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PSYC 398 Final
Cognitive Neuroscience final
213
Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/19/2015

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Term
What are the three components of emotion?
Definition
  • Feeling (subjective experience)
  • Behaviour
  • Physiology
Term
Which brain areas are involved in emotional learning? Describe the type of emotional learning of each.
Definition
  • Amygdala: implicit learning
  • Hippocampus: explicit learning
  • (Also communication between the two)
Term
Implicit & explicit emotional learning
Definition
  • Implicit: learning without conscious awareness
  • Explicit: learning with conscious awareness
Term
What are the two pathways of fear conditioning?
Definition
  • Low road pathway
  • High road pathway
Term
Low road pathway
Definition
  • Thalamus to the amygdala signalling fear response
  • Fast, priming responses that allow for rapid behavioural response
  • Preparatory
  • Cannot differentiate between stimuli
Term
High road
Definition
  • Thalamus --> Cortex --> Amygdala
  • Confirms preparatory signal from the low road that a stimulus is threatening
  • Slow (simultaneous to low road, but occurs slower)
  • Involves conscious awareness and context
Term
Potentiated conditioned response
Definition
  • Occurs when you see the conditioned response from a pairing of a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus
Term
What is the effect of amygdala lesions on emotional learning? Support answer with a study.
Definition
  • Patient S.P.: Bilateral amygdala damage
  • Normal startle responses, but unable to acquire fear conditioning (from pairing CS to UR)
  • Showed explicit awareness of the conditioned paradigm, but no behavioural or physiological response to a CS
  • Implication: amygdala not necessary for understanding the pairing between an US and CS, but is necessary for eliciting a conditioned response
    • Implicit emotional learning
Term
What is the effect of hippocampal lesions on emotional learning?
Definition
  • Implicit emotional learning without explicit emotional learning
    • Show conditioned response after pairing an unconditioned stimulus with a conditioned stimulus
  • No conscious awareness of the association between the US and CS
  • Double dissociation with amygdalar lesions
Term
Instructed fear
Definition
  • Fear response toward a stimulus caused by knowledge and vicarious experience, but not through direct experience
Term
What structure is involved in the acquisition of instructed fear?
Definition
  • Amygdala
  • Again, individuals have explicit knowledge that a stimulus will be threatening, but show no behavioural or physiological response when the stimulus is presented
Term
Give an example of an instructed fear paradigm
Definition
  • "In some trials, a blue square stimulus will be paired with a shock"
  • Participant expects an aversive stimulus in a particular condition
Term
Emotion and memory rely on communication between which two structures? Describe the nature of the functional connection.
Definition
  • Amygdala & hippocampus
  • Amygdala modulates hippocampal consolidation of memories
    • Emotional tagging, salience
    • Determines what you remember
Term
Describe a study looking at amygdala-hippocampus interaction
Definition
  • Rats learn Morris water maze
  • Better retention when rat is aroused immediately after training
  • No change in retention in rats with amygdalar lesions
    • (i.e., baseline intact, no effect of arousal)
  • Implications:
    • Amygdala enhances retention (via consolidation) but not initial encoding
    • Amygdalar activation may decrease forgetting
Term
What is the effect of cortisol on memory consolidation of conditioned fear responses?
Definition
  • Enhances memory acquisition at moderate arousal levels
  • High and low arousal impair memory via glucocorticoid receptors in the hippocampus
Term
What clinical disorder ties into fear and emotional memory?
Definition
  • PTSD
Term
Symptoms of PTSD
Definition
  • Re-experiencing of the event via intrusive memories, flashbacks, etc.
  • Anxiety and fear associated with flashbacks
  • Sensitivity to stimuli that are (loosely) associated with the traumatic event
Term
Describe PTSD in the context of amygdala-hippocamus interaction
Definition
  • Disorder of memory and fear systems; i.e., maladaptive connection between hippocampus (memory) and amygdala (fear response)
  • Generalization of CS, such that fear response is activated by less specific stimuli
  • Recurrance of fearful memories
Term
Describe a potential treatment method for PTSD
Definition
  • Client is asked to recall traumatic memory
  • During this period of reconsolidation, a shock is administered
  • After repeated pairings, participant comes to associate the memory with the shock
  • Once fear conditioning has taken place, clinician stops administering shocks
    • i.e., extinction of the fear conditioning that has replaced previous associations
Term
Brain region associated with (socially appropriate) decision making
Definition
  • OFC
  • Connected to emotion areas (e.g., amygdala)
Term
What is the mechanism of OFC damage in causing socially inappropriate behaviour?
Definition
  • Lack of association (emotional memory) between inappropriate behaviour and the emotional consequence
Term
Somatic markers
Definition
  • Physiological changes in arousal
Term
Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis
Definition
  • Memories of past actions are tagged with emotions and somatic markers. These provide feedback that predicts whether we will engage in a behaviour again
  • OFC involved in the decision by evaluating outcomes
Term
Name and describe a test of decision making
Definition
  • Iowa gambling task
  • "Bad decks" have larger magnitude gains but yield net losses
Term
How do patients with OFC damage perform on the Iowa gambling task? What are the implications?
Definition
  • Continue to choose cards from decks that deal greater loss
  • Implication: OFC involved in recognizing the changing patterns of reward and punishment
Term
Regret
Definition
  • Negative affect resulting from making a voluntary choice that had better alternatives
Term
Where does regret occur in the brain? Support this answer with a research finding.
Definition
  • OFC
    • Anticipation and experience of regret
  • OFC-damaged patients feel happy/sad in response to wins/losses, but do not experience regret when they are personally accountable for a poor decision
Term
How does the OFC guide future behaviour?
Definition
  • Because we experience regret, we learn to be risk averse (i.e., make decisions that avoid risk)
Term
Emotion regulation
Definition

