Imagine That You Have Stumbled Across a Secret Laboratory Where

question 44

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you have stumbled across a secret laboratory where an evil scientist is conducting unauthorized brain research.By altering brain structures he has created superheroes that have specialized powers or abilities.One of these superheroes has a fantastic memory and is able to remember new information almost instantly.In this case,one of the brain structure that the scientist MOST likely altered would be

• A) the amygdala.
• B) the pons.
• C) the hippocampus.
• D) the reticular formation.

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Definitions:

Binding Problem

The challenge in cognitive science of explaining how different aspects of a sensory experience (like color, shape, and location) are integrated into a cohesive whole in our perception.

Functions

Mathematical entities that assign a single output value for each input value, following specific rules or relationships.

Split-Brain Patients

Individuals who have had the corpus callosum, the connective bridge between the brain's two hemispheres, severed, often as a treatment for severe epilepsy, leading to unique insights into brain function.

Minds

The element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.