Nora Has Had Hearing Defects Since She Was a Child

question 108

Multiple Choice

Nora has had hearing defects since she was a child. She is now 43 and a new procedure to regenerate hair cells in the auditory canal has helped her to have those hearing defects corrected. What most likely occurred in Nora's brain as a result?

• A)Not much; she was too old to have much brain plasticity.
• B)Areas of her brain involved in sound perception changed noticeably.
• C)Auditory signals were rerouted to the better functioning visual cortex.
• D)Broca's area had trouble interpreting all the new sounds.

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Definitions:

State-Dependent Learning

A phenomenon that memory retrieval is most efficient when an individual is in the same state of consciousness as they were when the memory was formed.

Context Attribute

The context in which an event occurred, which can be a retrieval cue

Context Cues

Environmental or situational indicators that affect how behaviors and responses are displayed or interpreted.

Spatial

Relating to space or spatial relationships; involves the ability to visualize and manipulate objects and their positions in space.