Processes that influence...

  • Type of emotion experienced
  • Subjective emotional experience
  • When emotions will be experienced
  • Expression of emotion
Term
Emotion regulation processes (2)
Definition
  • Reappraisal
  • Suppression
Term
Describe emotion regulation via reappraisal and the effects of this process
Definition
  • Regulating the input of an emotional experience
  • Alleviates negative affect
  • Reduces behavioural responses to the emotion
  • Minimal physiological toll
  • Healthy
Term
Describe emotion regulation via suppression and the effects of this process
Definition
  • Regulating the output of an emotional experience
  • No effect on the emotional experience
  • Increases sympathetic system's stress response
  • Unhealthy
Term
Implicit reappraisal
Definition
  • "Emotional recovery"
  • Increased resting activity in the left PFC
    • Correlates with voluntary suppression of negative affect
    • Correlates with decreased startle response (i.e., duration of of emotional response)
    • No correlation with emotional reactivity
  • Implications: decreased resting activity of left PFC predicts recovery from an emotion, but not reactivity to it
Term
Cognitive reappraisal
Definition
  • "Emotional recovery"
  • Different patterns of activity are apparent for different cognitive reappraisal goals (e.g., focusing on yourself vs. the situation)
  • Role of the amygdala (increase in activity) is to match reappraisal goals and behaviour
Term
Role of the amygdala in emotion regulation
Definition
  • Regulates goals of the PFC
  • Match regulation/reappraisal goals and behaviour
    • Decrease activity when goal is to decrease emotional experience, vice versa
  • Provides affective flexibility
Term
Learning
Definition
  • Acquiring information through experience
  • Represented through change in behaviour
Term
Memory
Definition
  • Application of learning that facilitates the use of prior experience
Term
Where does reinforcement learning take place?
Definition
  • Basal ganglia
Term
Stages of memory processing (3)
Definition
  1. Encoding
  2. Storage
  3. Retrieval
Term
Encoding
Definition
  • Acquisition (i.e., learning)
  • Consolidation (i.e., memory stabilization)
Term
Storage
Definition
  • Permanent record of learning is housed
Term
Retrieval
Definition
  • Accessing and utilization of stored information
Term
Role of the hippocampus in memory
Definition
  • Creation of new explicit memories
  • Patient H.M.
Term
Overarching types of memory (4)
Definition
  • Sensory memory
  • Working memory
  • Short-term memory
  • Long-term memory
Term
Qualities of memory
Definition
  • Capacity
  • Duration
  • Encoding
Term
Sensory memory
Definition
  • Neural traces of sensory information
  • Retain lots of information, but short-lived trace
Term
How long does iconic memory last? Echoic memory?
Definition
  • Iconic: 300-500 ms
  • Echoic: up to 10 sec
Term
Mismatched field
Definition
  • Neural activation in response to unexpected stimulus
  • EEG or MEG
Term
Describe a study that measured duration of echoic memory
Definition
  • Participants listened to "oddball sequences" of frequent "standard" sounds and the rare "deviant" sound
  • EEG activation shows mismatched field when there is less than a 9 second interval between the standard and deviant stimulus
Term
What is the capacity and duration of short-term memory?
Definition
  • 7 +/- 2 items
  • Seconds to minutes
Term
Atkinson and Schffrin's modal model
Definition
  • Serial information processing
    • 3 hierarchical nodes:
    1. Sensory register
    2. Short-term storage
    3. Long-term storage
  • Information is lost from STM if it is not attended to 

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Term
Describe a study that counters the modal model
Definition
  • Patient K.F.
  • Impaired digit span but intact LTM
  • Implication: dissociation between STM and LTM suggests that they are not arranged in hierarchical nodes
Term
Working memory
Definition
  • Manipulation of information from sensory, short-term, or long-term memory
  • Maintenance of incoming information
  • Limited capacity
Term
Baddeley's working memory hypothesis model
Definition
  • Working memory is organized into a central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and episodic buffer

