Lecture 8- Attention And Cognitive Control

Question 1

Cognitive load increases or reduces distractor processing

Answer 1

Increases

Question 2

Perceptual load increases or reduces distractor processing

Answer 2

Reduces

Question 3

Perceptual load increases or reduces inattentional blindness

Answer 3

Increases

Question 4

Availability of perceptual capacity determines

Answer 4

Whether distractors receive further processing

Question 5

Cognitive control required to

Answer 5

Inhibit any distractors that make it to late selection

Question 6

Individuals with low working memory capacity show increased

Answer 6

• Response competition interference
• Stroop interference
• “Own name break-through” in dichotic listening

Question 7

Are individuals with better cognitive control less distracted?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

Cognitive control deficits also implicated in relation to

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Frontal/parietal regions

Question 10

Attention modulates neural activation related to

Answer 10

Perception

Question 11

Frontal activation positively or negatively predicted behavioural interference

Answer 11

Negatively

Question 12

Visual cortical response to cues location is

Answer 12

Effect of attention

Question 13

People high in anxiety recruited

Answer 13

• Less DLPFC and ACC.

- Greater behavioural interference

Question 14

What is DLPFC

Answer 14

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 15

What is ACC

Answer 15

Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Question 16

Frontal regions also activated during

Answer 16

Sustained attention

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Positively

Question 18

Some frontal regions involved in both

Answer 18

• Attentional control.

- Generating task-unrelated thought

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Reduced

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Increased