Midterm 3: Long-term memory, Language, Decision Making Flashcards

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What is encoding?

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Initial creation of memory traces in brain from incoming information

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What is consolidation?

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Continued organization and stabilization of memory traces over time

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What is (memory) storage?

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Retention of memory traces over time

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What is (memory) retrieval?

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Accessing/using stored information from memory traces

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What is reconsolidation?

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The possible reorganization and restabilization of memory traces after retrieval

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Explain the difference between consolidation and reconsolidation

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Consolidation is the continued organization of memory traces over time, whereas reconsolidation is the reorganization of memory traces after retrieval

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Learning= ____

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Memory

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Memory involves multiple: (4 points)

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Processes
Types
Systems
Tasks

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Memory requires ____ change in nervous system

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Physical

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Memory is ____ in nervous system

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Pervasive (widespread/ permeates completely)

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What parts of the brain are involved in declarative (explicit) memory? (3 parts)

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Medial temporal lobe
Middle diencephalon
Neocortex

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What parts of the brain are involved in nondeclarative (implicit) memory? (6 parts)

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Basal ganglia
Skeletal muscle
Perceptual neocortex
Association neocortex
Cerebellum
Reflex pathways

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Are long and short-term memory considered different systems?

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Yes, they generally involve different mechanisms… but there is more to it

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What is it called when one of the memory systems is impaired and one is spared?

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Single dissociation

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What is dissociation?

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Performance differs across two tasks

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Does a single dissociation demonstrate separable systems? Different brain regions? Distinct cognitive processes?

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Not necessarily

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What happens if two patterns flipped? Both systems impaired

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Double dissociation

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Does a double dissociation demonstrate separable systems? Different brain regions? Distinct cognitive processes?

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Probably… it is strong evidence that they rely on different brain mechanisms

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Is this an example of a short or long-term memory task?

Memory span
Hear three words :”time base offer”
Immediately recall in same order: “time base offer”

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Short-term memory

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Is this an example of a short or long-term memory task?

List learning
Hear ten words: “hand cook laugh…”
Immediately recall in any order: “cook train hand…”
Repeat until all 10 recalled in any order

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Long-term memory

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How would damage to the left temporoparietal cortex affect memory span and list learning in comparison to a control group? (using dissociation hypotheses)

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Decreased memory span (short-term memory)

No damage in list learning (long-term memory)

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What are two alternative explanations in explaining the relationship between LTM and STM (other than dissociation hypotheses)

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Partial damage argument
Compensation argument

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Explain the Partial Damage Argument (3 points)

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Perhaps there is one system for both LTM and STM
But there STM task is harder than the LTM task
So, when this system is partially damaged, the STM task suffers more than the LTM task

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Explain the Compensation Argument (3 points)

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Perhaps there is one system for both LTM and STM
But the STM task is harder than the LTM task
So, when this system is completely damaged, the brain can compensate for the LTM task but not the STM task

