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3 The Spatial Brain Flashcards

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what is attention

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Attention is the process by which certain information is selected for further processing and other information is discarded

Attention is the ability to select the stimulus, focus on it, sustain that focus, and shift that focus

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what does the brain not regard space as

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• Brain doesn’t regard space as a continuous single entity

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what are the 3 forms space exists in the brain

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(1) Locations on sensory surfaces (e.g. the retina; retinocentric space)
(2) Location of objects relative to the body (egocentric space)
(3) Location of objects relative to each other (allocentric space)

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how do we locate things

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In order to locate things in space we use cross-modal perception (integrating information from sight, sound, touch…)

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is attention directed

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Attention tends to be directed to locations in space (space is a common dimension of different sensory systems and our motor system) – spotlight metaphor

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do we have limited attention

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Limited capacity to process all received information, so selection based on relevance or importance to current goals

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why do we need attention

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Attention may be needed to bind together different aspects of conscious perception (e.g. shape and colour, sound and vision)

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what is retinocentric space

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locations on sensory surfaces - the retina

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what is egocentric space

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locations of objects relative to the body

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what is allocentric space

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locations of objects relative to eachother

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what is the spotlight metaphor of attention

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• Spotlight may move from one location to another (e.g. in visual search)

• It may zoom in or out (narrow or wide “beam”), e.g. if attending to words or
attending to central letter in a word

• Location of attention not necessarily same as eye fixation (“looking out corner of
one’s eyes”) – however, there is a natural tendency for attention and eye-fixations
to go together

• Limited capacity: not everything is illuminated

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is the spotlight limited

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yes limited capacity - not everything is illuminated

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what controls the spotlight

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exogenous control

inhibition of return

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what is exogenous control

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externally guided by a stimulus

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what is inhibition of return

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IOR

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spotlight can be guided by an external stimulus

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e.g. flash of light

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presented pps with squares

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Presented pps with squares - see a target a red square press a button
Every now and then there was a flash of light as a cue where a potential target might appear and posner just measured reaction times

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how do you use endogenous control in a visual search

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scanning the environment to find something youre looking for
spotlight can be guided internally

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examples of visual search

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radiographers
airport security personnel
experts in visual search

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visual search task in labs colour

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flat - efficient - parallel
Arrays with many items and one is different which is target
Defined by one feature which is colour
When we have only one feature that is defining an item we find it immediately we don’t have to look we can just scan and know what is target
Flat efficient parallel search - finding of an item that is defined by only one feature really doesn’t matter on how many distractor or what is the display size we’re looking for this one will immediately pop out

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visual search task in labs colour and oreintation

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steep - inefficient - serial
On the other hand if we have a target that is defined by colour and orientation it takes a bit longer to find target bc we have to scan several items in display before we find the target
Steep in efficient serial
Bc we have to scan different distractor
Depends on the number of distractors and display size the more there are a the slower we are
If target is absent it takes us even longer bc we keep searching for target until we find it

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what is feature integration theory

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  • Perceptual features (e.g. colour, line orientations) are encoded in parallel and prior to attention
  • If an object has a unique perceptual feature then it may be detected without the need for attention – “pop-out” (left array)
  • If an object shares features with other objects (right array) then it cannot be detected from a single perceptual feature and attention is needed to search all candidates serially
  • “Pop-out” is not affected by number of items to be searched
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what is ‘pop out’

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a single feature search

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what is conjunction search

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target is defined by the combination of different features

reaction time increases with number of distractors

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what is the dorsal pathway

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reaches up into the parietal lobes and is important in processing information about where items are located and how they might be acted on, guiding movements such as grasping

where - tells us where the objects are located in space
sometimes called the how route bc it tells us how objects can be manipulated
mostly associated with parietal lobes

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what is the ventral pathway

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reaches down into the temporal lobes - this pathway processes information that leads to the recognition and identification of objects

ventral - what - tells us identity of object

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what do the parietal lobes do

