Exam 12: Cognitive Control

Three main subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex are the

Dynamic filtering is one view of the prefrontal cortex, in which this area is a repository of representations and selects information most relevant to the current task.

Hypothetically, which of the following would represent a potential consequence of a population of children whose frontal lobes were far more developed than neurotypical children?

A patient with a frontal lobe lesion kneels and prays when watching another person do the same thing in the middle of the cafeteria. This is an example of

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

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

Which aspects of memory are compromised following damage to the frontal lobe? Which aspects are relatively unimpaired?

The supervisory attentional system, which seems to be localized to the ________ in the brain, becomes active during the Stroop task because this task requires ________.

At any given time, many different schema control units may be activated. However, we can rarely carry out more than one unit at a time and must select the most appropriate one to translate into action. The units are mutually inhibitory, and only the most activated one wins the competition for expression. This type of selection mechanism is called

The key function of the inferior temporal lobe is to evaluate response conflict.

Working memory has been called the ________ of the mind.

Which of the following best describes a real-life example of the delayed-response task?

You need to develop a plan for cleaning your room. Describe how a frontal lobe patient would struggle with this task.

Imagine that a frontal lobe patient meets a very good friend and his family doctor. Which of the two would this patient be able to engage more easily in a short conversation?

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

You conduct a single-cell recording study of a lateral prefrontal cortical cell while an animal performs a delayed-response task. Which of the following response profiles best matches the behavior of the cell if it is primarily involved in working memory function? (Each vertical line represents an action potential.)

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex involves ________ valuation, whereas dorsolateral prefrontal cortex involves more ________ valuation.

Primary reinforcers involve ________, whereas secondary reinforcers do not.

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

Thompson-Schill and colleagues (1997, 1998) conducted an experiment in which participants generated an appropriate verb in response to a presented noun. They found that the processing of nouns such as rope, which have many semantically associated verbs, elicited ________ activity in the inferior frontal cortex than did nouns such as scissors, which do not. This result supports the ________ hypothesis of inferior frontal lobe function.