Cooper Paper Flashcards
1
Q
What types of tasks were used to correlate grey matter with verbal working memory and what were the results?
A
Forward Digit Span and Story Recall - work with the phonological loop so they saw right cerebellar activation.
Backwards Digit Span and letter/number sequencing work with executive functioning pathways so they saw left cerebellar activation.
2
Q
What was the goal of the experiment?
A
Find correlation between cerebellar grey matter and verbal working memory in patients with SCA6.
3
Q
SCA6 specifically targets what cells?
A
Purkinje Cells of the Cerebellum.