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How would damage to the bilateral medial temporal lobes affect memory span and list learning in comparison to a control group? (using dissociation hypotheses)
Memory span (short-term memory) is not affected List learning (long-term memory) is decreased
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Which pattern in a memory span vs. list learning task cannot be explained by the alternative explanations? What does this pattern suggest?
When there are two areas of damage and two opposing single dissications! Suggests that short-term and long-term memory are separable systems
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In short-term memory, what is the timescale? Capacity? Neural basis?
Timescale: Seconds Capacity: Extremely limited Neural basis: Sustained activation of neurons
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In long-term memory, what is the timescale? Capacity? Neural basis?
Timescle: Minutes, hours, days Capacity: Massive Neural basis: number and strength of synapses
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Is this an example of an implicit or explicit memory task? Perceptual identification Study phase: 24 words presented for 2 seconds each Test phase: 24 studied and 24 new words flashed extremely briefly (priming effect) Identify word
Implicit memory task
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Is this an example of an implicit or explicit memory task? Word recognition Study phase: 24 words presented for 2 seconds each Test phase: 24 studied and 24 new words presented until response Respond "yes" or "no" if words are from study phase
Explicit memory task
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What is the effect on implicit and explicit memory when there is damage to the right occipital lobe?
Shows typical word recognition (explicit memory) Shows impairment in perceptual identification (implicit memory), and does not show the priming effect
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In amnesia patients (Korsokoff's syndrome and epilepsy) what is the effect on word recognition and priming effect? (specifically when talking about single dissociation)
Larger than typical priming effect Impaired word recognition (explicit memory)
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In amnesia patients (Korsokoff's syndrome and epilepsy) what is the effect on word recognition and priming effect? (specifically when talking about double dissociation/ two different areas of damage)
Two opposing single dissociations Shows decreased word recognition Shows increased perceptual identification
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What is implicit memory (non-associative)?
A change in the strength of a response to a single stimulus due to repeated exposure to that stimulus
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What type of memory is consistent with these qualities? Non-declarative Independent of conscious awareness Procedural, conditioning, nonassociative, or priming Timescale: minutes, hours, days, years Capacity: massive
Implicit long-term memory
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What type of memory is consistent with these qualities? Declarative Available to conscious awareness Available to conscious awareness Semantic/episodic Timescale: minutes, hours, days, years Capacity: massive
Explicit long-term memory
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Non-associative learning involves ____-____ pathways
Sensory-motor
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What is non-associative learning?
A stimulus does not change but your response to it changes over time
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What is habituation?
A reduced response to a repeated stimulus over time
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What is sensitization?
An increased response to a repeated stimulus
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What was the first evidence of the neural basis of non-associative memory?
Studied in sea slug Aplysia Studied by Eric Kandel: 2000 Nobel Prize in Psychology or Medicine
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Habituation --> ___-___ depression
Pre-synaptic
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What does habituation mean for neuronal firing? (3 points) Hint: think action potentials
Same action potential Reduced neurotransmitter release Smaller EPSP
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Sensitization --> ___-___ facilitation
Pre-synaptic
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What does sensitization mean for neuronal firing? (3 points) Hint: think action potentials
Same action potential Increased neurotransmitter release Larger EPSP
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Does short-term habituation/sensitization equate to short-term memory?
No
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How are EPSPs to tone affected in fear consitioning?
EPSP to tone increase lateral nucleus of amygdala after repeated pairing with shock
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In fear conditioning, where in the brain do the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus converge?
Lateral nucleus of amygdala
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What is classical conditioning?
Unconscious process where an automatic, conditioned response becomes associated with a specific stimulus
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Is motor skill learning motor system dependent?
Yes
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What kind of loops are used in motor adaptation?
Cerebellar loops
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What kind of loops are used in motor sequence learning?
Cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical loops
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Patients with cerebellar lesions fail to adapt, what kind of adaptation do they fail?
Motor adaptation
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The cerebellum uses a ____ model to predict results of motor commands
Forward model
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What does the cerebellum use differences between actual and predicted results for? (2 points)
Online error correction Motor learning
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Motor sequence learning depends on ____ ____ and ____ learning
Basal ganglia Reinforcement learning
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Dopamine signal from ____ ____ ____ ____ represents prediction error (brain part)
Substantia nigra pars compacta
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What is this an example of? Unexpected rewards generate dopamine signals from the substantia nigra pars compacta This excites the direct pathway and inhibits the indirect pathway Allows for modification of behavior based on reward
Reinforcement learning
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Are classical conditioning and reinforcement learning the same?
