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attention
concentration on something at the cost of other things
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cocktail party effect
your name is very salient and important to you
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neglect
- deals with right parietal lession
- neglect of the left visual field
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balints syndrome
- bilateral parietal lesion
- percieve one object at a time
- cannot reach for object in space
- cannot direct gaze and maintain it
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extinction
- neglect of the contralesional stimulus when stimuli are presented simultaneously in the 2 visual field
- great if 2 stimuili are identical
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frontal lobe
deployed cognitive resources in a goal- directed manner
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ventromedial prefrontal cortex
- deals with how emotions and cognition interact
- important for shifitng strategies
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dorsolateral
handles things that deal with nonemotions
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wisconsin card sorting task (WCST)
- given a deck of cards and asked to sort cards however you want
- looking for how quickly a patient can shift out of one sorting strategy to another
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psychological inertia
- prefrontal damage symptom
- -difficulty in starting an action, motivalional problems
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persevation
- prefrontal damage symptom
- -inability to shift action according to changing task demands
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environmental dependency syndrome
- prefrontal damage symptoms
- -some object in the environment triggers action
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left frontal damage
poor recency judgment for verbal
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right frontal damage
poor recency judgment for nonverbal
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working memory
online temporary maintenance of task- relevant info
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maintenance in working memory
- right ventral prefrontal cortex does spatial
- left ventral pfc handles object (symbolic) info
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manipulation in working memory
bilateral dorsal prefrontal activation for spatial and object working memory
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affective neuroscience
the study of emotions
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galvanic skin response or skin conductane response
- measure electiricty conductance over skin
- when you are aroused you sweat
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orbitofrontal
undersize of frontal lobe
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ventromedial
area sitting right above your eye sockets and in the middle of the frontal lobe
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amygdalae
- in medial temperol lobe anterior to the hippocampus
- critical role in ascribing affective meaning to stimuli
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Urbach- Wiethe syndrome
- bilateral amygdala damage
- -impaired memory for emotional portion of stories
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neural tube
front runner to central nervous system
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prenatal
how neuron form, where, how do they end up where they need to be
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postnatal
what kind of changes take place
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precursor cells (neural stem cells)
undifferientiated cells that will form glial cells or neurons
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raidal glia
- cell which radiate outward from ventricular zone and guide cells on migratory paths
- -become astrocytes
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schizophrenia
- onset 16-30 years
- prevalence-1% of population
- higher prevalence in males (15-25 onset)
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positive symptoms
- show behaviors they should not have
- - ex: hallucinations, delusions
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negative symptoms
- do not show behaviors they should have
- -ex: flat/ blunted mood, poverty of speech
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tardive dyskinesia
- most common side effect of taking antipsychotic drugs
- - repetitive, uncontrolled movememnts of mouth and tongue
- -e.g lip- smacking
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