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Cognitive Control Flashcards

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Executive Function

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Another term for cognitive control.

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The Prefrontal Cortex has 4 major components?

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The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
The Frontal Pole
The Orbitofrontal Cortex
The Medial Frontal Cortex.

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Two Prefrontal Control Systems

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Goal Oriented Behaviour - Includes the LPFC, OFC and FP.

Its involved with planning, simulating consequences and intiating, inhibiting and shifting behaviours.

Guiding and Monitoring Behaviour - Includes the MFC. It monitors ongoing activity to module the amount of cognitive control needed to keep behaviour on track for current goals

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Perseveration

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A patient persisting in a response after being told it is incorrect

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Damage to the frontal lobe can lead to

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Social complications, impulsive, apathetic, distractible

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Utilisation Behaviour

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A dependency on prototypical responses for guiding behaviour, such as seeing a hammer and nail and automatically start to use them.

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Goal Oriented Behaviour

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Actions based on the assessment of an expected reward or value and the knowledge there is a relationship between the action and the reward

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Habit

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Habit driven actions occur in the presence of specific stimuli that trigger the retrieval of well-learned associations.

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What memory is the PFC necessary for?

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Working memory, so it can be acted on with goal oriented behaviour e.g.

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Cells in the LPFC exhibit…

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task-specific selectivity. It is critical for working memory by sustaining a representation of the task goal and working with the inferior cortex to sustain information.

It keeps information active so it can be acted on

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What is the n-task?

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Investigates the manipulation of working memory. Activiation in the LPFC increases as the difficulty of the task increases.

In the task it shows a continuous stream of stimuli and people have to push a button when a repeated stimulus is shown.

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What three axes is PFC function along?

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Ventral Dorsal

Anterior Posterior

Lateral-Medial

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Ventral Dorsal Axis in PFC

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It is organised in terms of maintenance and manipulation

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Anterior Posterior Axis in PFC

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The more abstract representation engages the more anterior regions (frontal pole)

The less less abstract engage more posterior regions of the frontal lobes.

The most posterior part of the frontal lobe, the primary motor cortex, the place where abstract intentions become concrete movement

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Lateral Medial Axis

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Is related to the degree to which working memory is influenced by info in the environment (more lateral) or information about personal history and emotional states (more medial)

More lateral regions integrate external information where more medial regions allow info relatioed to motivation and potential reward to influence goal-oriented behaviour.

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Normative Decision theories

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How people should make decisions

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Descriptive Decision Theories

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How people do make decisions

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Action Outcome Decisions

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The decision involves some form of evaluation of the expected outcome. If we repeat the action and if is consistent it becomes habitual and turns into a stimulus response decision

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Model based decisions

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The agent has an internal representation of some aspect of the world , such as having an internal map of the world so they can take a different route if they need

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Model Free

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Kinda like stimulus response where you have just an input and then an output.

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Primary Reinforcers

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Have a direct benefit for our survival, sex water

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Secondary Reinforcers

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Money and status have no intrinsic value but are rewarding through their association with other forms of reinforcement

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Temporal Discounting

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The value of a reward is reduced when we have to wait to receive that reward

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Temporal Discounting

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The value of a reward is reduced when we have to wait to receive that rewardDa

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Damage to what region, messed with Temporal discounting?

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Damage to the OFC

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DeMore lateral regions of the PFC are important for..

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Some form of modulatory control of these representations or the actions associated with them

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Decision Variable

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A representation that specifies the current value of leaving a patch for an unknown area!

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What area plays an important role for foraging like decisions

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The ACC.

The BOLD responses in ACC has a positive correlation with the explore value

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What neurotransmitter is important for temporal discounting?

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Serotonin

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Dopaminergic Cells are scattered ___

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throughout the midbrain

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Two primary loci of dopaminergic neurons are two

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Brainstem Nuclei

The substantia nigra pars compact (SNc)

The ventral tegmental area (VTA)

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Neurons from the substantia nigra project

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to the dorsal striatum

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Neurons from the ventral tegmental area project through which two pathways?

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The mesolimbic pathway travels to important areas of emotional processing

Mesocoritcal pathway travels to the neocortex

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Activation of dopaminergic neurons is tied to

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The expectancy of reward not just reward, the activity of these neurons is much higher when the reward is unexpected

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Punishments and Rewards are similar in the fact ____

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They are both motivationally salient, they draw our attention and control processes to influence behaviour

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Habenula

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A structure within the dorsal thalamus that plays a role in reward and dopamine systems

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RPE

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Reward Prediction Error, the difference between the expected reward and what is actually obtained. It is used as a learning signal to update value information as expectancies and valance of rewards change

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Selection

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The ability to focus attention on perceptual features or information in memory

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Dynamic Filterin

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is conceptualised to happen in the PFC. Filters information to retrieve and select the information that is relevant to the current task requirements (for example when explaining about a trip to san fransisco, you remeber the bridge, but to remeber the colour of it you need to filter information to access it).

Damage to the PFC leads patients to having difficulty maintaing their focus on a goal

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How do we multitask?

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We become proficient in switching from one task to another which has more evidence than saying we learn to segregate the tasks and doing them at the same time.

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Patients with damage to the LPFC are better than typical people at ___

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Solving difficult problems with atypical answers, allowing them to think outside the box a bit more

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TMS over inferior frontal cortex does what?

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Directly disrupts goal-based selection

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TMS over the dorsal frontal cortex

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Produces an indirect benefit in goal based selection 9

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Patients with damage to ____ are slow to abort a planned response

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Lesions to the frontal lobe (Inferior frontal gyrus on the right side)

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The ___ is crucial for the monitoring system

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ACC in the MFC. The MFC is consistently engaged whenever a task becomes more difficult, the type of situation when monitoring demands are likely to be high

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Attentional Hierarchy Hypothesis

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A higher rung on the ladder of attention, like the top dawg

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Error Detection Hypothesis

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Comes from evidence implicating the MFC in the detection of errors

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ERN

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Error Related Negativity. Physiological responses such as the ERN can reactivate the goal in someones mind

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Response Conlifct Theory

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Difficulty and novel situations should engender high response conflict.

The MFC is engaged by monitoring demands, not by the occurence of an error

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