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Term
Central executive
Definition
  • Control centre that...
    • Coordinates interactions
    • Shifts/divides attention
    • Prevents errors
    • Rehearses information
  • Limited capacity
  • Flexible
Term
Phonological loop
Definition
  • Storing and processing verbal information and speech
  • Divided into two parts: phonological store and subvocal rehearsal mechanisms
Term
Phonological store
Definition
  • Part of the phonological loop
  • Verbal information
  • Storage of word traces (i.e., articulatory processing)
  • Rapid decay
Term
Subvocal rehearsal mechanisms
Definition
  • Part of the phonological loop
  • Helps prevent decay of information from WM by refreshing information
Term
Visuospatial sketchpad
Definition
  • Storing and processing visual information, including...
    • Spatial orientation
    • Colour
    • Shape
    • Size
    • Orientation
Term
Evidence for the phonological loop
Definition
  • Irrelevant speech effect: impaired recall of numbers or words (auditory or visual) when they are paired with speech
    • Suggests verbal component regardless of modality
Term
Evidence that the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad are distinct
Definition
  • Participants did a dual task paradigm, in which they had to perform two tasks at the same time
  • Worse performance when the two tasks required the same modality (i.e., verbal or visuospatial)
  • No change in performance (compared with doing a single task) when tasks were in different modalities
Term
Episodic buffer
Definition
  • Guides interaction with long-term memory 
  • Also interaction with semantic information
  • Integration of information from various domains of perception
Term
Types of long-term memory
Definition
  • Explicit (also called declarative)
    • Episodic
    • Semantic
  • Implicit
    • Procedural
    • Perceptual representation system (e.g., priming)
    • Classical conditioning
    • Nonassociative learning (e.g., habituation, sensitization)
Term
Structures in the medial temporal lobe (5)
Definition
  • Amygdala
  • Hippocampus
  • Parahippocampal cortex
    • Entorhinal cortex
    • Perirhinal cortex
Term
Describe H.M.'s brain and memory deficits
Definition
  • MTL almost entirely removed
  • Severe anterograde amnesia
  • Some retrograde amnesia
  • Intact STM (dissociation)
Term
Implications of H.M. case study
Definition
  • MTL crucial in the formation of long-term memories
  • MTL not involved in short-term memory or storage of memories
Term
Transient global amnesia
Definition
  • Temporary amnesia following acute emotional or physical stress
  • Related to damage of the hippocampus
Term
Types of retrieval (2)
Definition
  • Recollection
  • Familiarity
Term
Distinguish recollection and familiarity
Definition
  • Recollection: relies on episodic memory of when/where the target was seen before.
  • Familiarity: semantic memory that a target has been seen before, but without memory of time/place
Term
Describe a study that looked at the neural representation of recollection and familiarity
Definition
  • Participants studied set of words. The words were presented with certain physical charactertistics (e.g., in red or green text)
  • Double dissociation between recollection and familiarity representations
    • Hippocampus involved in coding context (i.e., recollection)
    • Left perirhinal cortex involved in coding target items (familiarity)
Term
Which structure is responsible for recollection retrieval?
Definition
  • Hippocampus
  • Encodes contextual information to aid later recollection
Term
Which structure is responsible for familiarity retrieval?
Definition
  • Left perirhinal cortex
  • Item-based encoding (specific to target itself) to aid later familiarity judgments
Term
Do we observe similar processing mechanisms during retrieval and encoding?
Definition
  • Yes
  • Retrieval appears to be (partially) a reactivation of the areas that were involved in encoding
  • Evidence: the same areas are activated when encoding and retrieving modality-specific information
  • Previous study also holds for familiarity-based and retrieval-based encoding
Term
Binding items and contexts (BIC) model
Definition
  • Different regions of the MTL represent different types of information
  • Perirhinal cortex involved in item memory
  • Parahippocampal cortex involved in contextual memory
  • Hippocampus binds "what" (item) and "where" (context) information
    • Relational memory
Term
Areas involved in long-term memory
Definition
  • Frontal cortex
    • Various regions
    • e.g., Broca's area
  • Parietal cortex
    • Cingulate cortex
      • Retrosplenial
      • Posterior cingulate cortex
    • Anterior temporal system
    • Posterior medial system
Term
2 system model of memory guided behaviour
Definition
  • Model of memory retrieval and its association with cognitive processes
  • Anterior temporal system (AT) and posterior medial system (PM)
  • Each system contributes to a different aspect of memory by different information from an experience
Term
Anterior temporal system
Definition
  • Involved in the early stages of memory processing (encoding & retrieval)
  • Target specific (e.g., person)
  • Existing semantic concepts (e.g., person's name)
  • Associated relevance and salient information (e.g., details)
Term
Posterior medial system
Definition
  • Supports recollection-based memory (i.e., representations of context and information)
  • Later stages of memory processing
Term
Describe disorders that are associated with the anterior temporal and posterior medial systems
Definition
  • Double dissociation

