Exam 8: Attention and Consciousness

As shown in the study of Timothy, the truck driver from Canada, Damage to the _____ parietal lobe can result in neglect of the left visual field.

Individuals with severe brain injuries in subcortical structures can be assisted by:

During ______, many or all of the neurons in the cortex are firing in a synchronized fashion.

An individual in a coma will show ______ activity on an EEG.

To have subjective experiences, we need to be in a _________.

The old woman/young woman and duck/rabbit images are examples of:

Measuring connectivity between brain regions would not allow you to predict transition from light sleep to deep sleep.

The temporoparietal junction is the junction between the temporal and parietal:

Functionalism states that:

Decreased attention occurs when there is synchronization at:

Change blindness occurs of a person fails to notice:

The firing pattern of neurons effects consciousness.

Larger networks of correlated activity will occur after there has been:

________ is the sum of electrical fields generated by neurons within a given area.

Paying attention to a stimulus will cause stronger firing rates in particular neurons. This, in turn, will cause:

The junction point of the parietal and temporal lobes is called the:

Attending to _____ may be accomplished by a bottom-up attentional mechanism.

Awareness is affected during sleep because there is _____________ among different areas of the brain.

Measuring a ______ in an oddball paradigm would involve the use of a novel oddball thrown in amongst the usual oddballs.

The signal-to-noise ratio of a neuron can be increased with _______.