No, classical conditioning focuses on involuntary responses to stimuli, reinforcement learning focuses on learning behavior through rewards/punishments
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What is priming?
Change in stimulus processing due to prior exposure to same/related stimulus without conscious awareness
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What kind of priming can be seen in Warrington and Weiskrantz study on Korsakoff's syndrome (amnesia from alcoholism) patients?
Perceptual priming
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What is Korsakoff's syndrome?
Amnesia due to severe alcoholism
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What kind of priming can be seen in Rossell, Price, & Nobre's study?
Semantic priming
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What is semantic priming?
Processing of one stimulus influences the processing of a subsequent stimulus
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What is perceptual priming?
Prior exposure to a stimulus enhances the speed/accuracy of identifying a similar stimulus later, even if the person doesn't consciously remember seeing the first stimulus
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Explain the neural basis of priming
Change in stimulus processing due to prior exposure to same/related stimulus without conscious awareness
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What does the neural basis of priming depend on?
Region of cortex processing relevant representations
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What parts of the brain does perceptual priming depend on?
Sensory cortices (e.g. occipital lobe for vision)
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What parts of the brain does conceptual/semantic priming depend on?
Unimodal/Multimodal association cortices (e.g. anterior temporal, inferior parietal, prefrontal cortex)
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Memory for ____ word meaning activates areas of cortex involved in relevant processing
Concrete
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Motor cortex/somatosensory cortex is responsible for what?
Actions
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Auditory cortex is responsible for what?
Sound
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Occipital/temporal cortex (ventral visual stream) is responsible for what?
Colors and movements
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Which theory does this represent? Organization of semantic representations is based on relevant sensory and motor features e.g. action words activate region of primary motor cortex for specific body part
Sensory/functional theory
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Which theory does this represent? Organizations of semantic representations is based on semantic categories
Domain-specific theory
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How are meanings organized in the brain? (which 2 theories)
Sensory/Functional Theory Domain-Specific Theory
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What do "tools" do in Sensory/Functional and Domain-Specific Theory?
Activate regions tied to actions (e.g. premotor cortex)
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What do "animals" do in Sensory/Functional and Domain-Specific Theory?
Activate regions tied to visual/perceptual features (e.g. posterior temporal lobe; ventral visual stream)
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Is meaning categorial?
Partially (tools vs. animals)
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Meaning depends on ____ sensory and ____ features
Shared; Functional
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What kind of memories do we often start with? What are they later converted to?
Episodic; semantic
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What part of the brain form indices to bind cortical representations? And in what stage of episodic memory is this?
Hippocampus (and related structures) Encoding of episodic memory
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What part of the brain use indices to reinstantiate cortical representations? And in what stage of episodic memory is this?
Hippocampus (and related structures) Retrieval of episodic memory
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Which part of the brain is responsible for encoding spatial layout and visuospatial memory (Hint: Cortex)
Parahippocampal cortex
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Which part of the brain is responsible for object recognition/familiarity and binding features to objects? (Hint: Cortex)
Perirhinal cortex
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Which part of the brain is responsible for integrative function for input/output to hippocampus? (Hint: cortex)
Entorhinal cortex
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Which part of the brain is responsible for formation and consolidation of memory and spatial navigation?
Hippocampus
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Which part of the brain is the pathway from hippocampus to other cortical/subcortical structures?
Fornix
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What is the general name for all of these structures? (Hint: lobe) Parahippocampal cortex Perirhinal cortex Entorhinal cortex Hippocampus Fornix
Medial temporal lobes
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How does severe anterograde amnesia affect LTMs?
Unable to form new LTMs after surgery
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How does temporarily-graded retrograde amnesia affect LTMs?
Unable to recall existing LTMs from just before the surgery
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What is the cognitive map theory?
Memory for spatial relationships in environment
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What kind of cells have these qualities? Fire when you're in a specific location Form an internal "map" of your environment Helps bind where and when events happen
Place cells
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What is the rational memory theory?
Memory for associations in general
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What does a lesion to the fornix do? (2 points)
Leaves single pairs intact Disrupts relationships across pairs
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Describe Hebbian learning (2 points)
"Neurons that fire together wire together" When presynaptic action potential leads to postsynaptic action potential, connection is strengthened
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Fill in the blanks regarding Long-term potentiation: ____ in synaptic strength ____ necessary properties for Hebbian learning Found in ____ (and other brain regions)
Increase Exhibits Hippocampus
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What is wrong with learning based solely on long-term potentiation?
