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The field of ________ is based on the idea that perception and thought employ mental representations that undergo transformations as they are used.

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cognitive psychology

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What are the two possible errors in causal reasoning from a correlation?

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wrong direction
missing third variable

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what are the 4 methods for measuring the brain?

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lesion, stimulation activation/deactivation, electrophysiological/magnetic recordings, brain imaging

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what is a lesion study?

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Psychological/behavioral testing of patients with neurological
disorders or damage to understand the organization
of mind and brain

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what are two types of lesion study cases?

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single case studies
group studies

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what do lesion studies establish?

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Establish nature of impairments following focal
lesions

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true or false? if false, correct the statement

as a scientist, you can perform a single and or a double disassociation

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true

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what do patient’s with lesion in Broca’s area experience?

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difficulty processing language; could understand language well but had trouble speaking fluently

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what do patient’s with lesion in Wernicke’s area experience?

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difficulty comprehending information/language; could speak fluently but words meant nothing

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what are the advantages of lesion studies?

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  • “Natural experiment”: suggests causal role for brain
    area in particular cognitive function.
  • Double dissociations provide strong evidence for
    separable processes (e.g. Broca’s versus Wernicke’s,
    production vs. comprehension)
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what are the disadvantages of lesion studies?

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-Not a controlled experiment
-Damage not always localized; many functions can be
impaired
-Neuropsychological tests based on narrow demographic
samples
-Can you make inferences about normal function?
-Plasticity, recovery (repaired brain not = normal brain)

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how would you perform a temporary “lesions”? (2 ways talked about in lecture)

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cortical stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation

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this image is an example of _____

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cortical stimulation

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this image is an example of _____

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deep brain stimulation

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what was the work of Wilder Penfield? What was his contribution to the field?

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used electrical stimulation to map out functions for different areas in the brain

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what happens during transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)? who can TMS be done on?

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Magnetic field outside the skull induces electric field inside skull that can disrupt normal brain activity; on healthy voluntary humans

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what are the advantages of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?

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-high spatial resolution
-high temporal resolution (very brief)
-can be used repeatedly
-provides information about causal role of brain area in particular
perceptual/cognitive/motor function

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what are the disadvantages of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?

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-mainly restricted to brain regions close to the skull (you cant reach deep brain areas like the hippocampus)

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True or false? if false, correct the statement

you can measure causation with TMS

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true

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what happens during electrophysiological recordings (EEG)?

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an investigator measures response properties of single cells by inserting a thin electrodes into an animal’s (or human’s) brain and record extracellularly to determine which experimental
manipulations change the cell’s response

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What is event-related potential (ERP)?

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the measurement of a specific event and see how it changes relative to another event

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what happens during magnetoencephalography (MEG)?

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measures magnetic signals generated by neural activity

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what are the advantages of EEG and MEG?

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  • usually non-invasive
    -high temporal resolution
    -can be used repeatedly
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what are the disadvantages of EEG and MEG?

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-poor spatial resolution, don’t always know where signal is generated

