Deck 14: Cognitive Control

Question 1

What role does the thalamus play in PFC activity?

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

How does the feedback-related negativity differ from the ERN?

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

The medial prefrontal cortex has been associated with which functions? (Check all that apply.)

A)Error detection
B)Task maintenance
C)Inhibition
D)Conflict monitoring

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which best characterizes perseveration on the Wisconsin Card-Sorting Task that can follow from damage to the PFC?

A)Difficulty comprehending feedback
B)Difficulty changing one's established rule for sorting
C)Difficulty remembering task instructions
D)Difficulty establishing a rule for sorting at the beginning of the experiment

Question 5

What is the ERN (or Ne)? List three theories that have been used to explain why it comes about.

Question 6

If a patient wearing a hat walked into a room, saw a different hat on a hook, and put this second hat on her head (while still wearing the first), she would be exhibiting _____.

Question 7

Define the reward prediction error signal. What neurotransmitter system is most strongly associated with "broadcasting" this signal to many parts of the brain?

Question 8

Describe three behavioral tendencies that can result from damage to the lateral PFC.

Question 9

If a computational model only received a signal that the output it had produced was correct or incorrect, it would be learning via what type of mechanisms?

Question 10

Associate the following states of the PFC with hypothesized control-related functions: maintenance of task rule _____-state; update task rule _____-state

Question 11

Contrast the roles of the dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in cognitive control.

Question 12

The auditory evoked potential (AEP) has been used to index what two critical functions of the PFC?

Question 13

Describe the Wisconsin Card-Sorting Task. What is one of the primary behaviors that a patient with PFC damage would exhibit on this task?

Question 14

What are the three critical aspects of Rougier's model of PFC function?

Question 15

Describe PFC bistability. How is this affected by the midbrain dopamine system?

Question 16

Describe how neuronal oscillations might be important for implementing cognitive control.

Question 17

What are two mechanistic accounts for the A-not-B error? How has computational modeling been used to support one of these two accounts?

Question 18

Cognitive control involves multiple cognitive operations. Name three of them.

Question 19

What behavior is a person exhibiting when they continue to perform a task in a certain way, despite being given feedback that they are doing it wrong?

A)Utilization behavior
B)A-not-B error
C)Reward prediction error
D)Perseveration

Question 20

What is the A-not-B error?