If synapses only strengthen, neural firing will grow out of control
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Fill in the blanks regarding Early Long-term Potentiation: ____ presynaptic release of neurotransmitter ____number of postsynaptic receptors
Increased Increase
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Fill in the blanks regarding Late Long-term Potentiation: ____ number of dendritic spines and synapses
Increased
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What is the phrase associated with Long-term depression (LTD)?
"Neurons that fire apart wire apart"
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In Long-term depression: When presynaptic action potential does NOT lead to postsynaptic action potential, how is the connection affected?
Connection is weakened
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In Long-term depression, how are neurotransmitters affected? Number of receptors? Number of synapses?
They are all reduced
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Retrieval of episodic memories is ____
Reconstructive
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A "best guess" is based on what 5 things?
Memory trace Genes Past experience Internal state Environmental context
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Who created the DRM paradigm?
Deese (1959), Roediger & McDermott (1995)
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What is the DRM paradigm?
Activity used to study false memory, where participants are presented with lists of related words, and then falsely recall/recognize a non-presented, semantically related word
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What 5 things can make episodic retrieval inaccurate?
Semantic experience Cultural experience Source misattributions Pragmatic inferences Misleading post-event information
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Which memory system has these qualities? Learns rapidly Creates distinct memories for each event/instance More important for episodic memories
Hippocampus
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Which memory system has these qualities? Learns slowly Extracts generalities across events/instances More important for semantic memories
Cortex
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Do we need both memory systems? (Hippocampus & Cortex)
Yes!!
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What is the distinction "new" vs "old" or "episodic" vs "semantic"
Consolidation
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When a memory is retrieved, reinformed, and is once again subject to interference. What is this process called?
Reconsolidation
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A systematic means of communicating information using conventionalized sounds, gestures, marks, or signals having understood meanings
Language
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What is the function of human language?
Influence people's behavior by changing what they know, think, believe, or desire
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Fill in the blanks: ____ information quickly Facilitates an ____ social network ____ knowledge outside individuals Allows wisdom to ____ over generations ____ to any time/place, real/imaginary Enables creative expression due to ____ and ____
Communicates Interactive Stores Accrue Refers Generativity; Compositionality
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Put these in order of highest to lowest (regarding hierarchical organization) Word Phoneme Phrase Sentence Morpheme
Sentence Phrase Word Morpheme Phoneme
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What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit of perceived speech
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What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit that signals meaning
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What is a word?
The smallest stand-alone units of meaning
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What is a phrase?
Organized grouping of one/more words
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What is a sentence?
A set of words/phrases that tells a complete thought
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Who is associated with generativity of language?
Noam Chomsky
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What is generativity of language? (3 points)
We combine words in novel ways to express novel ideas Thus, language learning cannot be based solely on imitation, association, and reinforcement We must learn a set of rules that can be applied in a generative way
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According to Chomsky, language must be determine by an inborn ____ ____
Biological program
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What is the term for rules for combining words into phrases into sentences
Syntax
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Term for how meaning is derived from morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences
Semantics
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Term for rules for combining morphemes into words
Morphology
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Is this sentence grammatical? How about meaningful? "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
Grammatical, but meaningless
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Is this sentence grammatical? How about meaningful? "Furiously sleep ideas green colorless"
Ungrammatical and meaningless
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Is this sentence grammatical? How about meaningful? "Colorful green ants crawl furiously"
Grammatical and meaningful
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Is this sentence grammatical? How about meaningful? "Colorful green ants crawls furiously"
Ungrammatical, but meaningful
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What is the term for rules that specify what orders and combinations these roles can occur in
Generative grammar
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How do we figure out the meaning of a sentence?
By looking at the underlying phrase structure of sentences
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What is surface structure?
Phrase structure that applies to order in which words are actually spoken
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What is deep structure?
Fundamental, underlying phrase structure that conveys meaning
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What is transformational grammar?
Rules that transform deep structure into the varied sentences we actually speak/write (surface structure)
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What is the term for examples of language with multiple interpretations?
Ambiguity
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Like illusions for perceptions, ____ can provide insight into cognitive processing of language
Ambiguity
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What is lexical ambiguity
