Building Better Brains B2
Building Better Brains B2
Building Better Brains B2
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This exam is intended to check your ability to
comprehend the text in English relevant to the level of
the course you have taken.
You have to answer all the questions.
Time allotted: 2,5 hours
Please write in pen only.
You may use English- Hebrew Dictionary.
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Building Better Brains ^ B 2 Mitkadmim
Ariel University Center of Samaria
1. What three methods can be used to increase the amount of information and
statistics the human mind can use?
a. Education (ONE WORD ONLY)
b. Computers (ONE WORD ONLY)
c. Neurobiology (ONE WORD ONLY) (9 points)
5. In the future, brain studies will benefit people with physical disabilities, since
doctors will be able to reconstruct and restore Nervous system (UP TO
TWO WORDS) in the body. (6 points)
(7 points)
7. Even though we expect to gain a lot of knowledge from unraveling the genome
over the next ten years, we may still not be able to comprehend how:
a. growing more complicated neural structures (UP TO FIVE
WORDS)
b. repair and replacement of accessible structures (UP TO
FIVE WORDS)
c. direct neural brain connections (UP TO FIVE WORDS)
(9 points)
8. Why will man, in the future, most likely desire to continue pursuing
information on brain, beyond the simpler applications?
i. Add useful new capabilities to their minds .
ii. New neural structures supporting new mental powers
will lead to new mental sensations. (8 points)
today. Thus we might find that all our emotions are combinations
of a few basic emotional "atoms." By studying the way the basic
emotions combine to produce our present emotions, we could
combine them in new ways to create emotions never before
experienced. An enormous world of mental sensations awaits our
exploration, analogous to the immense number and variety of
biological species.
9. List two methods that may be used to connect remote parts of the body and
brain with neuron groups:
a. To place a line of "beacon" cells to guide the
growth of new branches along the desired path.
b. Connect the neurons to an electronic interface,
which would convert the neuron's signals to electronic
signals and relay them directly to the target neuron group .
(8 points)
11. The author would AGREE / DISAGREE (CIRCLE ONE) with the following
statement:
In the future, we will be able to merge basic emotions, producing new emotions
that people have never experienced before.