Exam 13: Cognitive Control

The key function of the inferior temporal lobe is to evaluate response conflict.

With short delays,we are better at recalling a list of ________ words than a list of ________ words.With longer delays,we show an even stronger effect between ________ similar and dissimilar words.

Which of the following situations would be most likely to engage the anterior cingulate cortex?

Item memory tends to rely more strongly on ________ lobe function,whereas source memory relies more strongly on ________ lobe function.

Which patient group is most likely to be impaired on a task in which one must decide which of two pictures was seen most recently?

Which aspects of memory are compromised following damage to the frontal lobe? Which aspects are relatively unimpaired?

The supervisory attentional system,which seems to be localized to the ________ in the brain,becomes active during the Stroop task because this task requires ________.

What is the difference between a content-based and a process-based account of functional specialization? Which do you believe is more successful in explaining the organization of the frontal lobe,and why?

Which of the following best describes a real-life example of the delayed-response task?

Working memory has been called the ________ of the mind.

Thompson-Schill and colleagues (1997,1998)conducted an experiment in which participants generated an appropriate verb in response to a presented noun.They found that the processing of nouns such as rope,which have many semantically associated verbs,elicited ________ activity in the inferior frontal cortex than did nouns such as scissors,which do not.This result supports the ________ hypothesis of inferior frontal lobe function.

In general,increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex has been observed when participants perform tasks that have any of the following properties EXCEPT

A monkey is taught that food is associated with a stimulus card that has a star on it.After training,the animal receives a lesion to the lateral prefrontal cortex.The monkey's memory for the food-stimulus card association is then tested by presenting the animal with the two stimulus cards diagrammed here.How will the monkey now respond?

An inhibition-based account of prefrontal cortex function would suggest that monkeys with lateral prefrontal lesions perform poorly on the delayed-response task because they

People with frontal lobe lesions are often impaired in organizing and segregating events in memory.

Cells in the prefrontal cortex that respond selectively to information about "what" and "where" may differ from other parts of the visual pathway in that

Which of the following is true about the prefrontal cortex?

The ventromedial zone is also known as (the)

You conduct a single-cell recording study of a lateral prefrontal cortical cell while an animal performs a delayed-response task.Which of the following response profiles best matches the behavior of the cell if it is primarily involved in working memory function? (Each vertical line represents an action potential. )

Neuroimaging experiments have demonstrated that working memory engages the