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What are the three components of emotion? |
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- Feeling (subjective experience)
- Behaviour
- Physiology
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Which brain areas are involved in emotional learning? Describe the type of emotional learning of each. |
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- Amygdala: implicit learning
- Hippocampus: explicit learning
- (Also communication between the two)
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Implicit & explicit emotional learning |
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- Implicit: learning without conscious awareness
- Explicit: learning with conscious awareness
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What are the two pathways of fear conditioning? |
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- Low road pathway
- High road pathway
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- Thalamus to the amygdala signalling fear response
- Fast, priming responses that allow for rapid behavioural response
- Preparatory
- Cannot differentiate between stimuli
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- 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
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Potentiated conditioned response |
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- Occurs when you see the conditioned response from a pairing of a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus
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What is the effect of amygdala lesions on emotional learning? Support answer with a study. |
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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
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What is the effect of hippocampal lesions on emotional learning? |
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- 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
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- Fear response toward a stimulus caused by knowledge and vicarious experience, but not through direct experience
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What structure is involved in the acquisition of instructed fear? |
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- Amygdala
- Again, individuals have explicit knowledge that a stimulus will be threatening, but show no behavioural or physiological response when the stimulus is presented
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Give an example of an instructed fear paradigm |
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Definition
- "In some trials, a blue square stimulus will be paired with a shock"
- Participant expects an aversive stimulus in a particular condition
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Emotion and memory rely on communication between which two structures? Describe the nature of the functional connection. |
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Definition
- Amygdala & hippocampus
- Amygdala modulates hippocampal consolidation of memories
- Emotional tagging, salience
- Determines what you remember
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Describe a study looking at amygdala-hippocampus interaction |
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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
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What is the effect of cortisol on memory consolidation of conditioned fear responses? |
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Definition
- Enhances memory acquisition at moderate arousal levels
- High and low arousal impair memory via glucocorticoid receptors in the hippocampus
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What clinical disorder ties into fear and emotional memory? |
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- 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
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Describe PTSD in the context of amygdala-hippocamus interaction |
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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
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Describe a potential treatment method for PTSD |
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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
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Term
Brain region associated with (socially appropriate) decision making |
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Definition
- OFC
- Connected to emotion areas (e.g., amygdala)
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What is the mechanism of OFC damage in causing socially inappropriate behaviour? |
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- Lack of association (emotional memory) between inappropriate behaviour and the emotional consequence
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- Physiological changes in arousal
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Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis |
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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
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Name and describe a test of decision making |
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Definition
- Iowa gambling task
- "Bad decks" have larger magnitude gains but yield net losses
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How do patients with OFC damage perform on the Iowa gambling task? What are the implications? |
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Definition
- Continue to choose cards from decks that deal greater loss
- Implication: OFC involved in recognizing the changing patterns of reward and punishment
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Term
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Definition
- Negative affect resulting from making a voluntary choice that had better alternatives
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Where does regret occur in the brain? Support this answer with a research finding. |
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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
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How does the OFC guide future behaviour? |
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- Because we experience regret, we learn to be risk averse (i.e., make decisions that avoid risk)
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Processes that influence...
- Type of emotion experienced
- Subjective emotional experience
- When emotions will be experienced
- Expression of emotion
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Emotion regulation processes (2) |
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Definition
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Describe emotion regulation via reappraisal and the effects of this process |
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Definition
- Regulating the input of an emotional experience
- Alleviates negative affect
- Reduces behavioural responses to the emotion
- Minimal physiological toll
- Healthy
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Describe emotion regulation via suppression and the effects of this process |
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Definition
- Regulating the output of an emotional experience
- No effect on the emotional experience
- Increases sympathetic system's stress response
- Unhealthy
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Term
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- "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
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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
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Role of the amygdala in emotion regulation |
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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
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- Acquiring information through experience
- Represented through change in behaviour
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- Application of learning that facilitates the use of prior experience
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Where does reinforcement learning take place? |
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Stages of memory processing (3) |
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Definition
- Encoding
- Storage
- Retrieval
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Definition
- Acquisition (i.e., learning)
- Consolidation (i.e., memory stabilization)
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- Permanent record of learning is housed
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- Accessing and utilization of stored information
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Role of the hippocampus in memory |
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Definition
- Creation of new explicit memories
- Patient H.M.
