Packet 6: Bonus 4
Studies of this part of the brain in mice by Elizabeth Shaw Gould et. al. helped overturn the consensus that adult neurogenesis did not exist. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this brain structure. Brenda Milner studied a patient known as H.M. who could still draw a star using his reflection despite losing this structure.
ANSWER: hippocampus
[10e] The long-term potentiation of cells in the hippocampus to form memories is an example of this phenomenon, studied in rats and Albert Einstein by Marian Diamond, whereby neural networks change and adapt.
ANSWER: neuroplasticity [or word forms of plastic; anti-prompt on long-term potentiation]
[10h] This celebrity inflamed arguments over whether neural encoding is “sparse” or “coarse” in 2005 when Quian Quiroga, Fried, et al. found a “grandma cell” in a patient’s hippocampus that activated in response to mention of her.
ANSWER: Jennifer Aniston [accept, due to Quian Quiroga’s later studies, Julia Roberts or Halle Berry]
<JG, Social Science> | NAFTA-Packet-6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 13.95 | 91% | 35% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford B | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Team 7 | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Team 8 | Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 0% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |