Deck 21: Extension: B - Spatial Behavior

Question 1

Distinguish between egocentric disorientation and heading orientation.

Answer 1

Egocentric disorientation refers to the inability to perceive the location of an object with respect to the self-for example, pointing out the location of furniture around you. Heading orientation is the ability to establish a course or direction of where you intend to go. Patients with heading disorientation have no sense of direction; they can describe where they want to go but they cannot set a course.

Question 2

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the scientist in each question with the most appropriate alternative from the list below.
Taube ___

A)head-direction cells
B)parietal lobe role in spatial memory
C)frontal lobe role in spatial memory
D)hippocampal place cells

Answer 2

head-direction cells

Question 3

What are the four ways in which animals may represent space relative to themselves?

Answer 3

The four ways are body space, grasping space, distal space, and time space.

Question 4

What is landmark agnosia?

Question 5

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the scientist in each question with the most appropriate alternative from the list below.
Goldman - Rakic ___

A)head-direction cells
B)parietal lobe role in spatial memory
C)frontal lobe role in spatial memory
D)hippocampal place cells

Question 6

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the disorder of spatial perception with the most appropriate description from the list below.
landmark agnosia ___

A)inability to determine a direction of movement
B)inability to use prominent environmental features for orientation
C)difficulty perceiving the relative location of objects with respect to self
D)inability to remember topographic relations among landmarks

Question 7

Describe how you could use the Morris water task to test both cue and place responses in rats.

Question 8

What evidence exists that neurogenesis may play an important role in spatial memory ability?

Question 9

Why is the Morris water maze so useful in studying spatial behavior?

Question 10

What are the main symptoms of Bálint's syndrome?

Question 11

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the disorder of spatial perception with the most appropriate description from the list below.
egocentric disorientation ___

A)inability to determine a direction of movement
B)inability to use prominent environmental features for orientation
C)difficulty perceiving the relative location of objects with respect to self
D)inability to remember topographic relations among landmarks

Question 12

Marshall the evidence to support or attack the idea that the hippocampus serves as a "cognitive map."

Question 13

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the disorder of spatial perception with the most appropriate description from the list below.
topographic disorientation ___

A)inability to determine a direction of movement
B)inability to use prominent environmental features for orientation
C)difficulty perceiving the relative location of objects with respect to self
D)inability to remember topographic relations among landmarks

Question 14

Discuss the role of temporal lobe structures in spatial behavior.

Question 15

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the disorder of spatial perception with the most appropriate description from the list below.
heading disorientation ___

A)inability to determine a direction of movement
B)inability to use prominent environmental features for orientation
C)difficulty perceiving the relative location of objects with respect to self
D)inability to remember topographic relations among landmarks

Question 16

Distinguish between the two types of topographic disorientation.

Question 17

Discuss the role of the parietal lobe in spatial discriminations.

Question 18

Discuss the role of the frontal lobe in spatial discriminations.

Question 19

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the scientist in each question with the most appropriate alternative from the list below.
Bálint ___

A)head-direction cells
B)parietal lobe role in spatial memory
C)frontal lobe role in spatial memory
D)hippocampal place cells

Question 20

Use the following to answer questions:
Match the scientist in each question with the most appropriate alternative from the list below.
O'Keefe ___

A)head-direction cells
B)parietal lobe role in spatial memory
C)frontal lobe role in spatial memory
D)hippocampal place cells

Question 21

Explain how head - direction, place, and grid cells might work together as a rat forages for food in the environment near its burrow.

Question 22

Describe the reported interaction between reasoning skills and sex on the performance of tasks requiring spatial skills.

Question 23

Distinguish between place cells and head - direction cells.

Question 24

How do Turner's syndrome individuals perform on spatial tasks (on average)? What may account for their performance?
Answer Key

Question 25

In what ways do the spatial abilities of males and females differ?

Question 26

What evidence exists that the role of the hippocampus in spatial navigation should be interpreted in the broader context of its role in memory?

Question 27

What is the relationship between hippocampal size and food storing in birds?