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Term
Overarching types of memory (4) |
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Definition
- Sensory memory
- Working memory
- Short-term memory
- Long-term memory
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Definition
- Capacity
- Duration
- Encoding
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- Neural traces of sensory information
- Retain lots of information, but short-lived trace
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How long does iconic memory last? Echoic memory? |
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Definition
- Iconic: 300-500 ms
- Echoic: up to 10 sec
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Term
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Definition
- Neural activation in response to unexpected stimulus
- EEG or MEG
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Describe a study that measured duration of echoic memory |
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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
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What is the capacity and duration of short-term memory? |
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Definition
- 7 +/- 2 items
- Seconds to minutes
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Term
Atkinson and Schffrin's modal model |
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Definition
- Serial information processing
- Sensory register
- Short-term storage
- 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 |
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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
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- Manipulation of information from sensory, short-term, or long-term memory
- Maintenance of incoming information
- Limited capacity
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Baddeley's working memory hypothesis model |
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Definition
- Working memory is organized into a central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and episodic buffer
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- Control centre that...
- Coordinates interactions
- Shifts/divides attention
- Prevents errors
- Rehearses information
- Limited capacity
- Flexible
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- Storing and processing verbal information and speech
- Divided into two parts: phonological store and subvocal rehearsal mechanisms
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- Part of the phonological loop
- Verbal information
- Storage of word traces (i.e., articulatory processing)
- Rapid decay
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Subvocal rehearsal mechanisms |
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Definition
- Part of the phonological loop
- Helps prevent decay of information from WM by refreshing information
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Definition
- Storing and processing visual information, including...
- Spatial orientation
- Colour
- Shape
- Size
- Orientation
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Evidence for the phonological loop |
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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
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Evidence that the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad are distinct |
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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
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Term
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Definition
- Guides interaction with long-term memory
- Also interaction with semantic information
- Integration of information from various domains of perception
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Term
Types of long-term memory |
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Definition
- Explicit (also called declarative)
- Implicit
- Procedural
- Perceptual representation system (e.g., priming)
- Classical conditioning
- Nonassociative learning (e.g., habituation, sensitization)
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Term
Structures in the medial temporal lobe (5) |
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Definition
- Amygdala
- Hippocampus
- Parahippocampal cortex
- Entorhinal cortex
- Perirhinal cortex
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Term
Describe H.M.'s brain and memory deficits |
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Definition
- MTL almost entirely removed
- Severe anterograde amnesia
- Some retrograde amnesia
- Intact STM (dissociation)
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Implications of H.M. case study |
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Definition
- MTL crucial in the formation of long-term memories
- MTL not involved in short-term memory or storage of memories
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Term
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Definition
- Temporary amnesia following acute emotional or physical stress
- Related to damage of the hippocampus
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Definition
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Term
Distinguish recollection and familiarity |
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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
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Describe a study that looked at the neural representation of recollection and familiarity |
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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)
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Which structure is responsible for recollection retrieval? |
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Definition
- Hippocampus
- Encodes contextual information to aid later recollection
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Which structure is responsible for familiarity retrieval? |
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Definition
- Left perirhinal cortex
- Item-based encoding (specific to target itself) to aid later familiarity judgments
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Do we observe similar processing mechanisms during retrieval and encoding? |
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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
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Binding items and contexts (BIC) model |
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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
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Term
Areas involved in long-term memory |
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Definition
- Frontal cortex
- Various regions
- e.g., Broca's area
- Parietal cortex
- Cingulate cortex
- Retrosplenial
- Posterior cingulate cortex
- Anterior temporal system
- Posterior medial system
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2 system model of memory guided behaviour |
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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
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Term
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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)
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Definition
- Supports recollection-based memory (i.e., representations of context and information)
- Later stages of memory processing
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Term
Describe disorders that are associated with the anterior temporal and posterior medial systems |
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Definition
Anterior temporal
- Semantic dementia (impaired semantic memory)
Posterior medial
- Alzheimer's disease (impaired episodic memory)
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Term
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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)
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Theories of memory consolidation |
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Definition
- Standard consolidation theory
- Multiple trace theory
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Standard consolidation theory |
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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
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Problems with standard consolidation theory |
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Definition
- Research has demonstrated that consolidation for semantic and episodic information involves different processes
- Some patients have hippocampal damage but intact long-term memory
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Term