Anterior temporal

  • Semantic dementia (impaired semantic memory)

Posterior medial

  • Alzheimer's disease (impaired episodic memory)
Term
Consolidation
Definition
  • Process in which immediate memories are transfomed into long-term memories
  • Two types:
    • Rapid, initial consolidation
    • Slower, but permanent consolidation
    • (After ECT, tend to lose memories that have only undergone the initial rapid consolidation)
Term
Theories of memory consolidation
Definition
  • Standard consolidation theory
  • Multiple trace theory
Term
Standard consolidation theory
Definition
  • Newly encoded information is retained in the hippocampus for initial, temporary storage
  • Consolidation is the result of connections that form between the hippocampus and cortical areas
    • Transfer of information (no permanent housing in hippocampus)
  • Assumes similar processes for semantic and episodic information
Term
Problems with standard consolidation theory
Definition
  • Research has demonstrated that consolidation for semantic and episodic information involves different processes
  • Some patients have hippocampal damage but intact long-term memory
Term
Multiple trace theory
Definition
  • Memory reactivation leads to multiple traces in the hippocampus, which are connected to the cortex
  • Extension of standard consolidation theory that accounts for differences in episodic and semantic memories
    • Semantic information is fully transferred to the cortex
    • Episodic information relies on hippocampal-cortical connections
      • Hippocampus relied on for memory of contextual information
Term
How does sleep affect consolidation? Support with a study
Definition
  • Reactivation of memories during slow wave sleep solidifies memories (consolidation) and improves recall
  • Participants learned card locations while being exposed to an odour. Participants who were exposed to the odour while sleeping after the task had better memory of the card locations.
  • Participants who were exposed to the odour during while awake (but before learning a second set) had impaired recall on the original set.
  • This suggests that reactivation during wakefulness updates memories with related information
Term
Define the following orientations of the brain: dorsal, ventral, anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, rostral, caudal, sagital, coronal, medial, lateral
Definition
  • Dorsal: top of the brain; also called superior.
  • Ventral: bottom of the brain; also called inferior.
  • Anterior: front of the brain; also called rostral.
  • Posterior: back of the brain; also called caudal.
  • Rostral: closer to the brain; or front of the brain.
  • Caudal: closer to the spinal cord; or back of the brain.
  • Sagital: plane of brain slices in which you cut from front to back.
  • Coronal: place of brain slices in which you cut horizontally or separate the front from the back.
  • Medial: closer to the middle.
  • Lateral: closer to the outside.

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Term
What areas are associated with language?
Definition
  • Generally: left hemisphere
  • Broca's area (in left insular cortex)
  • Primary auditory cortex (in superior temporal gyrus)
  • Auditory association cortex (in superior temporal gyrus)
  • Wernicke's area (in posterior superior temporal gyrus)
  • Angular gyrus
  • Suppramarginal gyrus
  • M1 speech centre

