Week 8: Social Cognition Flashcards
Name a key player involved in social interaction and self-reflection
mPFC
Interaction between the ________ _________ cortex and the ___________________ junction enables a sense of ownership and control over the body
Extrastriate visual cortex, temporoparietal junction
Changeable aspects of faces such as perception of eye gaze, expression and lip movement are predominantly processed in which sulcus?
The superior temporal sulcus
Which attention system is involved with initiating; intentional attention orienting and social evaluation?
The anterior attention system
Which attention system is involved with responding; biological motion such as gaze, reflexive attention orienting and task switching?
The posterior attention system
Understanding the perspectives, intentions and actions of others is referred to as m______________.
2 other related concepts are MSA & ToM. What do these acronyms stand for?
Mentalising.
Mental state attribution and theory of mind
Define first and second order ToM
1st order: Emma is probably worried because she doesn’t think she’s going to have fun at school today
2nd order: Emma is probably worried because she thinks that Tom is thinking about how he’s going to play with her toys while she’s at school today
Spontaneous coordinated activity occurs in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, dorsal prefrontal cortex, lateral parietal cortex and cingulate gyrus as a result of what thought process?
Self-reflection
The temporal polar cortex, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), superior temporal sulcus and temporoparietal junction are all implicated in which mental state?
Mental flexibility
Goal directed movements increase activity in which sulcus?
Superior temporal sulcus
The _________ _________ sulcus is involved in mental flexibility, processing of facial information and its activity increases in conjunction with goal directed movements
Superior temporal sulcus
Prosopagnosia: Often have impaired
identity recognition with intact _____ categorisation
emotional
Difficulty evaluating emotional expression, with intact identify recognition. ________ lesion
amygdala
Difficulty evaluating gaze direction, with intact identify recognition. Superior _____sulcus lesion
STS, superior temporal sulcus
Which is representative of Alzheimas and which of semantic memory dementia?
- Hippocampal damage and Episodic memory deficits.
- Anterior temporal damage and global deficits in conceptual knowledge
- Hippocampal damage and Episodic memory deficits.= alzeimas
* Anterior temporal damage and global deficits in conceptual knowledge= semantic dementia