When a word has more than one meaning
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What is syntactic ambiguity
The sentence structure allows for more than one possible interpretation
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What is referential ambiguity?
When it is unclear what a pronoun/phrase refers to
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What portion of the brain does speech production depend on?
Pre-frontal areas
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Where is Broca's area (in most individuals)?
Left hemishphere
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Speech production is fundamentally a ____ act dependent on ____ planning
Motor; Hierarchical
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What condition does this represent? Speech is labored, slow & nonfluent with awkward articulation Phonemic errors (e.g. pensil for pencil) Written output shows same errors as speech Better fluency for memorized phrases Singing may be more fluent than speech Comprehension is relatively spared Problems with language planning and production Greatest difficulty with verbs, articles, pronouns No verb inflection Responses make sense but are ungrammatical Poor syntax comprehension Problems with understanding/using syntax
Broca's Aphasia
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Where is Wernicke's area located (in most individuals)?
Left hemisphere
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Speech comprehension depends on the ___ stream
Ventral "what"
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Speech comprehension is fundamentally a ____ process
Perceptual
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What condition is this? Speech is phonetically & grammatically normal but meaningless Generally fluent, unlabored, well articulated Normal intonation (prosody) Words used inappropriately, nonsense words, "word salad" Meaning expressed in roundabout way (cirumlocution) Problems translating auditory input into phonological forms that can then access semantics Problems with language comprehension Problems with understanding and using semantics
Wernicke's Aphasia
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What is Broca's area responsible for?
Language production and syntax
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What is Wernicke's area responsible for?
Language comprehension and semantics
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Which hemisphere is responsible for mental rotation, emotion perception, music and melodies, and detecting prosody in language?
Right hemisphere
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In which study is the corpus callosum severed so each hemisphere act somewhat independently
Split Brain Studies
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How is naming objects affected in split brain studies?
Left hemisphere can name objects Right hemisphere cannot
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Can split brain patients perform two different tasks simultaneously?
Yes!
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When (in split brain studies) can patients verbally describe a stimulus presented to the right visual field BUT cannot describe a stimulus presented to the left visual field, but the can identify it by touch?
When language is left-lateralized
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What is aprosodia?
Difficulty in processing prosody
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What condition is this? Difficulty detecting/understanding emotional tone in speech Associated with damage to right hemisphere Wernicke's equivalent
Receptive aprosodia
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What is prosody?
Patterns of rhythm, sound, stress, and intonation in language
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What is the interactive language network?
Brain regions and processes involved in understanding and using language
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What is the Interactive Activation Theory? Who created it?
Model of letter and word perception McClelland and Rumelhart
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What is the McGurk effect?
Misinterpretation due to conflicting stimuli
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What is a garden path sentence?
Sentences that are grammatically correct that initially lead the reader to a misleading interpretation, causing them to re-read the sentence
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What does fMRI measure?
Changes in magnetization, using electromagnetic radiation and nuclear magnetic resonance
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What is the 4 step process in fMRI?
Neural activity --> Increased blood flow --> Change in magnetic field --> fMRI BOLD signal
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fMRI has very good ____ resolution and OK ____ resolution
Spatial; Temporal
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What is the magnetic field in fMRI? (answer with a range of numbers)
1-5 Tesla
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Who studied if words with related meanings represented in nearby parts of the brain? If so, to what extent? And what does that tell us about how meaning is organized in the brain?
Mitchell et al., (2008)
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What were the major conclusions of the 2008 Mitchell et al. study?
Concepts are represented by highly distributed patterns of activation across the brain Perceptual and motor brain areas involved in representing meaning The association between concepts can be used to predict brain activation for those concepts
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What kind of approach does this sentence represent? "How should people decide?"
Prescriptive approach
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What is the term for the average outcome if a scenario is repeated many times?
Expected Value (EV)
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How is the expected value calculated?
Using probabilities and values of possible outcomes e.g. Gambling 75% chance of winning $200 25% chance of winning $0 EV= (0.75x$200)+(0.25x$0)= $150
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How can you maximize the average outcome?
By choosing the option with the greatest expected value
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What are two disadvantages of problems using the expected value?
Difficult to apply for non-monetary decisions Doesn't explain actual choices by actual people
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What are three advantages for using the expected value?
Clear prescription for "correct" choices Leads people to maximize monetary gains given what they know about the world Keeps people's decisions internally consistent
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What kind of approach does this sentence represent? "How do people decide?"