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Term
Where is Broca's area?
Definition
  • Left insular cortex
Term
Where are A1 and A2?
Definition
  • Superior temporal gyrus
Term
Where is Wernicke's area?
Definition
  • Posterior superior temporal gyrus
Term
What areas in the right hemisphere are associated with language? What are their functions?
Definition
  • Superior temporal sulcus
    • Prosody
    • Phonological information
  • PFC, middle temporal gyrus, PCC
    • Metaphorical meaning
Term
Aphasia
Definition
  • Deficit in language comprehension or production
  • Usually due to left hemisphere damage
Term
Dysarthria
Definition
  • Difficulty controlling the muscles used in speech
Term
Speech apraxia
Definition
  • Impairment in motor planning and programming of speech articulation
  • Occurs when there is left hemisphere brain damage
Term
Anomia
Definition
  • i.e., Wernicke's aphasia
  • Difficulty finding words
Term
Broca's aphasia
Definition
  • Defict lies in production of speech and comprehension of syntax
Term
Semantic dementia
Definition
  • Loss of word meaning with retained comprehension of syntactic meaning
Term
Wernicke's aphasia
Definition
  • Deficits in speech comprehension
  • Non-sensical speech
Term
What structure connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas?
Definition
  • Arcuate fasciculus
Term
What are the specializations of Wernicke's area?
Definition
  • Sensory information
  • Motor information
Term
Do lesions to Wernicke's area produce Wernicke's aphasia?
Definition
  • Only sometimes
  • Damage to Wernicke's area and arcuate fasciculus are predictive
Term
Areas involved in language comprehension
Definition
  • As indicated last flashcard:
  • Wernicke's area
  • Arcuate fasciculus
Term
Levels of language organization
Definition
  • Phoneme
  • Morpheme
  • Semantic
  • Syntactic
  • Discourse
Term
Mental lexicon
Definition
  • Mental representation of information about words
Term
What are the steps involved in language processing?
Definition
  • (These occur serially)
  • Lexical access: word form representations regarding semantics and syntactics
  • Lexical selection: identify the word from the mental lexicon that matches the target word
  • Lexical integration: integration of words into sentences and context; understanding
Term
Describe 3 models of the mental lexicon of semantic representation
Definition
  1. Co-occurance of words primes each other
  2. Semantic features/properties are represented
  3. Semantic network model
    • Most supported
Term
Semantic network model
Definition
  • Collins & Loftus
  • Word meanings are represented in conceptual nodes that are connected to each other
  • Model is based on the association between words
Term
What phenomena support the semantic network model?
Definition
  • Dyslexia
  • Semantic paraphasia
Term
Surface dyslexia
Definition
  • Difficulty with visual recognition of words
Term
Deep dyslexia
Definition
  • Impaired reading of words, non-words, and unknown words
Term
Semantic paraphasia
Definition
  • Substitution of a word that is similar in meaning
  • Occurs in Wernicke's aphasia
Term
According to Warrington, what property yields different (neural) semantic representations?
Definition
  • Living vs. man-made
Term
What regions beget semantic representation of animals?
Definition
  • Lateral fusiform gyrus
  • Superior temporal sulcus
Term
What regions beget semantic representation of tools?
Definition
  • Medial fusiform gyrus
  • Left middle temporal gyrus
Term
Describe semantic representations of living and non-living objects
Definition
  • At the specific level (i.e., naming the target), better representation (via activation) of non-living objects because they have fewer features
  • At the domain level (i.e., stating whether living or non-living), no difference in representation
Term
What region represents semantic information of living things?
Definition
  • Anterior temporal lobe
Term
Region involved in specific-level naming
Definition
  • Anterior temporal lobe
Term
Region involved in domain-level naming
Definition
  • Posterior temporal lobe
Term
What are the two pathways for linguistic input?
Definition
  • Spoken word
  • Written word

 

Term
How do we recognize individual words in speech?
Definition
  • Prosody
  • Word boundaries
Term
Prosody
Definition
  • Rhythm, stress, intonation
Term
Word boundaries
Definition
  • Emphasis on word syllables signals where the word begins/ends
Term
Regions associated with recognition of speech sounds
Definition
  • Superior temporal lobe (both hemispheres)
  • Primary auditory cortex
  • Auditory association areas
Term
Pure word deafness (& how it is caused)
Definition
  • Difficulty recognizing speech sounds but not other sounds
  • Caused by bilaterial lesions of the superior temporal lobe
Term
Is A1 specific to speech sounds, or non-specific?
Definition
  • Non-specific
  • Ascending system (see next)
Term
Ascending system
Definition
  • As you move away from A1, specificity (for speech sounds vs. written word) increases
Term
Regions associated with language comprehension of spoken input
Definition
  • Superior anterior gyrus
  • Superior temporal gyrus
  • Superior temporal sulcus
  • These specifically relate to phonological information
Term
Computational model of visual letter recognition
Definition
  • McClelland and Rumelhart
  • 3 levels of representation occurring in parallel
    • Features of letters & words
    • Letters of words
    • Representation of words
Term
Evidence for computational model of visual letter recognition
Definition
  • Word superiority effect: better recognition of letters that are presented in words
    • Because of the model's top-down processing, word representation can affect feature representation
Term
Regions associated with language comprehension of written input
Definition
  • Occipitotemporal cortex
Term
Evidence for the involvement of the occipitotemporal cortex in comprehension of written input
Definition
  • Lesions cause pure alexia (inability to read words)
Term
When does language comprehension occur?
Definition
  • Both at lower-level representations (e.g., sensory input, features) and higher-level (e.g., context)
Term
Context (of language)
Definition
  • Semantics + syntax
Term
Models of word comprehension (3)
Definition
  • These posit when sentence context influences our representation of word meaning
  • Models differ in the relationship between low-level representations and high-level

 

