If a Person Experiences a Stroke That Damages the Pre-Frontal

question 35

Multiple Choice

If a person experiences a stroke that damages the pre-frontal cortex but leaves other brain areas largely intact, what might you reasonably expect to see as a symptom based on the primate experiments described in the text?

• A) an inability to recall a sequence of numbers given a minute earlier
• B) difficulty remembering the location of an object that has been out of sight for several minutes
• C) deficits in learning to associate sensory stimuli with an event
• D) difficulty keeping track of multiple things at once
• E) all of the above could be reasonable predictions.

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