1. A man is having a great deal of difficulty sensing touch on the left side of his body after having a tumor removed from his cerebral cortex. Where in his brain did he most likely suffer damage?

A. the right parietal lobe

2. Look at Figure 1 in Section 4-5. Which of the following parts of the body should be the most sensitive to touch according to the figure?

A. the thumb

3. Look at Figure 1 in Section 4-5 in order to answer the following question. Let's say that a woman has lost one of her thumbs. Based on the discussion of brain plasticity, the woman would be most likely to feel tactile sensations in her missing (phantom) thumb when her _____ on the same side of the body was stroked with a feather.

C. forehead

4.When the somatosensory cortex in the left parietal lobe is damaged, a person is most likely to experience

D. problems with tactile perception on the right side of the body.

5. The somatosensory cortex is located in the _____ lobes.

B. parietal

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