Exam 8: Attention and Consciousness

The midbrain is associated with:

Processing units called ensembles are comprised of:

Synchronization at high frequencies leads to _____ attention.

Suffering a stroke may result in this disorder where an individual does not attend to objects or people on one side of their visual field:

An experiment that used a man dressed in a gorilla suit walking amongst people passing a basketball demonstrated:

The thalamus is strongly connected with ________.

Because individuals with hemineglect can pass many vision tests, the deficit is better described as affecting:

The gain of the response of a neuron increases when:

In global workspace theory, the workspace could map onto primary visual and auditory areas.

What a person pays attention to (is conscious of) is NOT:

There must be synchronization at _____, during deep sleep.

Coma, vegetative state, and minimally conscious state are all terms for a reduced state of ________.

A central cue may cause _____ if the cue points to the correct location at the correct time.

An individual will lose consciousness if there is a loss in ___________ brain activity.

When under anesthesia, an EEG of the brain will look as it does during:

An example of exploiting perceptual rivalry is the:

Failing to notice a change in your environment, such as someone removing an object, is called:

Global workspace theory and higher-order theory are both _____ theories of consciousness.

Synchronization is neurons in two distinct areas firing:

Anesthetics works by increasing inhibitory signaling or decreasing excitatory signaling.