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Space, Attention and Parietal Lobes
Parietal lobes specialized for spatial processing and have been called the “where” route (Ungerleider & Mishkin)

Parietal lobes also bring together different types of spatial representation that are needed for action (e.g. integrating visual space with body space) so also called the “how” route

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once the information is processed through the visual system what happens

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Once the information is processed through the visual system it leaves the visual system in two routes so the information is either processed through the dorsal route or the ventral route

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what are the two main attention related networks

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There are two main attention related networks depending on whether we employ attention internally or externally:

  1. a dorso-dorsal network (blue) involving lateral intraparietal area LIP and Frontal eye fields (FEF).
  2. ventro-dorsal stream (right tempo-parietal junction and ventral frontal cortex) that interrupts any cognitive task in order to divert attention away from processing - external deployment of attention
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internal deployment of attention

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If we engage in a certain visual task which is internal deployment of attention - blue network will be engaged - dorso-dorsal network - bc it involves parietal areas in particular lateral parietal areas such as superior parietal fields and frontal eye fields
Frontal eye fields are involved in voluntary eye movements and they control our eye movements so when we’re looking for things actively dorsal route is employed

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external deployment of attention

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if you hear a cry for help while you’re doing something else then this ventro-dorsal networks is employed x made up for areas such as temporal parietal junction particularly on the right side and the ventral frontal context such as the medial frontal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus so this is when our attention is deployed externally

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in humans there may be hemespheric asymmetry of…

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parietal lobes

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what does right parietal lobe contain

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Right parietal lobe contains richer representation of space (left space and some right space)

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what does left parietal lobe contain

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Left parietal lobe contains an impoverished representation of space (predominantly of right side only)

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what is pseudoneglect caused by

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The greater spatial specialization of right parietal lobe means that we all
have a tendency to attend to left side of space (pseudoneglect)

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what are parietal lobes important for

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Parietal lobes important for deployment of attention whether it be externally or internally

Left space is more richly represented in brain that right space

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do we have a leftward spatial bias

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yes

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neglect

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Brain injury, including stroke, can affect cognitive as well as physical and sensory abilities (Wade 1985). Cognitive deficits include a disorder of spatial awareness or attention known as spatial neglect or inattention. The most widely quoted definition of neglect is a description of the resulting behavioural disabilities: “fails to report, respond, or orient to novel or meaningful stimuli presented to the side opposite a brain lesion” (Heilman 2003). Neglect is not due to a sensory or motor impairment although these often co-occur. Neglect is a disorder which can reduce a person’s ability to look, listen or make movements towards one half of their environment. This can also affect their ability to carry out everyday tasks, such as eating, reading and getting dressed (Nijboer 2013).

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what causes neglect

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Neglect is a condition following brain injury or brain damage in which patients fail to be aware of items on ones side of the space

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what is neglect also known as

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Neglect

Also known as unilateral neglect, spatial neglect, or hemispatial neglect

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what happens in neglect

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Patients fail to attend to stimuli on the opposite side of space to their lesion (a right sided lesion would affect the left side of the space)

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where is neglect most prominent

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Neglect is most prominent following stroke to the right hemisphere of the human brain

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what could neglect arise from

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Neglect could arise from different mechanisms:
• loss of neurons dedicated for representation of that space
• a failure to shift attention to that side
• some combination of the two

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what is the right hemisphere in terms of spatial

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a richer representation of space

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lesion overlap site

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right angular gyrus

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what does damage to the right angular gyrus show

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Right angular gyrus - damaged in order for a person to experience neglect
generally lesions in the parietal lobes will lead to neglect

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clinical picture of neglect

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Individuals with neglect do not suffer from any primary disorder of perception, sensation or movement
Most commonly observed in the visual modality – visual neglect
Multimodal neglect reported: auditory and somatosensory (tactile)
Left parietal lesions can result in neglect – less severe and faster recovery

