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what are executive functions needed for

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to optimise performance in situations that require coordination between several cognitive processes

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executive functions are supervisory/meta-cognitive, meaning…

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they are not specific to one domain

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what type of behaviour required executive functions

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controlled behaviour, but not automatic behaviours

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which brain area is linked to executive functions

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prefrontal cortex

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3 surfaces of the prefrontal cortex

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lateral, medial and orbital

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the lateral surface is implicated in…

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cold control processes- cognitive aspects

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the orbital and the medial surfaces are implicated in…

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hot control processes- emotional/social regulation of behaviour

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what are the 5 general situations requiring executive functions

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(1) Situations involving planning or decision making
(2) Situations involving error correction or trouble-shooting
(3) Situations where responses are not well-learned or contain novel sequences of actions
(4) Situations judged to be dangerous or technically difficult
(5) Situations that require the overcoming of a strong habitual response or resisting temptation

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which area is particularly activated when healthy patients carry out the towers of London task

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PFC (especially dorsolateral)

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what do patients with PFC damage do

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exhibit perseveration behaviour

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what is preservation behaviour

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keep responding using a previously correct response

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what is the PFC involved in

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error correction and troubleshooting

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what area is activated more when feedback is negative, and what does this suggest

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Ventrolateral PFC, suggests involvement of this region when there is a need to change the rule

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what is the role of the anterior cingulate in executive functions

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Detection of errors and detection of response conflict

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where does an error potential originate

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the anterior cingulate

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what does Petrides’ (2000) Theory
of Working Memory assume

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division of PFC into at least two separate
processes – maintenance (retention) and manipulation
(updating)

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patents with PFC damage are impaired at

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self-ordered pointing task

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role of ventrolateral PFC

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Short-term maintenance of spatial
information

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real of dorsolateral PFC

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maintenance and updating with new locations

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what is the left dorsolateral PFC involved in

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selecting a range of
plausible responses and free will

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what is the right dorsolateral PFC involved in

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monitoring and sustained
attention

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when is right dorsolateral PFC most active

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in conditions of uncertainty

23
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what do unitary accounts argue

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there are no ‘executive functions’, just one
general underlying function

24
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evidence for unitary accounts

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patients’ performance on many tests of executive function are correlated with each other, and with fluid intelligence

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why would we say that any area of the PFC could carry out any executive functions when necessary

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Single-cell recording of PFC neurons in monkeys show that they change their responsiveness flexibly according to task demands

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what is the multiple demand network

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single set of fronto-parietal brain regions that is
active during all tasks that we consider to involve executive functions

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what does the multiple-demand network do to complex tasks

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divides complex tasks into a sequence of “attentional episodes”

28
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what are attentional episodes

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the ability to break down a complex task into smaller less complex segments

29
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what do patients with more lesions in their multiple demand system show

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a greater deficit in fluid intelligence

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