PSYC 260: INTRODUCTION IN NEUROSCIENCE

 Chapter 10 Hearing and Language

1. Briefly expain how loudness is coded in the bipolar cells of the auditory system.

2. Briefly explain the concept of tonotopic organization, and describe how the primary auditory cortex is tonotopically organized.

3. Describe prosody.

4. Discuss the results of two positron emission tomography (PET) studies, the speech-sound discrimination task, and the word-nonword decision task. What do these studies tell us about Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas?

5. Describe the relationship between the complexity of song in canaries and the brain nuclei involved in the production of song.