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what can happen in neglect

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Patients may shave, groom and dress one side of the body
Patients may fail to read the left side of words printed anywhere on the page
Patients may fail to eat food placed on left side of the plate

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what happens in line bisection - clinical test of neglect

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simple task
say where midpoint is
Patients with neglect would disregard the left side of space and for them the middle would be closer to the right

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what happens in cancellation tasks - alberts lines and star cancellation

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Cancellation task
Cross lines they perceive
Attending to right side of space
Neglecting left side completely due to their right hemispheric lesion

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what happens when copying a drawing or drawing from memory

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half an object

numbers on one Half of clock

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what are the 5 different types of space and neglect

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Different types of neglect and different types of space

  1. Perceptual vs. representational neglect
  2. Neglect for near vs. far space
  3. Personal vs. peripersonal space
  4. Within objects vs. between objects
  5. Spatial vs. object based neglect
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what is the most common type of space and neglect

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Most common is perceptual neglect - diagnosed with our line based action tasks - so if pps cannot perceive one half space usually the left side of the space this is called a perceptual neglect

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what is a double dissociation

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two single dissociation with complementary profiles

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Perceptual vs. Representational neglect

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The brain contains different references for spatial and imagined events in external space. Perception and imagery can dissociate at higher levels of visual processing ; in both cases the information on the left side is compromised (RH damage)

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what is representational neglect

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neglect affecting memories of scenes
Information on left side is compromised
Either do not attend or do not cancel lines on left side of space but also they can neglect memories of left side of space

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Piazza del Duomo experiment (Bisiach & Luzzatti, 1978)

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Two patients (IG, 86 and N.V., 72 with large right parietal lesions) were asked to describe a familiar place, the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, according to different perspectives. First (a), they were asked to imagine themselves looking at the front of the cathedral from the opposite side of the square; then the reverse perspective.

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patient NV

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Perspective a (blue) in front of the cathedral (facing the cathedral).
Perspective b (red) facing away from the cathedral.

Report all buildings on right neglecting on left
Turn around
Report all buildings on right neglecting on left

When pps changed perspective they’re reported items only on their right neglecting to report items on the left side of the spaceReport all buildings on right neglecting on left
Turn around
Report all buildings on right neglecting on left

When pps changed perspective they’re reported items only on their right neglecting to report items on the left side of the space

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what is a double dissociation in spatial neglect

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Double dissociation between perceptual (line bisection) and representational neglect suggests different spatial reference frames for external versus imagined (mind’s eye) space. Also – spatial knowledge not lost, but unavailable to report

Double dissociation between perceptual space for example in a cancellation or a line bisection task and representational space what you can remember

This tells us they were not that they were unable to remember space on right yet but when they turned around and changed perspective
the spatial knowledge is not lost but unavailable to report

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neglect for near vs far space

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Double dissociation between near space: line bisection using pen and paper – IMPAIRED (Halligan and Marshal, 1991) and far space = SPARED when tested with a light pointer (Vuilleumier et al., 1998)

There is brain imaging evidence suggesting that near space and far space are represented differently in the brain to and the PET experiment with normal pps is showing that. Near space is supported by right parietal areas and frontal areas and far space and making decisions about far space is the visual cortex that is primarily involved in processing
Two different brain regions
Damage to parietal area would induce neglect for near space.
weiss et al.,2000

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what brain region is near space supported by

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right parietal areas

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what brain region is far space supported by

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visual cortex

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personal vs peripersonal space

huseuin et al., 2001

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Double dissociation between personal (bodily) space and near space

Body neglect = failure to groom left of body, notice position of limbs, or feel pain in the left limbs
vs.
Near space neglect = visual search of array of external objects

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peripersonal space

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Peripersonal space - something that is in front of us when patients are involved in a visual search task - eye movements - just attend to right side of space
Peripersonal space is not attended to fully

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  1. Within objects vs. between objects