Descriptive approach
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Which theory aligns with these statements? "People do not make decisions based on expected values, probabilities, and absolute outcomes" "People make decisions based on subjective utility, decision weights, and relative outcomes"
Prospect theory
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What is utility?
Usefulness/ desirability of an outcome
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What is subjective utility?
People transform objective value into subjective utility
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Subjective utility ____ more slowly than objective value, especially at large values
Increases
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$10 (is/is not) subjectively worth twice as much as $5, but $10,000,000 (is/is not) subjectively worth twice as much as $5,000,000
is; is not
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What is loss aversion?
People feel the pain of a loss more strongly than the pleasure of an equivalent gain, leading them to prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gain
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What is the decision weight?
When people transform objective probability into subjective decision weights
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Small probabilities tend to be (over/under) weighted
Over
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Large probabilities tend to be (over/under) weighted
Under
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Which theory matches these statements? "People make decisions based on gains and losses relative to a point of reference, not based on absolute outcomes" "Changing the way a question is asked to create a different point of reference leads to different valuations and thus different choices"
Framing effect
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People perform actions in the world and experience the resulting outcomes as good (reward) or bad (lack of reward or punishment) What kind of learning is this?
Reinforcement learning
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What was the old idea about dopamine and rewards?
Midbrain dopamine system signals pleasure/reward
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Who performed the experiment using singly unit recordings from monkey's midbrain dopamine neurons in ventral tegmental area?
Schultz, Dayan, & Montague (1997)
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In the task where monkeys must touch the lever when light appears to receive drops of juice, in the first condition (before learning), what is the effect on dopamine neurons?
Dopamine neurons are activated after the delivery of reward
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In the task where monkeys must touch the lever when light appears to receive drops of juice, in the second condition (after several days of training), what is the effect on dopamine neurons? (2 points)
Primary reward no longer elicits phasic dopamine response Now, onset of light causes a phasic burst of activity in dopamine neurons
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In the task where monkeys must touch the lever when light appears to receive drops of juice, in the third condition (after training, reward is not delivered), what is the effect on dopamine neurons?
Dopamine neurons decrease firing for short period of time, so activity is lower than baseline
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What was the conclusions of the Learning Driven by Rewards study on monkeys? (3 points)
Activity of midbrain dopamine neurons is related to reward But dopamine neurons do more than simply report occurences of reward They code deviations from predictions about time and magnitude of reward
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How do you calculate the reward prediction error (RPE)?
Actual reward - expected reward= RPE
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We are continuously predicting ____ future reward
Expected
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We take ____ to ____ future reward
Actions; Maximize
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When we receive information that violates our expectations, it generates a ____ ____ ____
Reward prediction error
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We update our ____, which may alter our ____
Predictions; Actions
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Describe the dopamine pathway in the human brain
Midbrain dopamine neurons project to basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex, and many other areas
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What was the purpose of the Iowa Gambling Task (Bechara et al., 1994)
Compared control participants and patients with damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to find the effect of the damage on emotion and decision making (VMPFC)
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Name the study: Asked participants what they thought about the card decks Recorded their choices Measured skin conductance responses (SCRs) at the time of decision making (sweaty palms)
Iowa Gambling Task (Bechara et al., 1994)
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What are anticipatory SCRs? (specifically regarding the Iowa Gambling Task)
Patients have no anticipatory emotional feeling about how that action might turn out
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Which part of brain is associated with these functions? (Hint: Cortex) Maintenance and updating of goals Inhibition of prepotent actions Shifting between rules, sets, and tasks Monitoring and adjusting performance Integrating multiple sources of value All central to decision making and the selection of actions
Prefrontal cortex
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What is abstraction?
Identifying/focusing on common features to simplify complex information into more general concepts
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In abstraction, what are the features of the rostral prefrontal cortex? (3 points)
Complex Abstract Long timeframe
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In abstraction, what are the features of the caudal prefrontal cortex? (3 points)
Simple Concrete Short timeframe
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Is the ventral prefrontal cortex the what or where stream? (3 points)
What Why Meaning oriented
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Is the dorsal prefrontal cortex the what or where stream? (3 points)
Where How Action oriented
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What are the features of the medial prefrontal cortex? (3 points)
Hot/Affective/Motivation Value-based Internal/Body-oriented
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In abstraction, what are the features of the lateral prefrontal cortex? (3 points)
Cold/Cognitive/Rules Feature-based External/Environment-oriented