Exam 12: Cognitive Control

The error-related negativity (ERN) has been localized to the anterior cingulate cortex.

People with frontal lobe lesions are often impaired in organizing and segregating events in memory.

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

Neuroimaging experiments have demonstrated that working memory engages the

Is there more than one decision system? Provide evidence to support your view.

While the ________ will be most active during the encoding of a face stimulus, the ________ will be active during the delay period.

You are driving around town. Which of the following stops will require the most working memory?

Describe the supervisory attentional system. What brain area is thought to be involved? Describe neuroimaging studies that support your view.

Provide an example of a delayed-response task. How has this task informed our understanding of the prefrontal cortex?

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

Which of the following is NOT a gradient along which the prefrontal cortex is organized?

Imagine that a frontal lobe patient meets a very good friend and his family doctor. Describe how the patient's conversation would differ between the two. Is this similar or different to the way in which a person without frontal lobe damage would communicate with them?

Which of the following processes would LEAST involve cognitive control?

Describe the components of valuation.

John is unable to carry on the most rudimentary conversations. Whenever someone changes the subject he persists on the same topic for several minutes. Eventually, people simply leave him alone, talking to himself. John has

You encounter a bear, which triggers an emotional response. Which of the following areas would not show increased dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway?

How do the ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices differ in terms of valuation? Give an example.

Which of the following situations would be most likely to engage the anterior cingulate cortex?

Although the prefrontal cortex is not essential for working memory, it is particularly important for the storage of associative knowledge.

________ theories describe what people ought to do, whereas ________ theories describe what people actually do.