Hillis et al, 2006

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some neglect patients attend to objects on the left side of space but omit to attend to one half of the object itself (object-based neglect) - STG

Forms a double dissociation with space-based neglect - AG

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object based neglect

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Attend to objects but omit objects on left side
Omit left side of different objects
cross objects on left side

Object based neglect - damage to superior temporal gyrus
Attend to objects on the left side of the space and they attend to half of the object itself

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space based neglect

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Patient is asked to copy picture
Copy entire object but only on right side of space
Damage to angular gyrus
Right angular gyrus - area damaged in most patients with neglect

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axis-based neglect

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  1. Spatial vs. Object based neglect
    Axis-based neglect Driver and Halligan (1991) – patient with object neglect cannot
    detect differences on left side of an object even when falling into right side of space

Detect differences in two objects
Falls in left side of space
Neglect patients usually fail to report that two objects are different
Rotated both objects to right side of space
Even when in right side
Pps failed to report they are different

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Neglect as a Disorder of Attention and Not Low-Level Perception

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  • Neglect patients still activate visual regions in occipital lobes for the information that they claim not to be aware of
  • They are often able to detect objects on the left if cued there
  • Affects auditory and tactile judgments as well as vision (e.g. sounds on left are mislocalized but still heard)
  • Phenomenon of visual extinction suggests different perceptual representations are competing for attention (and visual awareness)
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neglect and extinction

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• When two stimuli (targets) presented simultaneously to the left and right of the patient’s midline – left target typically extinguished

Clinicians want to see if have parietal damage
Ask pps which hand am I moving
Moves both
If patient just points to one hand good indication that there is some kind of parietal damage

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what happens to neglected information - burning house

marshall and halligan 1988

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which house is warmer
neglected information implicitly coded
they dont attend to it but its processed and implicitly coded

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what is egocentric neglect

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(with respect to the observer e.g. line bisection; cancellation)

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what is allocentric neglect

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(with respect to another extrapersonal event; e.g. Piazza del Duomo )

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what is object-centred neglect

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(with respect to a principal axis in the canonical representation of an object; e.g. half of the object or half of the picture)

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rehabilitation of neglect - prism adaptation

rosetti et al 1998

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The process involves patients wearing prism lens glasses that shift their view to the right. When asked to point at objects, they make errors by missing to the right. However, visual
feedback allows them to compensate for the errors and correct towards the left. The particularly exciting thing about this treatment is that the deviation to the left persists after the prism lenses are removed and this can produce a relatively long lasting improvement in symptoms

cognitive treatment
Brain adapts to new perspective
Patient would overshoot in pointing to the left
If worn over some time - long lasting improvement in symptoms

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spatial memory in cab drivers

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What does it feel like to be a London cab driver?
The hippocampi of London taxi drivers were larger than average, possibly because the drivers are constantly exercising their spatial memory.
Right hippocampal formation when remembering navigational task

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what does london cab drivers show

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Difference between spatial memory and representation of the space

Spatial memory processed in a different brain area

Taxi drivers memorise different routes in order to pass different tests
Good spatial memory
Hippocampal formation important for memorisation of space and in particular right hippocampus

Right hippocampus important
More grey matter volume is correlated with driving taxi drivers

More experienced drivers -more developed hippocampus areas

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what are the different roles of hippocampus and parietal lobe

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Different Roles of Hippocampus and Parietal Lobes
• Parietal lobes primarily concerned with linking sensory and egocentric maps of space to create representations of observable environment

  • Hippocampus stores long-term representations of space that need not be presently observed or even viewpoint specific
  • These may sometimes work together; e.g. in the Piazza del Duomo experiment, the hippocampus may store the map of the square, and the parietal lobes may superimpose a viewpoint onto this map - Map of square was there but unable to report due to parietal damage
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what does the hippocampus do

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memory of remembering the space

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what do the parietal lobes do

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representation of the space

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video games and shaping attention and learning

