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Matt Roser L3 Flashcards

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What is attention?

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The preferential treatment/selection of a subset of that information

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Broadbent’s model (1958)?

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Selective attention - top-down selection of relevant inputs at an early stage of processing

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What study looks at attention in space and its evidence for early selective attenuation?

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Posner’s cueing paradigm

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In Posner’s cueing paradigm, what does it suggest when the valid condition showed quicker RTs?

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It suggests that stimuli presented were preferentially processed

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What is ERP?

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Event-related potentials - recordings of brain activity that are linked to the occurrence of an event; derived from an EEG

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What happens to attention when shown central, symbolic cues? Validity effects?

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It evokes voluntary shifts in attention - validity effects show up with long SOAs

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What is SOA and what does it mean?

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Stimulus onset asynchronies - the delay between the presentation of the cue and the presentation of the target

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What happens to attention when shown peripheral, non-symbolic cues? Validity effects?

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It evokes reflexive shifts in attention - validity effects show up with short SOAs.

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How are targets with single features identified?

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preattentively

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How are targets defined by feature conjunctions identified?

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serial attention

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What is a strategy used to increase the efficiency of serial visual search?

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Guided visual search - restriction to subsets

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Hemispatial neglect (damage + impact)

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right parietal damage - manifests as neglect of contralesional space (usually left side) - also deficit is present in visual memories (egocentric reference frame).

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Attention selects information for preferential processing in a number of ways (3):

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spatial location, item attributes and objects

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what type of process is attention?

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It is a modulatory process, it influences the processing of distinct brain modules, ramping up activity when processing information is attentionally relevant

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What do FMRI studies tell us about attention in the brain?

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Multiple regions are activated and linked via reciprocal connections through the thalamus

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What might attention lead to prior to stimulus input?

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Synchronisation of neural firing

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What is top-down modulation?

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The ability to focus attention on task-relevant stimuli and ignore irrelevant distractions

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What are the 3 main attentional networks in the brain?

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Alerting (high state of sensitivity), orienting (source of sensory signal) and executive (goals)

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What do executive functions do? (2)

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Give organisation and order to our actions and behaviour, govern a number of domains (cognitive, linguistic and motor)

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Examples of executive functions (5):

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representing/maintaining goals, planning for the future, inhibiting/delaying responding, initiating behaviour & shifting between activities flexibly.

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3 characteristics of PFC neuroanatomy

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Late phylogenesis (evolutionary system), Late ontogenesis (developmental history) and Highly interconnected with virtually all brain areas

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What do dorsolateral lesions lead to?

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frontal executive syndrome

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What can ventromedial damage lead to?

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Problems with emotional control

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Problems associated with frontal executive damage

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problems in planning, difficulties adapting to new situations and withdrawal from social situations

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What part of the brain, if damaged, sees dramatic impacts on working memory? What is the impact on rules?

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Dorsolateral Prefrontal cortex - unable to flexibly attend to a change in sorting rules due to impacts to working memory

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Goal setting and patients with frontal brain damage:

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Fixation on a less important sub-goal without consideration of other goals, often leading to failure of the overarching goal

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Working memory impact on goals

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WM allows information to be selected, maintained and manipulated to support coherent goal-directed behaviour

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How are interactions between frontally-mediated WM systems and posterior processing areas governed?

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As task difficulty increases the anterior cingulate gyrus becomes increasingly active

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What does the anterior cingulate do?

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It monitors environment, one’s behaviour and the relationship between the two

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How does the anterior cingulate keep behaviour on track?

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Environment/behaviour relationships are thought to be encoded as schemata, providing a top-down influence on the schema that is applied to a situation

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What does the anterior cingulate do when an error has been made?

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It sends a signal called Error-Related Negativity (ERN)

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How does the anterior cingulate avoid errors?

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It works hard when doing tasks, for example, Stroop tasks, and works to inhibit habitual responses

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What is a neural substrate?

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A term to indicate a certain part of the nervous system responsible for a certain behaviour, cognitive process or psychological state

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What is Domasio’s somatic marker hypothesis?

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Bodily sensations (e.g. emotions) act as a heuristic guide to making decisions

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Which cortex is involved in emotional processing?

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The ventromedial cortex

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Lesions to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex often result in (6):

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  • Reduced inhibition of effect (Rude/hostile)
  • Deficits in reversal learning
  • Myopia (impulsivity) - respond to momentary hedonic tendencies
  • Impaired reward expectation
  • Impaired long-term planning
  • Impaired at maintaining healthy social/professional life
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What are hedonistic tendencies?

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Consumption of goods and services to seek satisfaction and pleasure

38
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Posterior to anterior gradient of control who and what are the levels (4):

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Koechlin & Summerfield 2007
The selection of processing is based on sensory information, contextual information, current episode and finally context of prior episodes or events (Branching -> episodic -> contextual -> sensory)

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Posterior to anterior gradient of control by abstraction - who and explain?

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Badre 2008
Posterior regions of the prefrontal cortex implement control on the basis of more concrete dimensions which become more abstract as one moves in the anterior direction (context -> dimension -> feature ->response conflict)

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What is the positioning of the subregion on the PFC that deals with inhibition?

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Ventral

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What is the positioning of the subregion on the PFC that deals with maintenance and manipulation

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Lateral

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Attention to a particular class of objects may manifest in an fMRI study as:

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Increased or decreased activity in separate ventro-temporal brain areas when contrasting object class conditions

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