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Ch3: The electrophysiological brain Flashcards

1
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The electrical activity (in terms of action potentials per second) of many individually recorded neurons recorded at one or more electrodes

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Multi-cell recordings (or multi-unit recordings)

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A hypothetical neuron that just responds to one particular stimulus

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Grandmother cell

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The informational content of a neuron may be related to the number of action potentials per second

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Rate coding

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4
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The synchrony of firing may be used by a population of neurons to code the same stimulus or event

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Temporal coding

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The study of the time course of information processing in the human nervous system

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Mental chronometry

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A pair of positive and negative electrical charges separated by a small distance

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Dipole

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A general method for dividing reaction times into different stages

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Additive factors method

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An ERP component (negative potential at 170 ms) linked to perceiving facial structure

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N170

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Reaction times are faster to stimulus X after being presented to stimulus Y if X and Y have previously been associated together (e.g. if they tend to co-occur)

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Associative priming

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Related to properties of the stimulus

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Exogenous

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Related to properties of the task

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Endogenous

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The difficulty of locating the sources of electrical activity from measurements taken at the scalp (in ERP research)

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Inverse problem

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An attempt to solve the inverse problem in ERP research that involves assuming how many dipoles (regions of electrical activity) contribute to the signal recorded at the scalp

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Dipole modeling

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14
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ERPs are constructed by averaging time-locked portions of which measure? A) PET B) TMS C) MEG D) EEG

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D) EEG

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Rather than relying on reaction times, lesion methods tend to rely on which of the following? A) Introspection B) Galvanic Skin Response C) Subjective Reports D) Error Rates

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D) Error Rates

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It is impossible to measure action potentials from a single neuron non-invasively at the scalp level largely because: A) Neurons do not produce electrical signals B) Neurons fire too rapidly C) The signal is too weak amidst the noise from other neurons D) Electrodes cannot be secured to one location on the scalp

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C) The signal is too weak amidst the noise from other neurons

17
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A hypothetical grandmother cell that responds to both the sight and voice of one’s grandmother would be called: A) Integrative B) Multi-modal C) Serial D) Parallel

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B) Multi-modal

18
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When all the information about a stimulus or event is carried in all the neurons of a given population, it is considered which type of representation? A) Fully distributed B) Sparse Local C) Local D) Sparse distributed

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A) Fully distributed

19
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Neurons representing information via greater synchronization of firing across different neurons for a given stimulus use what type of coding? A) Rate B) Temporal C) Gradient D) Gaze

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B) Temporal

20
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Axonal currents associated with the action potential are described as which type of current? A) Passive B) Latent C) Verbose D) Active

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D) Active

21
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In the 10–20 system of electrodes illustrated below, the circled electrode is called:
A) Cz
B) Pz
C) T3
D) F0

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C) T3

22
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In the image below, the arrow at the back of the head is called the:
A) Nasion
B) Mastoid
C) Sulcus
D) Inion

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​D) Inion

23
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In ERP parlance, “N400” means the:
A) 400th negative peak
B) The maximum spatial resolution at the N4 electrode
C) The negative peak at 400ms
D) The lowest acceptable impedance at the nasion

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C) The negative peak at 400ms

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Posner (1978) called ‘the study of the time-course of information processing in the human nervous system’ which of the following:
A) Causal modelling
B) Efficiency analysis
C) Temporal resolution assessment
D) Mental chronometry

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D) Mental chronometry

25
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Who developed the additive factors method for dividing reaction times into different stages?
A) Smith
B) Schacter
C) Sternberg
D) Ekstrand

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C) Sternberg

26
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It is thought that the digit probe task can be divided into a number of separate processing stages, which would be (in order):

A) Perception, encoding, execution
B) Encoding, comparing, decision, responding
C) Facilitation, inhibition, decision, execution
D) Comparing, deciding, encoding, responding

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B) Encoding, comparing, decision, responding

27
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The N170 is observed for which of the following presentations:
A) All of these conditions
B) Human faces
C) Animal faces
D) Cartoony faces

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A) All of these conditions

28
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Associative priming is what kind of measure?
A) Implicit
B) Topographic
C) Recollection
D) Explicit

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A) Implicit

29
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Evoked potentials depend on:
A) Physical properties of the stimulus
B) Properties of the task/goal
C) Expectation
D) Motivation

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A) Physical properties of the stimulus

30
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The most common way of trying to solve the inverse problem involves which procedure?
A) Fourier analysis
B) Dipole modelling
C) Bow-and-arrow diagramming
D) Logarithmic modeling

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B) Dipole modelling

31
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Which of the following is not a type of rhythmic oscillation in EEG?
A) Delta
B) Omega
C) Theta
D) Gamma

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B) Omega

32
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Which of the following is NOT true of the MEG technique?
A) It has millisecond temporal resolution
B) The signal is degraded by the presence of the skull and meninges
C) It is more sensitive to activity at sulci
D) It is poor at detecting deep diploes

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B) The signal is degraded by the presence of the skull and meninges

33
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A whole-head MEG contains 200–300 devices called:
A) Infrared sensors
B) Dipoles
C) SQUIDs
D) TNRs

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C) SQUIDs

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