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Attention Flashcards

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Posner cuing test

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On a screen with a fixation point, a cue appears directing which way the participant should shift their attention. A target then appears on screen afterwards

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Invalid Posner cuing test trial

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Cue points to the opposite side of the screen where the target will appear

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Valid Posner cuing test trial

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Cue points to the same side of the screen where the target will appear

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Neutral Posner cuing test trial

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Cue points to either side of the screen

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How do reaction times change for valid and invalid trails

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Invalid trials have a much longer response time than valid trials, while neutral trials are in the middle

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Reflexive capture of attention

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On a screen with a fixation point, an unexpected stimulus pops up. After a delay, a target appears.

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How do short delays affect reaction time in reflexive capture of attention

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Short delays enhance reaction time in valid trials

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How do long delays affect reaction time in reflexive capture of attention

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Long delays cause slower reaction time in valid trials
- Have a faster reaction time for invalid trials than valid trials

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Endogenous/top-down attention

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Cuing yourself to redirect your attention (looking for somebody you know is coming from the other side of the street)

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Exogenous/bottom-up attention

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An external unexpected stimulus causes you to redirect your attention

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Timeline and intensity of endogenous attention

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Endogenous attention happens slowly, but can be maintained for longer periods of time

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Timeline and intensity of exogenous attention

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Exogenous attention happens rapidly, but fades very quickly unless the stimulus is important

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Feature search

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Looking for a single attribute (looking for a yellow object or looking for a square object)

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Conjunction search

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Looking for two or more attributes at the same time (looking for a yellow circle or a green square)

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Reaction time differences for feature and conjunction search

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  • Feature search has the fastest reaction time
  • Conjunction search with a present target is slower than feature search
  • Conjunction search with the target absent takes the longest time
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Event related potentials

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EEGs of multiple trials are averaged
- Earlier waveforms in the ERP are exogenous attention cues
- Later waveforms in the ERP are endogenous attention cues

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N1 effect

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Large negativity in the ERP occurring about 100 ms after presentation of a stimulus, which is enhanced for input we consciously direct our attention to

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P3 effect

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Large positivity in the ERP occuring 300-500 ms after presentation of a stimulus, which is associated with higher order processing and late selection effect of auditory stimuli

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P1 effect

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Large positivity in the ERP that occurs 70-100 ms after presentation of a stimulus, which is enhanced for VISUAL input we consciously direct our attention to

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How does covert orientation of attention affect neural processing and detection

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Valid cues that covertly direct attention toward a stimulus significantly enhance neural processing and detection shown by enhancements in P1 and N1 components in the ERP

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N2pc effect

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Second negativity after stimulus presentation that is triggered at occipitotemporal sites contralateral to visual target; reflects selective processing of targets

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Pd effect

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Large positivity associated with ignoring distractors

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What ERP changes are observed when a participant is asked to attend to one stimulus and ignore another

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N2pc is seen and associated with covert attention when instructed to focus on the red line, while Pd was a different ERP component associated with ignoring distractors

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Information from which hemiretina crosses over

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Nasal hemiretina

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Information from which hemiretina stays ipsilateral

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Temporal hemiretina

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What do PET and fMRI scans show us about attention

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Brain regions that process key aspects of the visual stimuli show an enhancement of activity

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How does brain activity differ when covert attention is directed to one stimulus versus dividing it between two stimuli

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Covert attention to one stimuli resulted in enhanced activity in one region of visual cortex; attention to two stimuli resulted in enhanced activity in two corresponding regions of the visual cortex

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What are some ways attention can change the activity of individual neurons?

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  • Enhanced or suppressed response: neurons fire either more or less in response to possible stimuli
  • Tuning to more specific stimuli: neurons only fire for a smaller range of stimuli
  • Tuning to favor different stimulus: neurons fire for different stimuli
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Effect of preferred vs. ineffective visual stimuli within a receptive field on neuron activity

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When attention was directed toward an ineffective stimulus within a receptive field without shifting gaze, rates of firing for a neuron were significantly diminished compared to a preferred stimulus

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How can attention affect receptive fields

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Covertly shifting attention within a receptive field without shifting gaze can shift peak sensitivity within a receptive field (as well as shrink receptive field to reduce distractors)

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Superior colliculus and attention

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Directs visual gaze and visual attention to intended stimuli (compared to covert stimuli)

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Pulvinar and attention

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Important for orienting and shifting attention; directs and synchronizes relevant information in response to attentional demands

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Frontal eye field

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Area in the frontal lobe that establishes gaze based on cognitive goals

