EEG and Symmetry Flashcards

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Who invented EEG and when?

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Hans Berger in 1929

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What is current?

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the flow of charged particles
represented by symbol I

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What is voltage?

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the potential for current to flow from one place to another
represented by symbol V

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What does EEG measure?

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measures voltage between active electrode and a reference electrode

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5
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What is the temporal resolution like in an EEG?

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good

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6
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What is the spatial resolution like in an EEG?

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poor

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What is an event related potential (Luck, 2005)?

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the signal you get from an EEG
electrophysiological markers of a discrete cognitive or perceptual event in the brain

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What does error related negativity mean?

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happens on trials which have made an error

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9
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Who made claims on the extrastriate cortex and symmetry?

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Sasaki et al (2005)

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What is the network involved in symmetry?

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a network of symmetry sensitive brain areas in extrastriate cortex

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What area is not sensitive to symmetry?

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the striate cortex (V1)
only areas higher in visual hierarchy are sensitive to symmetry (extrastriate cortex)

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What does the network in the extrastriate cortex do in symmetry?

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the network responds to symmetry automatically, even when people aren’t attending to it
sometimes can go beyond this and recover symmetry in an object

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What does the network generate?

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the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN)

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What is the SPN?

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an event related potential (ERP) that measures brain response to symmetry

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15
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What does the network respond to?

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symmetry and anti-symmetry

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16
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What is the symmetry network indifferent to?

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colour
could paint a symmetrical image in different colours but response is always the same

17
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What does perceptual goodness mean?

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the perceptual strength or salience of a configuration
W-load is a measure of perceptual goodness that varies from 0 to 1

18
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Makin et al (2015), symmetry responses are…

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symmetry responses are view invariant when people attend to symmetry

19
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What does view invariance mean?

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the ability of humans to easily recognise objects when seen from different viewpoints
meaning ppts can spot symmetry even from diff angles

20
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How does the network code symmetry in each hemisphere?

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the network canoed symmetry independently in each hemisphere
due to the brain having a crossover design

21
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What is the contralateral SPN?

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in the back of the head and on the opposite side to the where the symmetry is shown
it’s the same whether people attend other symmetry or random

22
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What does fMRI tell us?

A

which brain areas respond to symmetry and generate SPN

23
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How can symmetry response increase?

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through repeated presentation
(SPN priming)

24
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What is meant by habituation?

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decrease in a person’s response to stimuli after repeated exposure

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What is meant by priming?
exposure to one stimulus influences how someone perceives a subsequent stimulus
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How can you learn a lot from symmetry perception?
by pooling data from all experiments into a big catalogue
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When is symmetry processing enhanced?
during active regularity discrimination tasks
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Is the brain's response to symmetry left lateralised or right lateralised?
right lateralised
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What blocks symmetry processing?
seeing negative superimposed words
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What can activate the extrastriate symmetry network?
hallucinogenic drugs