Executive Control

Question 1

Cognitive Control/ Executive Function

Answer 1

processes that flexibly shape and constrain our thoughts, memories, and actions to allow us to accomplish our behavioral goals

Question 2

Putative Cog Control Functions

Answer 2

inhibition of prepotent responses
selection of target responses
retrieval of information from LTM
shift of attention
coordination of working memory

Question 3

Ventromedial PFC

Answer 3

selection and inhibition in social/emotional contexts

includes orbitofrontal cortex region

Question 4

Dorsolateral PFC

Answer 4

regulation of non-social cognitive functions

executive control of working memory

Question 5

PFC and cognitive control

Answer 5

Stimulus: phone rings
Response: answer phone

learning linkage of context and different steps leading to answering the phone, depending on if you’re at your own home or a guest in someone else’s home

bursts of dopamine helps PFC learn connections

learning through feedback in different contexts between different elements

Question 6

PFC switchboard

Answer 6

things we do a lot need less cognitive control and becomes more automatic

if PFC does not work, you do things with less cognitive control, and more inappropriately

Question 7

Stroop Test

Answer 7

overriding competition from automatically retrieved information

PFC modulates activity in processing stream to inhibit wrong response

Question 8

anterior cingulate cortex and cognitive conflict

Answer 8

error commission, error related negativity

undetermined responding, stem completion, verb generation