Exam 15: Attention and Higher Cognition

Which type of drugs have been found to improve the symptoms of ADHD?

When you search a computer screen for one blue square amidst many blue circles, yellow squares, and yellow circles you are conducting a _______ search.

The _______ is (are) critically important for establishing gaze in accordance with _______ processes and cognitive goals.

Explain the differences between top-down and bottom-up processing, using examples from voluntary and reflexive cuing tasks.

The _______ bottleneck refers to a filter that results from the limits of our attentional capacity.

The historical account of the effects of Phineas Gage's brain injury provided early information about the functional role of

Name the subcortical and cortical areas involved in visual attention and describe their functions.

Describe the phenomenon of hemispatial neglect with regard to its cardinal symptoms and underlying neuropathology. How does it differ from Balint's syndrome?

What are the two subcortical structures that guide shifts in attention and what do they do?

You are at a train station and hear an extremely loud crash. You, and everyone else, immediately orient their attention to the location of the sound. This is an example of _______ attention.

A viewer closely focused on a complex task, such as being asked to count how many times a group of people throw a ball back and forth, may miss other nonattended stimuli such as dancers moving through the group of people. This is due to an attentional phenomenon called

What is the primary role of the dorsal frontoparietal system?

Who was Phineas Gage, and what happened to him as a result of his accident? How has he contributed to our understanding of the role of the frontal lobes in executive function?