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Topic 2 - Cognitive Neuroscience Flashcards

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VEP

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visual evoked potential

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Which machine produces VEP? How?

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electroencephalography EEG

—> ERP (event related potential)

—-> VEP

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By focusing on the object of interest, the VEP acts as a way of

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confirming your selection. Evokes a large potential when focusing.

For individuals with severe communication problems, this is potentially a way of communicating via the eyes alone.

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A patient in a vegetative state (‘locked-in’) as a result of a road traffic accident was asked to imagine playing tennis and imagine walking round their house. Differential brain activity was produced.

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SMA
PMC
PPC
PPA

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SMA =
PMC =
PPC =
PPA =

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SMA = supplementary motor area
PMC = premotor cortex
PPC = posterior parietal-lobe
PPA = parahippocampal gyrus
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What was the difference i brain avit5ivty between a normal person and the person locked in vegetable state?

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Normal controls’ brain activity was “indistinguishable” (p. 1402) from the activity of the locked-in patient.

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Normal controls’ brain activity was “indistinguishable” (p. 1402) from the activity of the locked-in patient. Therfore?

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this evidence of conscious awareness in an unconscious individual?

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Parts of the neuron

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  • dentrites
  • soma
  • axon
  • terminal button
  • synapse
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  • dentrites
  • soma
  • axon
  • terminal button
  • synapse

FUNCTIONS ???

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DENDRITE
Absorbs chemical stimulation from other neurons

SOMA
If dendritic activity is large enough an electric action potential will be fired

AXON
Conducts the electrical signal to terminal buttons at the end of the axon

TERMINAL BUTTON
Turns the electrical signal back into a chemical squirt

SYNAPE
The jump the chemical has to made to be taken up by the next dendrite

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By attaching microelectrodes to _______, we are able to observe ..

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AXONS, we are able to observe individual action potentials rather than large ensemble activity.

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The whole process of going from baseline, to depolarization, repolarization, refractory period back to resting state takes about

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5 ms.

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What are the phases of an action potential?

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Baseline (-70)
Depolarization (+40)
Repolarization (-70)
Refractory period (below -70)
Resting state (-70)
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Does the magnitude of the AP change with function of sensory input?

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NO, the magnitude stays exactly the same, the frequency that the AP are fired at does change as a function of sensory input.

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Differences in the sensory environment are coded by

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changes in the rate of axon firing

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FEATURE DETECTORS

Types

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Simple cells

Complex cells

End-stopped cells

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Simple cells

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respond to size, orientation, colour

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Complex cells

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respond to orientation and direction

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End-stopped cells

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respond to orientation, direction and size

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cats were only exposed to light in a vertically stripped cylinder for 5 hours a day. Wat were their neurons responses?

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neurons were only responsive to orientations they had previously been exposed to. These cats were essentially ‘blind’ to vertical and oblique lines.

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exposed cats from birth to horizontal lines in one eye and vertical lines in the other eye.
What were thier neurons responses?

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Single cell recordings revealed very specific neural sensitivity. Neurons had not generalised to oblique orientations, nor to orientations that the other eye had learnt.

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Depending on how neurons connect and talk to one another, a form of _______________ arises.

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hierarchical processing

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hierarchical processing

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This is where more and more complex
combinations of information can be
represented

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Groups of neurons in the temporal lobe help to code specific examples of

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stimuli in the environment. Visual faces, auditory frequencies, olfactory odours might all be sparsely coded.

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Dorsal and ventral spans across where of the brain

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From bottom to top of the entire head/brain

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Lateral and medial spans across where of the brain

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From left to right sides of the brain/head

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Anterior and posterior spans across where of the brain

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Form front to back of the brain/head

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What are the three main portions of the brain?

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Forebrain
Midbrain
Hindbrain

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FOREBRAIN

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  • Hypothalamus involved in hormone release and appetite.

- Limbic system includes amygdala and hippocampus.

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MIDBRAIN

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Includes reticular activation system, which controls consciousness, heartbeat…

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HINDBRAIN

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Basic biological functions controlled here such as swallowing and digestion.

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Cerebral cortex is made of what

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4 lobes

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Which lobes compose the cerebral cortex?

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Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital

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Frontal lobe function

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information coordination

  • personality
  • executive decisions
  • memory of current events
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Temporal lobe functions?

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AUDITORY PROCESSING

  • connected with first stage of auditory processing
  • sparsely code sensory objects
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Parietal lobe functions?

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Touch, temperature, and pain

  • houses the somatosensory homunculus.
  • body is mapped out spatially
  • stimulation of parietal = specific sensory experiences
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Primary somatosensory cortex

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Organizes how the Brian mapped out the body.

  • organizes the primary motor cortex
37
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What organizes the primary motor cortex?

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Primary somatosensory cortex

38
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Which lobe contains the somatosensory homonculus ?

