LECTURE 12 - EXECUTIVE FUNCTION Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Executive Function
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- Sequencing and planning
- Problem solving
- Inhibition
- Monitoring
- “higher-order thinking”
Frontal lobe is one of the last areas to develop
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Tower of London Task
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Involves planning ahead
READ SLIDES
Patients with frontal lobe damage take
more moves than necessary to complete the task - high accuracy on “Have you seen this item?” But low accuracy on “What order were these items presented in?”
3
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Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
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Perseverating
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Inhibition
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- When a stimulus has a response strongly associated with it, we call that a “prepotent response”
- We experience conflict when a given situation calls for us to not use the prepotent response
- To respond appropriately, we have to engage cognitive control to inhibit the prepotent response
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Environmental dependency syndrome
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Can sometimes respond to stimuli in the environment with something like a prepotent response, without taking into account the larger context
6
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The ERN
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- Negative-going ERP
- Increased for:
- Errors vs. correct
- Bigger errors vs. smaller errors
- Thought to originate in the anterior
cingulate cortex (ACC) - Associated with error monitoring
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Error Monitoring
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- Associated with error monitoring
- Activation when you make an error
- Sensitive to how costly the error is
- Larger response when you make a BIG
mistake
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