Following the Development of a Brain Tumor,Jerome Starts to Exhibit

question 91

Multiple Choice

Following the development of a brain tumor,Jerome starts to exhibit impulsive behavior with little regard for right or wrong.He attacks a man in a bar for looking at him the "wrong" way,breaking the man's nose and damaging bar property.Yet,he feels no remorse for the harm he has caused.The tumor is most likely in Jerome's ____.

• A)somatosensory cortex
• B)occipital lobe
• C)parietal lobe
• D)orbitofrontal cortex

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Definitions:

Categorical Perception

The classification of sounds that vary on an acoustic dimension continuously into discrete categories.

Template-Matching

A theory in perception that suggests objects are recognized by matching sensory input with stored templates or patterns in the brain.

Speech Sounds

are the audible units and elements of language produced by the vocal tract, including vowels, consonants, and intonation patterns, that are fundamental to verbal communication.

David Marr

A British neuroscientist and psychologist known for his work on vision and computational neuroscience.