  • Modular models
  • Interactive models
  • Hybrid models
Term
Modular models
Definition
  • Processing between sensory and contextual representations is largely independent
  • Bottom-up processing that requires sensory information of each word be processed before context
  • Little interaction between modules
Term
Interactive models
Definition
  • Integration of sensory and contextual representations
  • At word level, there is activation of the word and related words, and inhibition of unrelated words
  • Don't need sensory information to get contextual information
    • Context can influence word recognition before sensory information is available (from activation/inhibition)
    • Bottom-up and top-down
Term
Hybrid model
Definition
  • Word selection can be influenced by sensory and contextual information
  • Combination of modular and interactive models
  • For an ambiguous word, most frequent word is tried first before all possibilities are exhausted
  • Context reduces the candidates for word possibilites
Term
Cross-modal priming study
Definition
  • Participants did lexical decision task, in which they listened to a phrase and make lexical decisions (word or nonword) based on visually-presented words at the same time
  • Faster to identify targets related to the spoken sentence as being words, regardless of whether the final word in the sentence had been spoken or not
  • Supports an interactive or hybrid model
    • Even though sometimes the final word had not been spoken, still showed decreased latency for related words
    • Did not need sensory processing to discern context
Term
Syntactic parsing
Definition
  • Application of grammatical rules to analyze and comprehend whole structures
  • Important for higher-order representations
  • e.g., you can comprehend a sentence that has no semantic meaning as long as it follows syntactic rules
Term
ERPs observed with syntactic processing
Definition
  • P600 in parietal cortex (i.e., syntactic positive shift)
  • Left anterior negativity (LAN) in the frontal cortex
Term
P600 & LAN
Definition
  • P600 also called syntactic positive shift
  • Occurs when hear/read syntactic errors or a semantic violation
Term
ERP associated with semantic processing
Definition
  • N400 in parietal cortex
  • Occurs whether reading or hearing semantic errors
Term
What does ASL tell us about neural organization of language?
Definition
  • Left hemisphere dependent
  • Same distinction between semantic and syntactic processing
  • Deficits similar to Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia
    • Anterior brain damage (Broca's) causes impaired syntactic hand movements
    • Posterior brain damage (Wernicke's) causes nonsensical--but fluent--signing
  • Implication: neural organization of language is modality-independent (e.g., speaking, reading, signing)
Term
Cortical language circuit of speech comprehension
Definition

Dorsal pathways: projections from Broca's area to premotor cortex (posterior)

  • Speech perception
  • Speech formation

Ventral pathways: semantic meaning

  • Storage of word representations
  • Retrieval of word representations

 