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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
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How does sleep affect consolidation? Support with a study |
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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
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Term
Define the following orientations of the brain: dorsal, ventral, anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, rostral, caudal, sagital, coronal, medial, lateral |
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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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What areas are associated with language? |
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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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Where is Wernicke's area? |
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- Posterior superior temporal gyrus
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Term
What areas in the right hemisphere are associated with language? What are their functions? |
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Definition
- Superior temporal sulcus
- Prosody
- Phonological information
- PFC, middle temporal gyrus, PCC
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Term
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Definition
- Deficit in language comprehension or production
- Usually due to left hemisphere damage
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Term
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Definition
- Difficulty controlling the muscles used in speech
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Definition
- Impairment in motor planning and programming of speech articulation
- Occurs when there is left hemisphere brain damage
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Definition
- i.e., Wernicke's aphasia
- Difficulty finding words
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Definition
- Defict lies in production of speech and comprehension of syntax
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Definition
- Loss of word meaning with retained comprehension of syntactic meaning
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- Deficits in speech comprehension
- Non-sensical speech
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What structure connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas? |
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Definition
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Term
What are the specializations of Wernicke's area? |
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Definition
- Sensory information
- Motor information
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Do lesions to Wernicke's area produce Wernicke's aphasia? |
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Definition
- Only sometimes
- Damage to Wernicke's area and arcuate fasciculus are predictive
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Areas involved in language comprehension |
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Definition
- As indicated last flashcard:
- Wernicke's area
- Arcuate fasciculus
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Levels of language organization |
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Definition
- Phoneme
- Morpheme
- Semantic
- Syntactic
- Discourse
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- Mental representation of information about words
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What are the steps involved in language processing? |
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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
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Describe 3 models of the mental lexicon of semantic representation |
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Definition
- Co-occurance of words primes each other
- Semantic features/properties are represented
- Semantic network model
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Term
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Definition
- Collins & Loftus
- Word meanings are represented in conceptual nodes that are connected to each other
- Model is based on the association between words
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What phenomena support the semantic network model? |
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Definition
- Dyslexia
- Semantic paraphasia
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Definition
- Difficulty with visual recognition of words
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Term
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- Impaired reading of words, non-words, and unknown words
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Definition
- Substitution of a word that is similar in meaning
- Occurs in Wernicke's aphasia
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Term
According to Warrington, what property yields different (neural) semantic representations? |
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Definition
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Term
What regions beget semantic representation of animals? |
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Definition
- Lateral fusiform gyrus
- Superior temporal sulcus
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Term
What regions beget semantic representation of tools? |
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Definition
- Medial fusiform gyrus
- Left middle temporal gyrus
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Term
Describe semantic representations of living and non-living objects |
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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
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What region represents semantic information of living things? |
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Definition
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Region involved in specific-level naming |
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Definition
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Region involved in domain-level naming |
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Definition
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What are the two pathways for linguistic input? |
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Definition
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How do we recognize individual words in speech? |
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Definition
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- Rhythm, stress, intonation
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- Emphasis on word syllables signals where the word begins/ends
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Regions associated with recognition of speech sounds |
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Definition
- Superior temporal lobe (both hemispheres)
- Primary auditory cortex
- Auditory association areas
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Term
Pure word deafness (& how it is caused) |
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Definition
- Difficulty recognizing speech sounds but not other sounds
- Caused by bilaterial lesions of the superior temporal lobe
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Term
Is A1 specific to speech sounds, or non-specific? |
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Definition
- Non-specific
- Ascending system (see next)
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Term
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Definition
- As you move away from A1, specificity (for speech sounds vs. written word) increases
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Term
Regions associated with language comprehension of spoken input |
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Definition
- Superior anterior gyrus
- Superior temporal gyrus
- Superior temporal sulcus
- These specifically relate to phonological information
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Term
Computational model of visual letter recognition |
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Definition
- McClelland and Rumelhart
- 3 levels of representation occurring in parallel
- Features of letters & words
- Letters of words
- Representation of words
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Evidence for computational model of visual letter recognition |
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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
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Regions associated with language comprehension of written input |
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Definition
