Exam 10: Attention

What role does the noradrenergic system play in attention?

Patients with hemineglect were asked to recall from memory landmarks they knew well.What did this research on their spatial memory reveal?

What condition would someone most likely have if they damaged their reticular activating system?

Biased competition is a mechanism that allows for filtering out distracting information.One important implication of this phenomenon is which of the following?

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Which of the below describes the typical manifestation of hemineglect?

Which of the statements below is true of bottom-up attentional selection?

Hemineglect syndrome is much more prominent and severe after damage to which brain hemisphere?

The following patient was told to draw a vertical line halfway through a long horizontal line, known as the line bisection task.Based on their response below, what type of clinical impairment would you say they have and why?

An air-traffic controller who must sustain their attention over long periods of time would rely most heavily on which neurotransmitter system to do their job well?

Based on research of divided attention, damage to which brain area would most likely disrupt your performance while multitasking?

Personal neglect is used to describe patients who…

Saliency maps allow for the swift detection of visual items among distractors.Which brain area plays a major role is constructing these maps?

You're walking down the street when someone on the sidewalk across the street suddenly screams.This sudden noise automatically grabs your attention and you reflexively look toward the location of the scream.This event would most strongly activate which area:

Which part of the brain plays an important important role in automatically orienting attention to particular locations in space?

Overactivation of the locus coeruleus would result in which of the following?

You are at a picnic with your family and talking to some of your cousins.Whenever politics is discussed you tune out and ignore this information.What kind of attention would you be employing here?

You have been studying hard for an upcoming exam when your mind begins to wander and you suddenly start day-dreaming.What attention network would most likely be activated during this experience?

Hemineglect syndrome is more severe when the right hemisphere is damaged.What is one possible explanation for this?

Which of the following is not a behaviour patients with neglect can exhibit: