frontal cortex than did nouns such as scissors, which do not. This result supports the ________ hypothesis of inferior frontal lobe function.

• A)greater; working memory retrieval
• B)greater; selection
• C)less; working memory retrieval
• D)less; selection

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Definitions:

Kinetic Energy

The energy that an object possesses due to its motion.

Facilitated Diffusion

Passive transport mechanism in which a solute follows its concentration gradient across a membrane by moving through a transport protein.

Concentration Gradient

A variation in the concentration of a substance across a distance.

Glucose Transporter

Proteins located in cell membranes that assist in the transport of glucose molecules into and out of cells, facilitating the use of glucose for energy.