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Parietal lobe

39
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Individuals can experience a
‘phantom limb’, that is, experience perceptual sensations of a limb that has been amputated. This might be
due to residual neuronal firing in
certain areas of

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primary somatosensory cortex.

40
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One intriguing observation is that in
individuals who have lost an arm,
stroking the face can …

Explain?

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reinstate tactile sensation in the arm.

This relates to the organisation of
primary somatosensory cortex, and
the idea that the face might have
‘moved into’ the empty cortical real
estate left by the arm.
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Occipital lobe functions

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Visual processing

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Visual agnosia

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Inability to recognize faces or objects

43
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What part becomes excited when seeing something recognizable with visual agnosia,

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Fusiform face area FFA

44
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Where is the basic face processing occur?

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In the temporal lobe

45
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Where does evaluation of attractiveness occur?

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Frontal lobe

46
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Emotional reaction inside occurs where?

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Temporal lobe

47
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Basic visual features are processed where in the brain?

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Occipital lobe

48
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Awareness of gaze direction occurs where?

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Parietal lobes

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The corpus callosum is responsible for

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transferring information from left and right hemispheres

50
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Transmission across the corpus callosum takes around

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1 ms.

51
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Damage to the corpus collusion results in

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Split brain

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Split Brian

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  • can be present at birth or form surgery to reduce epileptic symptomology.
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Anna today evidence suggests that the two hemispheres may have

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2 seperate consciousness

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Damage to the right hemisphere?

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Left side of visual field
Left side control 
Emotion (?) 
Creativity (?) 
Holistic (?)
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Damage to the left hemisphere?

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Right side of visual field
Right side control 
Language (?) 
Mathematics (?) 
Analytic (?)
56
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Our brain is crossed in a peculiar way: information to the right of fixation will be processed by the

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left side of both retina, and then, information from both eyes will merge in the left hemisphere.

57
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Damage to LEFT HEMISPHERE Neglect of ____

Damage to RIGHT HEMISPHERE
Neglect of ____

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Damage to LEFT HEMISPHERE Neglect of RIGHT VISUAL FIELD

Damage to RIGHT HEMISPHERE Neglect of LEFT VISUAL FIELD

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Damage to which hemisphere impacts language ability on which visual side?

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Damage of the right hemisphere impairs left visual field

Damage to the left hemisphere impairs right visual field.

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Damage to which hemisphere impacts motor based responding ability

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Damage to the right hemisphere impairs left visual field and retrieval with left hand is impaired.

Damage to the left hemisphere impairs right visual field and retrieval with right hand is impaired.

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Phineas cage case

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  • Impaired benevolence and agreeableness

- personality changes

61
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Aphasia can be both

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Non-fluent —> brochas aphasia

Fluent —> wernickes aphasia

62
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Brochas aphasia

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Non-fluent
- impairs expressive language

  • brocha’s area located in the left frontal lobe, Near the front of the brain.
  • words uttered are slow and poorly articulated.
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Wernickes’s aphasia

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Fluent
- impairs receptive speech and language (don’t understand words)

  • wernick’s area located in the temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere.
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Where does object identification occur?

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Temporal lobe

65
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Where do emotional responses occur?

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Amygdala

66
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Where’s the amygdala located

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In the medial temporal lobe.

67
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Does lesion to a section of the brain and it effecting a specific function mean that that area is responsible for that specific function?

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No because u may have just lesioned a communication link instead, effecting a specific function or behaviour, doesn’t necessarily mean its directly responsible for that specific function.

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Brain scanning processes

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TMS
ERP
PET
MRI

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TMS

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TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION .

Sends weak magnetic fields across the cortical surface, leading to temporary (non-permanent) disruption of electrical activity.

70
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ERP

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EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS

Records the weak electrical fields generated by large scale neural ensembles that permeate out through the skull.

71
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PET

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POSITRON EMISSION TOPOGRAPHY

After ingestion of a radioactive tag which attached itself to glucose, glucose uptake related to increased brain activity

72
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MRI

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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Records BOLD signal on the principle that oxygenated blood has different magnetic properties than deoxygenated blood.

73
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Pros and cons to TMS

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PRO: Relatively safe way of simulating lesions

CON: Effects are not long-lasting, not for epileptic samples

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Pros and cones to ERP

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PRO: Incredibly precise temporal recording (millisecond)

CON: Spatially diffuse, what does no ERP modulation mean?

75
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Pros and cons to PET

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PRO: Allows for insights into functionality of brain regions

CON: Poor spatial resolution, involve radioactive substances

76
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Pros and cons to MRI

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PRO: (functional)MRI popular in revealing brain networks

CON: BOLD signal very slow, not sure what it really means

77
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More neuroimaging techniques work on the compromise between

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temporal resolution and spatial resolution

78
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Naturally occurring lesions that we ‘find’ are often the most interesting cases, but lack control and are often incredibly

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diffuse in terms of affected brain regions.

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