Exam 9: Memory,attention,emotion,and Executive Functioning

Within the posterior parietal lobe attentional system,the pulvinar of the thalamus is believed to:

Those who live on a noisy street demonstrate habituation when they have grown accustomed to the sound and only notice when it is gone.

Patients with ventromedial damage often are encounter life difficulties due to poor:

Anterograde amnesia is:

Ullsperger and von Cramon (2004)pose that the anterior cingulate monitors self-generated actions,while the ____ monitors the outcome of goal-directed actions.

The role of the frontal cortex in attention relates to aspects of attentional:

Which of the following statements is true regarding the thalamus?

The ____________________ is a major brain structure implicated in memory functioning due to its role as a major source of cholinergic output to cortex.

The ____ has been implicated in arousal and attention.

The neurotransmitter posed to support the Posner's vigilance attention system is serotonin.

Disorders showing prominent attentional dysfunction include all of the following except:

The route of information through the Papez circuit is:

Structures that support declarative memory are probably evolutionarily and ontologically older and more primitive.

Memory is a fragile system.

Goldman-Rakic's line of investigation into working memory implicates the ____ in primate working memory.

Depression that is linked to damage of the dorsolateral cortex does not involve:

Anterograde amnesia is the loss of the ability to encode and learn information ____ a defined neurological trauma.

The basal forebrain structures implicated in memory include all of the following except:

The three major constellations of brain structures implicated in declarative memory include all of the following except:

Regarding Fuster's theory of prefrontal functioning,working memory is to retrospective memory as ____ is to prospective memory.