Brain areas

Question 1

Striatum

Answer 1

Involved in slow learning of patterns and procedures

Question 2

Median Temporal lobe

Answer 2

Another name for hippocampus - involved in consolidation and binding of memories (not storage)

Question 3

Lateral Interpositus Nucleus (LIP)

Answer 3

In the cerebellum, learns association for classical conditioning

Question 4

Red nucleus

Answer 4

In the midbrain, executes motor response in classical conditioning

Question 5

Anterior temporal lobe

Answer 5

Where we keep an index of semantic memory

Question 6

Pre-frontal cortex

Answer 6

Executive control, attention, goals etc

Question 7

Amygdala

Answer 7

Emotional processing - fear and threats

Question 8

Cerebellum

Answer 8

Involved in learning

Question 9

Episodic Buffer

Answer 9

Part of STM - keeping track of single events in current event, beginning, middle, end etc

In parietal lobe

Question 10

Phonological loop

Answer 10

store language and auditory related things “tape recorder”

In Broca and Wernicke area

Question 11

Visuospatial sketchpad

Answer 11

visual version of phonological loop- memorising patters and configuration

In Occipital lobe

Question 12

Central executive

Answer 12

Controls each “hub” of working memory AND
- Holds/shifts goal
- Dual tasks
- Manage & coordinate processes
- Keep relevant info handy

IN PFC

Question 13

Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)

Answer 13

• Monitors how you are doing at any given time
  Directs attention. Also active during incongruent phase of SCWT - error monitoring

Question 14

Temporal parietal junction

Answer 14

where DAN and VAN meet up

Question 15

DAN

Answer 15

Doral attention system which is goal driven - bilateral

Question 16

VAN

Answer 16

stimulus-driven effects, visual, emotion detecting, amygdala - right hemisphere only

Question 17

Engram

Answer 17

Memory traces - network (like a spider web across cortex)

Question 18

fusiform face area

Answer 18

An area we recruit when needing an expert level of recognition/identification

Question 19

Dorsal stream

Answer 19

Vision for action, involves parietal lobe and involved in location, movement, spatial transformations and relations

Question 20

Ventral stream

Answer 20

Vision for Conscious perception, involves temporal lobe, and responsible for colour, texture, pictorial detail, shape/size

Question 21

Area V1

Answer 21

Simple cells respond to edges at particular orientation at particular place. Damage = blindside

Question 22

Area 42

Answer 22

V2: Complex cells that might respond to edge at several places and have responses to corners or rudimentary shapes

Question 23

Area v4

Answer 23

Much more complex
Things begin to have shapes of objects. Damage = achromatopsia

Question 24

Area V5/MT

Answer 24

Motion processing. Damage = akinetopsia (either see things in snapshots or cant perceive moving things at all)

Question 25

Thalamus

Answer 25

Sensory relay station

Question 26

Lateral geniculate nucleus

Answer 26

Area of thalamus where visual info goes

Question 27

Order of cells in retina

Answer 27

Rode and cone - Horizontal cell - Bipolar cells - Amacrine cells - Ganglion cells

Question 28

Ganglion Cells

Answer 28

The last stop in the retina before the signal gets to the brain Takes all the incoming input, process it, and send the signals along the optic nerve to the brain

Question 29

Dorsolateral PFC

Answer 29

- Mostly active during preparation for Stroop Colour Word Test Attentional control

Question 30

Posterior cingulate cortex

Answer 30

Involved in DFM when accessing episodic memories