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Studied the effects of video games on perceptual and motor skills
Perceptual learning tends to be specific with a trained task
Action video game playing is capable of altering a range of visual skills
Green & Bavelier, 2003

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call of duty vs sims 2

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Seminal experiment
Tested extensively on a range of psychological tests that measured perception memory working memory sustained attention, visual search, imagery etc.
In lab training on video game
Tested again on questions on pre test

Pps who participated in contrast sensitivity were much better at detecting contrast sensitivity e.g. detecting that there is a stimulus here and that these bars are moving to one side or another
Much better in visual search tasks
Sig better than non action video games in mental rotation tasks

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what do video games effect when searching for shapes

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when searching for a particular object in a sea of shapes, people who played video games regularly showed less activation of the brain regions linked to attention, a sign that their brains were performing the task more efficiently

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brain areas involved in attention

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Action video games - brain areas involved in attention - parietal areas, frontal eye fields and middle frontal cortex
Are all involved with people who don’t play these games regularly

People who play at least 5 hours of action video games per week
Have fewer activations
Brain networks associated with attention need to be activated less
Brain already processes these tasks more efficiently

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the test of variables of attention

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The Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA)
TOVA assesses impulsivity and sustained attention. In this test, participants are required to press a key as fast as possible in response to a target (black square in upper position) and to withhold responding to non-target stimuli (black square presented in lower position).

In one condition, the targets are rare and the nontargets appear frequently. The extent to which participants are able to stay on task and respond quickly to rare targets is a measure of sustained attention.

In a different set of trials, targets appeared frequently, whereas nontargets were rare. The extent to which participants are able to withhold responding to nontargets is a measure of impulsivity.

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what did the test of variables of attention show

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Dye et al.(2009) used TOVA to assess impulsivity and sustained attention in young adults who
were either non-video game players (NVGP) of habitual video game players (VGP)

Their results show that VGPs were overall faster than NVGPs in both the sustained attention and the impulsivity condition. This increased speed did not come at the expense of accuracy as both groups did not differ on this measure, indicating overall enhanced attentional control in VGPs

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what is cognitive control

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Cognitive control: set of neural processes that allow us to interact with our complex environment in a goal-direct manner

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what is multi-tasking

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Multi-tasking: attempt to accomplish simultaneous goals

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can video games keep at bay mental decline

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pps were much faster at working memory tasks in group that had signing and driving
better at sustained attention and impulsivity

Multitasking - both tasks together were as good at multitasking as people who were doing task for first time in their 20s
People who were also trained on single task were good but not as good people who did both tasks together

People who had no training remained without any improvements at all

This advantage was maintained 6 months after the training finished
60-85 year old

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what happened in the neuroracer eeg study

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After NeuroRacer training EEG pattern resembled those of 20-year-olds. The key change was in prefrontal cortex – suggesting improvement in executive functions

Measures of coherence were much better
– how well different brain areas communicate with each other

initial testing of eeg - coherence of frontal lobe
Older adults do not have a lot of theta coherence
But after multitasking training their theta coherence in the prefrontal cotex was as good as younger adults

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what did they find in neuroracer study

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But after multitasking training their theta coherence in the prefrontal cotex was as good as younger adults

After training especially after multitasking training the older adults had as good connections as the younger adults as well

improvements in executive functions

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what did neuroracer look at

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Looked at how different brain areas connect to each other
Younger brain - prefrontal brain very connected to the posterior parts of the brain and these connection are not so good in older brains

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why did they apply tDCS to the neuroracer study

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He saw in eeg the prefrontal areas were important so applied transcranial direct current stimulation while people were engaged in multitasking performance

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what did they do in the TDCS and neuroracer

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TDCS and Multitasking

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been proposed to play an important role in neural processes that underlie multitasking performance

Anodal tDCS or sham tDCS at 1.0 mA was applied over left DLPFC in healthy young adults immediately before they engaged in a 3-D video game designed to assess multitasking performance

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