PSYC 3330 - 2 (cog neuro/attention)

Question 1

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 1

a brain-based account of cognitive processes

Question 1

Semantic knowledge

Answer 1

temporal lobe

Question 2

Spatial understanding

Answer 2

parietal lobe

Question 3

Memory consolidation

Answer 3

hippocampus

Question 4

Planning and decisions

Answer 4

prefrontal cortex

Question 5

Motor learning

Answer 5

basal ganglia

Question 6

Emotions

Answer 6

amygdala

Question 7

Mind is to computer software, as brain is to:

Answer 7

hardware

Question 8

Hubel and Wiesel’s work

Answer 8

single cell recordings led to hierarchical view of vision

Question 9

Simple visual cells

Answer 9

respond to differences in light across receptive field

Question 10

Top down

Answer 10

voluntary, goal-directed

Question 11

Bottom up

Answer 11

involuntary, stimulus-driven

Question 12

Top down processing affects:

Answer 12

-attention in sensory cortex

-control of attention in frontoparietal cortex

Question 13

Sources of attention signals

Answer 13

-frontal eye fields

-superior parietal lobe and precuneus

-intraparietal sulcus

Question 14

Faces/houses

Answer 14

fusiform gyrus

Question 15

Early audition

Answer 15

superior temporal gyrus

Question 16

Motion

Answer 16

hMT+

Question 17

Early vision

Answer 17

V1-V4

Question 18

Visual area that likes movement

Answer 18

V5