Exam 8: Attention and Consciousness

Vivid dreams occur during which stage of sleep?

As long as the neural wiring of your brain is intact, you will be in a conscious state.

While fixating on a central cross, a box to the right of the cross lights up, drawing your attention to the box. This is an example of:

Complete integration of information across the entire brain could lead to enhanced human cognitive abilities.

Intralaminar nuclei are distributed throughout the cortex and are not restricted to any one _____ function

In an oddball paradigm, a ______ is inserted into a series of standard stimuli.

The information integration theory applied to an individual with normal consciousness could be compared to:

Low-frequency brain activity will show on an EEG if a patient is:

Neurons respond to certain specific stimuli. We call this:

An insect suddenly flying past your face and drawing your attention away from the television would be an example of a _______ shift in attention.

Local field potential is the sum of electrical fields generated by neurons:

Endogenous attention involves an individual:

Inattentional blindness occurred during the gorilla experiment because the participants were focused instead on:

While ensembles of neurons are competing for attention to external cues, attention can still be directed by internal:

The lateral and medial prefrontal and parietal cortex are critical areas for:

Large populations of neurons are called:

What seemingly obvious act may happen if you simply are not attending to the situation?

According to global workspace theory, a primary role for consciousness is in _____ actions of different units.

Compare and contrast the global workspace theory and the information integration theory.

The biased-competition model of attention states that the various sensory inputs are: