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Lecture 8- Attention And Cognitive Control Flashcards

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Cognitive load increases or reduces distractor processing

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Increases

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Perceptual load increases or reduces distractor processing

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Reduces

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Perceptual load increases or reduces inattentional blindness

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Increases

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Availability of perceptual capacity determines

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Whether distractors receive further processing

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Cognitive control required to

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Inhibit any distractors that make it to late selection

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Individuals with low working memory capacity show increased

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  • Response competition interference
  • Stroop interference
  • “Own name break-through” in dichotic listening
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Are individuals with better cognitive control less distracted?

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Yes

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Cognitive control deficits also implicated in relation to

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Clinical symptoms of inattention (e.g. ADHD, Anxiety)

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Patients with damage to which region show problems in attention and cognitive control

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Frontal/parietal regions

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Attention modulates neural activation related to

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Perception

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Frontal activation positively or negatively predicted behavioural interference

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Negatively

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Visual cortical response to cues location is

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Effect of attention

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People high in anxiety recruited

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  • Less DLPFC and ACC.

- Greater behavioural interference

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What is DLPFC

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Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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What is ACC

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Anterior Cingulate Cortex

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Frontal regions also activated during

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Sustained attention

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Mind wandering positively or negatively relates to external task-irrelevant distraction

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Positively

18
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Some frontal regions involved in both

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  • Attentional control.

- Generating task-unrelated thought

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High working memory capacity associated with increased or reduced mind-wandering during attentionally demanding tasks

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Reduced

20
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High working memory capacity associated with increased or reduced mind-wandering during low perceptual load response competition tasks

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Increased

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