Exam 12: Cognitive Control

A monkey is taught that food is associated with a stimulus card that has a star on it. After training, the animal receives a lesion to the lateral prefrontal cortex. The monkey's memory for the food-stimulus card association is then tested by presenting the animal with the two stimulus cards diagrammed here. How will the monkey now respond?

The ventromedial zone is also known as (the)

Switching tasks requires maintenance but not manipulation of information in working memory.

An experiment that requires participants to respond based on one goal, such as naming digits, on some trials and another goal, such as naming letters, on other trials is an example of a(n) ________ paradigm.

The information that you are currently thinking about, perceiving, or using to guide responding is held in this type of memory store.

In the task-switching experiment involving a digit task and a letter task, a digit or letter response was indicated by a word or by a color. Which of these conditions was particularly problematic when switching between digits and letters for frontal lobe patients?

With which of the following is prediction error NOT correlated?

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

In a delayed response task, participants were asked to look at faces or scenes or engage in passive viewing. Which of the following results distinguished older adults from young adults when viewing faces relative to passive viewing?