Term
Functions of Broca's area
Definition
  • Integration of semantic, syntactic, phonological processing
  • Speech perception
Term
Areas important for semantic processing
Definition
  • Broca's area
  • Premotor cortex
Term
Areas important for word meaning processing
Definition
  • Medial temporal gyrus
  • Anterior superior temporal gyrus
Term
Areas important for phonetic processing
Definition
  • Anterior superior temporal gyrus
  • Posterior superior temporal gyrus
  • Superior temporal sulcus
Term
Models of speech production
Definition
  • Levelt's model
  • Dell model
  • (Differ on how semantic, syntactic, and phonological information are combined for speech production)
Term
Levelt's model
Definition
  • Modular model
  • Serial processing
  • Macroplanning: plan what to say
  • Microplanning: choose words and grammar to execute plan
  1. Conceptualization of what you want to say
    • Representations are activated
  2. Syntactic information is represented
  3. Word forms and associated syntactic adjustments (e.g., making word plural) are activated
    • Selection of phonemes to use
    • (Tip of the tongue)
  4. Articulation and speech production
Term
Anomia
Definition
  • Inability to name objects
  • Difficulty finding words
  • Intact ability to say words (able to repeat)
  • Based on Levelt's model, deficit at word form level
Term
Slip of the tongue
Definition
  • Mixing up phonemes
  • Not to be confused with tip of the tongue
  • Evidence that we don't plan one word at a time
Term
Dell model
Definition
  • "Dell model of spreading activation"
  • Bidirectional spreading activation between nodes (e.g., semantic, syntactic, phoenetic)
  • Feedback from phonological activation of semantic and syntactic properties, which enhances them
  • Interactionist (as opposed to modular)
Term
What do studies in epileptic patients tell us about speech production?
Definition
  • 3 distinct waves of activity in Broca's area: word recognition, grammar, phonological
  • Linguistic abilities are temporally and spatially distinct in Broca's area
  • Serial process (i.e., in line with Levelt's model)
Term
Cognitive control
Definition
  • Identify goals and how to achieve them
  • Collection of brain mechanisms that reflect short-term and long-term goals
  • Allows flexible and adaptive behaviour
  • Reliant on executive functioning
Term
S-R-O
Definition
  • Stimulus-response-outcome
Term
Goal-directed behaviour
Definition
  • Behavioural responses are produced to achieve a goal
  • S-R-O 
  • Outcome driven, response also emphasized
Term
Habitual behaviour
Definition
  • Automatic responses are produced regardless of outcome
  • S-R-O
  • Stimulus driven
Term
What mental skills are required for goal-directed behaviour?
Definition
  • WM
  • Executive functioning
Term
Executive control processes
Definition
  • Manipulate the contents of working memory (with regard to goal-directed behaviour)
    • Planning
    • Task management
    • Attention
    • Monitoring
Term
Cognitive control system
Definition
  • Regions in the PFC
    • Lateral prefrontal
    • Frontal pole
    • Medial frontal
Term
Evidence that PFC is involved in cognitive control/goal-directed behaviour
Definition
  • Unilateral lesions--small deficits to WM and in perseveration
  • Bilateral lesions--severe deficit in goal-directed behaviour and motivation
Term
Representation of goal-directed behaviour
Definition
  • Sustained activity in PFC during delay period (without stimuli)
Term
Evidence for goal-directed activity in PFC
Definition
  • Delayed response task
    • Need to hold target location in WM
  • Neurons in lateral PFC show sustained activity during delay phase (between stimulus presentation and responding)
    • Only when response is goal-directed
Term
Describe the neural representation of goals
Definition
  • Sustained PFC activity
  • Draws resources from memory
Term
Lateral PFC
Definition
  • Goal-directed
  • Maintain and manipulate goals
Term
Frontal pole
Definition
  • Goal-directed
  • Representation and integration of details (e.g., overarching goals, memories)
Term
What factors play into a decision?
Definition
  • Value
    • Effort
    • Cost
    • Payoff
    • Context
    • Preference
Term
What regions represent value?
Definition
  • OFC: payoff
  • Striatum: effort
  • PFC: reward probability
  • dorsolateral PFC: restraint
Term
D1 direct pathway
Definition
  • Dopaminergic pathway
  • Projects from VTA
  • Reinforcement
Term
Evidence for neural representation of reinforcement
Definition
  • Rats will make a response that stimulates D1 receptors (via optogenetics) in the direct pathway
  • Rats avoid stimulating D2 pathway
Term
Role of dopamine in reward
Definition
  • Reinforcement
  • Experience of reward
  • Expectancy
Term
Prediction error signal
Definition
  • Difference between obtained reward and expected reward
  • Represented by DA activity
Term
Positive prediction error
Definition
  • Obtained reward is greater than expected reward
  • More DA activity
  • Extinguishes once reward comes to be expected
  • e.g., monkeys getting juice for a response
Term
Negative prediction error
Definition
  • Obtained reward is less than expected reward
  • Decreased DA activitt
Term
What is the role of prediction errors?
Definition
  • Learning
  • Positive prediction errors reflect classical conditioning
  • Once association (S-R-O) has been learned, no prediction error
    • Maintaining behaviour
  • Negative prediction errors reflect extinction learning
Term
What structure represents negative prediction error? How?
Definition
  • Lateral habenula
  • Increased activity with a negative prediction
  • Indirect projections to DA neurons in substantia nigra inhibit DA activity
Term
What is the mechanism of positive prediction error on reinforcement learning?
Definition
  • At the basal ganglia (esp. striatum)
  • Strengthens excitatory direct pathway (D1)
  • Strengthens inhibitory indirect pathway (D2), which disinhibits corticostriatal pathway
  • Promotes desired behaviour
Term
What is the mechanism of negative prediction error on reinforcement learning?
Definition
  • At the basal ganglia (esp. striatum)
  • Weakens excitatory direct pathway (D1)
  • Weakens inhibitory indirect pathway (D2), which inhibits corticostriatal pathway
  • Decreases a behaviour
Term
Executive control processes
Definition
  • Processes that allow us to manipulate the contents of working memory
  • Goal planning: includes selection of subtasks
  • Task management: multitasking
  • Attention and selection: updating WM as subtasks change