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Evidence for the involvement of the occipitotemporal cortex in comprehension of written input |
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Definition
- Lesions cause pure alexia (inability to read words)
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When does language comprehension occur? |
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Definition
- Both at lower-level representations (e.g., sensory input, features) and higher-level (e.g., context)
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Definition
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Models of word comprehension (3) |
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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
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Term
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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
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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
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Term
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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
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Term
Cross-modal priming study |
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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
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Term
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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
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ERPs observed with syntactic processing |
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Definition
- P600 in parietal cortex (i.e., syntactic positive shift)
- Left anterior negativity (LAN) in the frontal cortex
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Definition
- P600 also called syntactic positive shift
- Occurs when hear/read syntactic errors or a semantic violation
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ERP associated with semantic processing |
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Definition
- N400 in parietal cortex
- Occurs whether reading or hearing semantic errors
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What does ASL tell us about neural organization of language? |
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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)
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Cortical language circuit of speech comprehension |
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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
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Functions of Broca's area |
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Definition
- Integration of semantic, syntactic, phonological processing
- Speech perception
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Areas important for semantic processing |
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- Broca's area
- Premotor cortex
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Areas important for word meaning processing |
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Definition
- Medial temporal gyrus
- Anterior superior temporal gyrus
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Areas important for phonetic processing |
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Definition
- Anterior superior temporal gyrus
- Posterior superior temporal gyrus
- Superior temporal sulcus
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Models of speech production |
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Definition
- Levelt's model
- Dell model
- (Differ on how semantic, syntactic, and phonological information are combined for speech production)
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Definition
- Modular model
- Serial processing
- Macroplanning: plan what to say
- Microplanning: choose words and grammar to execute plan
- Conceptualization of what you want to say
- Representations are activated
- Syntactic information is represented
- Word forms and associated syntactic adjustments (e.g., making word plural) are activated
- Selection of phonemes to use
- (Tip of the tongue)
- Articulation and speech production
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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
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Definition
- Mixing up phonemes
- Not to be confused with tip of the tongue
- Evidence that we don't plan one word at a time
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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)
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What do studies in epileptic patients tell us about speech production? |
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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)
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Term
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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
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Definition
- Stimulus-response-outcome
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Definition
- Behavioural responses are produced to achieve a goal
- S-R-O
- Outcome driven, response also emphasized
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Definition
- Automatic responses are produced regardless of outcome
- S-R-O
- Stimulus driven
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What mental skills are required for goal-directed behaviour? |
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Definition
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Executive control processes |
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Definition
- Manipulate the contents of working memory (with regard to goal-directed behaviour)
- Planning
- Task management
- Attention
- Monitoring
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Term
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Definition
- Regions in the PFC
- Lateral prefrontal
- Frontal pole
- Medial frontal
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Evidence that PFC is involved in cognitive control/goal-directed behaviour |
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Definition
- Unilateral lesions--small deficits to WM and in perseveration
- Bilateral lesions--severe deficit in goal-directed behaviour and motivation
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Representation of goal-directed behaviour |
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Definition
- Sustained activity in PFC during delay period (without stimuli)
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Evidence for goal-directed activity in PFC |
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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
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Describe the neural representation of goals |
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Definition
- Sustained PFC activity
- Draws resources from memory
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Definition
- Goal-directed
- Maintain and manipulate goals
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Definition
- Goal-directed
- Representation and integration of details (e.g., overarching goals, memories)
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What factors play into a decision? |
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Definition
- Value
- Effort
- Cost
- Payoff
- Context
- Preference
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What regions represent value? |
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Definition
- OFC: payoff
- Striatum: effort
- PFC: reward probability
- dorsolateral PFC: restraint
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Definition
- Dopaminergic pathway
- Projects from VTA
- Reinforcement
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Evidence for neural representation of reinforcement |
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Definition
- Rats will make a response that stimulates D1 receptors (via optogenetics) in the direct pathway
- Rats avoid stimulating D2 pathway
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Role of dopamine in reward |
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Definition
- Reinforcement
- Experience of reward
- Expectancy
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- Difference between obtained reward and expected reward
- Represented by DA activity
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Positive prediction error |
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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
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Negative prediction error |
