Exam 13: Cognitive Control

The idea that the prefrontal cortex filters out and inhibits irrelevant information is supported by the ERP findings of Knight and Grabowecky (1995),who found that patients with prefrontal lesions produced ________ in response to ignored tones during a dichotic listening task.

People with frontal lobe damage will likely have trouble with

Based on what you know about the possible role of the prefrontal cortex in attention,which of the following do you think best predicts the performance of a patient with damage to this area on the Stroop task?

Which of the following statements best describes the anatomical connectivity of the prefrontal lobes to the rest of the brain?

You are testing a patient with bilateral injury to the lateral prefrontal cortex on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.After she successfully learns that the sorting rule is based on color,you change the required sorting strategy to another stimulus dimension: shape.Which of the following best describes the way this participant will respond to the change in sorting strategy?

Focal injuries of the prefrontal cortex generally produce all of the following cognitive changes or symptoms EXCEPT

One reason that the frontal pole has received less experimental attention than the lateral prefrontal cortex is because

The human analog of the delayed-response task that is used as a test of cognitive development in human infants is the ________ task.

One conceptualization of the prefrontal cortex,offered by Shimamura (2000),that could explain the seemingly disparate set of impairments associated with damage to this area is that

Lesions of the lateral prefrontal cortex disrupt ________ memory but not ________ memory.

Jeff knows that Phineas Gage lived in Vermont.He cannot remember where and when he acquired this knowledge,however.He is having difficulty accessing his episodic,or ________,memory.

Three main subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex are the

You have just been introduced to two people,one of whom suffers from a frontal lobe syndrome and the other from visual agnosia.However,you do not know which person is which.Describe some questions or tasks that you could use to determine which person has the frontal lobe syndrome and which one has visual agnosia.

For situations in which no routine procedure can be used to generate an appropriate response,this type of mechanism is used to select the best schema control unit for translation into action.

A monkey that has previously received a lesion in the lateral prefrontal cortex is shown two food wells,each of which is covered by a marked stimulus card: As the monkey watches,a food reward is placed into the left well and then both wells are covered.If the monkey is now allowed to retrieve the food reward immediately,it will

The n-back task requires maintenance but not manipulation of information in working memory.

The most caudal part of the frontal lobe contains the ________ region.

A task commonly used with adults to examine perseveration behavior is the

Which of the following is NOT a situation that you would expect to engage the supervisory attentional system?

Prefrontal areas likely are a temporary repository for representations accessed from other neural sites.