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After reading the following article, print and answer this quiz. Quiz due April 27, 2007.

Cristo Pantev, A. Engelien, V. Candia, & T. Elbert (2001). Representational cortex in musicians: Plastic alterations in response to musical practice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Vol. 930, pp. 300-314.

Answer the following questions:

1. The capacity of the brain to "re-wire" itself is referred to as
   • deafferentation
   • cortical flexibility
   • pliancy
   • plasticity
   • neural adaptation
   
   
   
2. Hebb's Rule states that:
   • Cells that fire together, wire together.
   • Neurons that lose their inputs are recruited by neighboring regions.
   • Practice makes perfect.
   • Intensive sensory stimulation leads to an expansion of the corresponding cortical area.
   
   
   
3. For their somatosensory experiment, the stimulus used by Pantev and colleagues was:
   • a rotating wheel in contact with the fingers
   • air blown on the finger tips
   • electrical stimulation of the finger tips
   • pressing of keys
   
   
   
4. The principal finding of Pantev and colleagues is:
   • the magnitude of cortical adaptation to a sound or to finger-stimulation depends primarily on the size of the participant's brain
   • the magnitude of cortical adaptation to a sound or to finger-stimulation depends primarily on the age of the participant
   • the magnitude of cortical adaptation to a sound or to finger-stimulation depends primarily on the age at which the musician started to play their instrument
   
   
   
5. Focal hand distonia is caused by:
   • smearing of the cortical representations for neighboring fingers
   • tendonitus arising from overuse
   • repetitive stress
   • carpal tunnel syndrome
   
   
   

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