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The technique known as ________ can be used to induce virtual lesions in humans.
TMS (transcranial megnetic stimulation)
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What is an advantage of MEG (magnetoencephalography) over EEG (electroencephalography)?
With MEG, magnetic fields are not distorted by brain tissue and the skull so there is better localization
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For a researcher to provide evidence that a brain area and cognitive function are associated, they could use a _____________ dissociation, however, to provide more substantial evidence about the function and function localization, they would need a ______________ dissociation.
single; double
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what are the two primary functional imaging techniques used in humans?
positron emission tomography (PET) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
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what does PET imaging measure?
measures local variations in blood flow
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how many tasks are given during a PET scan?
two
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true or false? if false, correct statement signal is never relative to a control condition
false; signal is always relative to a control condition
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what are MRIs used to study?
to see details of brain anatomy
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what is one big advantage to PET scans over fMRI?
you can measure things like neurotransmitter function
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what are fMRIs used to study?
brain function
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what are some main points for MRIs?
* strong magnetic field * protons align with magnetic field * radio wave perturbs alignment * detectors pick up the signal of protons returning to orientation of magnetic field * different tissues have diff densities of protons (gray/white matter) * changes in blood flow can also affect the local magnetic properties of tissue, which can be observed as changes in MRI signal (Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Signal (BOLD)
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in this scan, what makes up the white matter?
myelinated axons
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in this scan, what makes up the gray matter?
cell bodies and dendrites of neurons
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what is the purpose of fMRIs?
An indirect measure of neural activity
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MRIs can also be called ______ MRIs
structural
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what is the BOLD signal?
blood oxygen level dependent signal
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what is the hemodynamic response function?
the change in blood flow
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what is an advanatge of fMRI over PET scans?
PET scans take 30 seconds- 1 minute while fMRI takes a few seconds
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what is common between fMRIs and PETs
they share a subtraction logic
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what are the advantages of fMRI?
-excellent spatial resolution (1 to 10 mm -- PET not as good) – Better temporal resolution (fMRI – seconds, PET – minutes; both much worse than eeg/meg) – Does not require injection of radioactive tracer – More readily available to researchers broadly
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what are the advantages of PET?
Can assess more than blood flow (glucose metabolism, neurotransmitters)
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what are disadvantages of all functional imaging methods? (including EEG, MEG)?
They are essentially correlational, can show a region is more or less involved during a task, but not that it is critical for that task
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what is diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)?
Method for imaging fiber tracts(white matter): direction + integrity
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what can we do with diffusion tensor imaging DTI?
-Each fiber tract can be represented by a different color – We can localize different processes to their respective fiber tracts – Spot abnormalities found in white matter – Great art potential
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Which neuroimaging technique involves injecting an isotope of oxygen into the bloodstream and using it to measure regional cerebral blood flow?
PET (positron emission tomography)
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Which of the following neuroimaging techniques involves manipulating the orientation of protons?
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
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cognitive neuroscience is a combination of ....
cognitive psychology and neuroscience
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what is the stuff of thought?
representations which is the content of thought and how information is stored in the mind
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how does this thinking occur?
Process (or operations) which is the manipulation of mental representing, how info is transformed and mental mechanisms
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what did Sternberg conclude in his experiment of short term memory?
scanning process appears serial rather than parallel b/c RT increases as memory set size increases
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what were two variable thats Sternberg had in his experiment?
an independent and dependent variables
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what do experiments allow for?
they allow the investigator to manipulate one variable (independent) to determine the effect on another variable (dependent) to determine the casual relationship
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________ describe the relationships between variables, but cannot determine the cause
correlations
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in cognitive psychology, what do experimenters prefer?
experimental control
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a linear relationship between two variables
correlation
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what kind of correlation is this? as one variable increases, the other variable increases
positive correlation
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what kind of correlation is this? as one variable increases, the other variable decreases
negative correlation
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what are two topics in cognitive psychology that are often confused?
correlation and causation
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a relationship between two variables does not tell you which variable is the ______ variable
causal
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direction of casusality could be ..... 1. 2. 3.
1. A ------> B 2. A <------ B 3. A <------> B
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what is sometimes missed when determining the changes in both A and B in an experiment?
a hidden third variable (C)
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what is the only situation of manipulations the give you the ability to determine which variable is causal?
only controlled experimental manipulations
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Find the word: Disease or damage; intentional lesion -- e.g., stroke; head injury, tumor resection, experimental lesion in animals
Lesion
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Find the word: Non-invasive and invasive -- e.g., TMS; deep brain stimulation with electrodes, and tools to temporarily deactivate neural tissue (temporary lesions)
Stimulation Activation/Deactivation
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Find the word: Non-invasive and invasive -- e.g., single cell recording, or other intracranial recording; EEG, MEG (recorded from brain or scalp)
Electrophysiological/ Magnetic Recordings
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Find the word: Structural and functional -- e.g., PET; MRI, functional MRI; Note: These are typically “indirect” measure of brain activity and structure
brain imaging
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what are some causes of neurological/neurpsychological problems:
-Vascular disorders: stroke, hemorrhage -Tumor, resection -Degenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s (plaques & tangles), Parkinson’s (loss of dopamine neurons), Huntington’s (basal ganglia atrophy) -Viral infection (encephalitis), loss of oxygen (anoxia) -Head trauma -Epilepsy, resection of seizure focus
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what is one important thing to remember when talking about lesion studies?
the brain being looked at is not healthy
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what are two questions ask during lesion studies?
1.Whether a particular brain region is necessary for a specific cognitive function 2.How information may be represented in the brain
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what are we looking for in patients during a lesion study?
a dissociation between impaired/spared cognitive processes
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fill in the blanks
Single; double dissociation
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fill in the blanks:
Left (orange): Broca's area Right (white): Wernicke's area
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what happens during a PET scan?
a tracer is introduced to the bloodstream through injection and the PET scanner detects photons emitted from isotope. The images show blood distribution in the brain and the more "PET counts" = more radiation
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true or false? if false, correct the statement fMRI and MRIs use the different equipment to read out different things
false; fMRI and MRIs use the same equipment to read out different things
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these scans are showing an example of what type of imaging?
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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the BOLD signal for fMRIs are based on what fact?
* Based on fact that oxygenated and deoxygenated blood have different magnetic properties
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these images are examples of what type of imaging?
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
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which variable is the manipulated one?
the independent variable
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which variable is the event you are evaluating?
the dependent variable
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what is the most common application for deep brain stimulation?
a treatment for Parkinson's disease
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The technique known as ________ can be used to induce virtual lesions in humans.
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation)
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Which neuroimaging technique involves injecting an isotope of oxygen into the bloodstream and using it to measure regional cerebral blood flow?
PET (positron emission tomography)
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Which of the following neuroimaging techniques involves manipulating the orientation of protons?
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

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