  • Monitoring: error monitoring and correcting
Term
Dynamic filtering
Definition
  • Switching tasks in response to change in goals
Term
Where does dynamic filtering occur?
Definition
  • Lateral PFC represents the goals
  • Top-down process to other structures
Term
Evidence that the lateral PFC represents goals/dynamic filtering
Definition
  • Lesions lead to deficits in decision making
    • Perseveration
    • Inability to see big picture
  • Imaging studies show that it amplifies task-relevant information and suppresses task-irrelevant information
Term
Describe dynamic filtering in older adults
Definition
  • PFC amplifies task-relevant information but does not suppress task-irrelevant information
  • Single dissociation
Term
What region is involved in goal monitoring?
Definition
  • Medial frontal cortex, ACC in particular
Term
Theories of goal monitoring systems
Definition
  1. Top of attentional control hierarchy
  2. Error detection
  3. Conflict monitoring
Term
Top of attentional hierarchy theory
Definition
  • Goal monitoring is foremost an attentional control process
  • Medial frontal cortex supervises attentional control
    • Increased activity when planning, errors, or responding
  • No proof or explanatory utility
Term
Error detection theory
Definition
  • Medial frontal cortex activity represents error and monitors performance (error-related negativity)
  • But doesn't explain how you know you've made a mistake
Term
Conflict monitoring theory
Definition
  • Integrates other theories on goal monitoring
  • Medial frontal cortex monitors current level of conflict--activation represents conflict
    • Conflict = number of choices; reflects task difficulty
    • Interacts with PFC
  • Allocates more attention when there is conflict
Term
Describe the dissociation of the roles of the PFC and medial frontal cortex in goal-directed behaviour
Definition
  • PFC: planning
  • ACC (in medial frontal): error/conflict monitoring
  • Interaction between systems as a cognitive control network
Term
Free will
Definition
  • At any given time, we can consciously choose to do one of many things
    • "Can" meaning that the choice is free from all restraints, including the laws of physics
    • See next point also
  • Choice (not properties of physical matter) determines which alternative is selected
Term
Determinism
Definition
  • Main argument against free will
  • Each state of the brain (e.g., cognition, behaviour) is governed by physics
  • Brain is organic and physical and must operate under the laws of physics
Term
Describe a study of free will
Definition
  • Libet 
  • Participants watched moving clock, moved whenever, and noted the time on the clock when they decided to move
  • Readiness potential ERP in M1 and motor association areas precedes conscious intention
Term
The hard problem
Definition
  • Consciousness is a phenomenologically subjective experience
  • Any relationship between physics and consciousness that we haven't detected could amplify and be the basis of free will
Term
Conclusion on the existence of free will
Definition
  • Can never prove definitively that it does not exist
  • Libet and others have provided evidence against
  • Unlikely violation of physics
  • Still, brain is a causal factor in behaviour--there is "approximately" no free will
Term
Social cognition
Definition
  • Cognitive processes underlying socially-appropriate goals and behaviours
  • Influenced by self-referential processing and social knowledge
  • Involves emotion, decision making, motivation
Term
Social knowledge
Definition
  • Thinking about others
  • Judgments
  • Rules and morals
Term
Higher-order sensory cortices (3)
Definition
  • Perceptual representation of stimuli and their features
  • Dorsolateral PFC
  • Ventrolateral PFC
  • Ventromedial PFC
Term
Areas important in social cognition because of association with emotion (5)
Definition
  • OFC
  • Amygdala
  • Striatum
  • Insula
  • ACC
Term
Insula
Definition
  • Proprioception
  • Integration of contexts, social cues, and other cognitive processes
Term
Default network
Definition
  • Distinct activity associated with self-referential processing
  • Active at baseline while self-referential thinking (e.g., daydreaming about the self)
  • Most active when thinking about the self
  • Brain regions are functionally and structurally connected
  • Crucial: medial PFC
Term
Region involved in self-referential processing
Definition
  • ACC (particularly ventral ACC)
Term
Positive illusion bias
Definition
  • Tendency to assume more positive attributes and circumstances of ourselves
  • ACC
    • Focuses attention on stimuli that are positive and self-relevant
    • Decreased activity when information about the self is negative
Term
Areas involved in theory of mind (6)
Definition
  • Medial PFC
  • Superior temporal gyrus
  • Superior temporal sulcus
  • Medial frontal lobe
  • Inferior parietal lobe
    • Temporo-parietal junction
  • Amygdala
Term
0-re-=4A!
Definition
Love, Pepper
Term
Simulation theory
Definition
  • Regions involved in the experience of emotion are also involved in perception of others' emotional states
  • "Mirroring system" involved in ToM
Term
Function of medial PFC in theory of mind
Definition
  • Non-specific reasoning about others' mental states
Term
Function of right temporo-parietal junction in theory of mind
Definition
  • Incorporation of social contexts into determining others' mental states
  • Moral judgments
    • See acts as permissable with rTMS
Term
Subregions of right temporo-parietal junction and their functions
Definition
  • Posterior right temporo-parietal junction
  • Intentions of others
  • Only active in false belief tasks
  • Anterior right temporo-parietal junction:
    • Orients attention to social cues
    • Guides behaviour
    • False belief tasks
    • Intentionality
Term
Function of superior temporal sulcus in theory of mind
Definition
  • Directs eye gaze to socially-relevant cues
Term
Hypothesized mechanism for social deficit in autism
Definition
  • Impaired default network
  • Also deficits in activity at regions related to ToM
Term
Role of the OFC in social knowledge
Definition
  • Elicits emotional states that bias social knowledge and guide social behaviour
  • Interacts with amygdala
  • Decision making
  • Moral judgments
  • Socially appropriate behaviour
Term
Describe patients with OFC lesions
Definition
  • Intact cognition and explicit social knowledge
  • Cannot apply social knowledge to own behaviour
  • Deficit in somatic marking of negative outcomes
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