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Dorsal frontoparietal system

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Intraparietal sulcus and frontal eye field; cognitive control of voluntary attention

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Right temporoparietal system

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Temporoparietal junction, ventral frontal cortex; reflexive capture of attention

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ER-fMRI

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Event related fMRI; links rapid behavioral events to changes in activity of selected brain regions

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What brain patterns were seen in ER-fMRIs when directing voluntary attention

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Enhanced activity in the frontal eye field and intraparietal sulcus

38
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What brain activity is seen when unexpected stimuli appear

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Regardless of the location of the stimulus (right of left), brain activity is enhanced in the right temporoparietal junction when shifting attention to a new location

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Connection between IPS and TPJ systems

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Allow for shift of attention between intended objects of attention as well as novel stimuli

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What is hemispatial neglect

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Failure to pay attention to objects presented to one side of the body

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How does hemispatial neglect prove a lateralization of attention

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People with hemispatial neglect ignore things on the left, reinforcing the idea of specialized attentional mechanisms in the right hemisphere
- Only drawing the right side of objects
- Failure to eat food on the left side of their plate
- Won’t dress the left side of their body

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What similarity in brain areas can be seen between people with hemispatial neglect and the cortical attention network

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The areas lesioned in hemispatial neglect greatly overlap with the frontoparietal attention network

43
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Name 2-3 aspects of consciousness

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  • Theory of mind
  • Mirror recognition
  • Imitation
  • Empathy and emotion
  • Tool use
  • Language
  • Metacognition (considering the content of our own thoughts and cognitions)
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Default mode

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State of the brain when it’s awake, at rest. Most activated when we are introspective and reflective as opposed to focusing on external sitmuli (daydream network)

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What parts of the brain have reduced activity when unconscious

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A frontoparietal network including:
- Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- Medial frontal cortex
- Posterior parietal cortex
- Posterior cingulate

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Claustrum

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Grey matter in between the external and extreme capsule

47
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What role does the claustrum play in consciousness

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Its reciprocal connections with almost every area of the cortex lead to stimulation of the claustrum causing a switching off of conscious awareness

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Evidence that unconscious people can communicate

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Two different mental images were used to create distinct yes or no patterns of brain activity; patients in a deep vegetative state showed similar brain activity when answering questions when compared to control subjects

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Easy problem of consciousness

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Understanding how particular patterns of neural activity can create specific conscious experiences

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Hard problem of consciousness

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How to read people’s subjective experience of consciousness

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Brain activity reflecting the easy problem of consciousness

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Being able to interpret patterns of brain activity as responses to certain images or being asked to reconstruct a simple shape

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Brain activity reflecting the hard problem of consciousness

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Being able to tell what color a person was looking at based off brain activity, but not knowing what it feels like in another person’s mind
- Can both identify a color as red but the color red might look different to two different people

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Evidence for a lack of free will

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Participants are shown a screen flashing a random sequence of letters, and are asked to recall what letter was on the screen when they pressed a button on either the right or left
- Based on brain activity in decision making regions, scientists are able to predict which button participants will press up to 10 seconds before they press the button

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What major brain region separates humans from other animals

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The prominence of our prefrontal cortex (PFC) compared to the rest of our cerebral cortex

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Phineas Gage

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A man who underwent drastic behavioral changes after extreme damage to his frontal lobe

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Wisconsin card sorting test

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Sort a card into a category based on rules that change every 10 seconds

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How does PFC damage affect performance on the Wisconsin card sorting task

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PFC damage makes it hard to adapt to the changing rules; they keep sorting cards according to previous rules

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Dysexecutive syndrome

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Diminished judgement and planning, diminished self care, motor programming deficits

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Disinhibited syndrome

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Stimulus driven behavior, diminished social insight, distractibility

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Apathetic syndrome

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Diminished spontaneity, diminished verbal output, increased response latency

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Prefrontal brain region affected in dysexecutive syndrome

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Dorsolateral prefrontal

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Prefrontal brain region affected in disinhibited syndrome

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Orbitofrontal prefrontal

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Prefrontal brain region affected in apathetic syndrome

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Mediofrontal

64
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Stroop task

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Read aloud color names printed in the same color (the word blue printed in blue) or incongruent color (the word blue printed in white)

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Controlled oral word association test

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Saying as many words as possible that start with a specific letter

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Effect of cooling brain regions on delay tasks

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Cooling the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex leads to a decrease in correct answers of a delay task compared to cooling the posterior parietal cortex

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