A Failure to Recognize That One's Arm or Leg Is

question 83

Multiple Choice

A failure to recognize that one's arm or leg is part of one's self is most likely to be associated with damage to the

• A) corpus callosum.
• B) cerebellum.
• C) right hemisphere.
• D) motor cortex.

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Definitions:

Postsynaptic

Relating to or occurring at the receiving end of a synapse in the nervous system where neuron-to-neuron communication takes place.

Depolarization

A process in which the electrical charge of a cell's membrane becomes less negative, triggering an action potential in neurons and muscle cells.

Repolarization

The process by which a neuron or muscle cell returns to its resting negative membrane potential after being depolarized.

Hippocampus

Region of the central nervous system associated with learning and memory; part of the limbic system.