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Definition
- Obtained reward is less than expected reward
- Decreased DA activitt
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What is the role of prediction errors? |
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Definition
- Learning
- Positive prediction errors reflect classical conditioning
- Once association (S-R-O) has been learned, no prediction error
- Negative prediction errors reflect extinction learning
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What structure represents negative prediction error? How? |
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Definition
- Lateral habenula
- Increased activity with a negative prediction
- Indirect projections to DA neurons in substantia nigra inhibit DA activity
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What is the mechanism of positive prediction error on reinforcement learning? |
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Definition
- At the basal ganglia (esp. striatum)
- Strengthens excitatory direct pathway (D1)
- Strengthens inhibitory indirect pathway (D2), which disinhibits corticostriatal pathway
- Promotes desired behaviour
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What is the mechanism of negative prediction error on reinforcement learning? |
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Definition
- At the basal ganglia (esp. striatum)
- Weakens excitatory direct pathway (D1)
- Weakens inhibitory indirect pathway (D2), which inhibits corticostriatal pathway
- Decreases a behaviour
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Term
Executive control processes |
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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
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Definition
- Switching tasks in response to change in goals
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Where does dynamic filtering occur? |
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Definition
- Lateral PFC represents the goals
- Top-down process to other structures
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Evidence that the lateral PFC represents goals/dynamic filtering |
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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
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Describe dynamic filtering in older adults |
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Definition
- PFC amplifies task-relevant information but does not suppress task-irrelevant information
- Single dissociation
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What region is involved in goal monitoring? |
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Definition
- Medial frontal cortex, ACC in particular
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Theories of goal monitoring systems |
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Definition
- Top of attentional control hierarchy
- Error detection
- Conflict monitoring
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Top of attentional hierarchy theory |
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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
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Term
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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
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Conflict monitoring theory |
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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
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Term
Describe the dissociation of the roles of the PFC and medial frontal cortex in goal-directed behaviour |
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Definition
- PFC: planning
- ACC (in medial frontal): error/conflict monitoring
- Interaction between systems as a cognitive control network
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Term
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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
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Term
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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
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Describe a study of free will |
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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
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Term
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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
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Conclusion on the existence of free will |
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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
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Term
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Definition
- Cognitive processes underlying socially-appropriate goals and behaviours
- Influenced by self-referential processing and social knowledge
- Involves emotion, decision making, motivation
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Term
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Definition
- Thinking about others
- Judgments
- Rules and morals
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Term
Higher-order sensory cortices (3) |
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Definition
- Perceptual representation of stimuli and their features
- Dorsolateral PFC
- Ventrolateral PFC
- Ventromedial PFC
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Areas important in social cognition because of association with emotion (5) |
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Definition
- OFC
- Amygdala
- Striatum
- Insula
- ACC
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Term
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Definition
- Proprioception
- Integration of contexts, social cues, and other cognitive processes
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Term
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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
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Region involved in self-referential processing |
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Definition
- ACC (particularly ventral ACC)
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Term
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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
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Term
Areas involved in theory of mind (6) |
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Definition
- Medial PFC
- Superior temporal gyrus
- Superior temporal sulcus
- Medial frontal lobe
- Inferior parietal lobe
- Temporo-parietal junction
- Amygdala
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Definition
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- Regions involved in the experience of emotion are also involved in perception of others' emotional states
- "Mirroring system" involved in ToM
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Function of medial PFC in theory of mind |
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Definition
- Non-specific reasoning about others' mental states
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Function of right temporo-parietal junction in theory of mind |
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Definition
- Incorporation of social contexts into determining others' mental states
- Moral judgments
- See acts as permissable with rTMS
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Term
Subregions of right temporo-parietal junction and their functions |
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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
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Term
Function of superior temporal sulcus in theory of mind |
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Definition
- Directs eye gaze to socially-relevant cues
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Term
Hypothesized mechanism for social deficit in autism |
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Definition
- Impaired default network
- Also deficits in activity at regions related to ToM
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Role of the OFC in social knowledge |
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Definition
- Elicits emotional states that bias social knowledge and guide social behaviour
- Interacts with amygdala
- Decision making
- Moral judgments
- Socially appropriate behaviour
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Term
Describe patients with OFC lesions |
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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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