If I only had a brain
Damage to this area in the temporal lobe will result in fluid speech that is meaningless.
What is Wernicke's area?
This type of memory is the reason why we don't perceive a black screen in between frames when viewing a film.
What is sensory memory?
This is what we experience when the brain "fills in" missing parts of speech signal.
What is phonemic restoration?
When we actively monitor an environment for the appearance of a target that we know is there, we are using this function of attention.
What is search?
You suddenly realize the correct answer to the remote association problem e.g. opera / hand / dish = soap.
What is insight?
When we see someone complete an action that we know how to do, we observe activity in mirror neurons, found here.
What is the premotor cortex?
Focusing, dividing, and switching attention is the function of this part of working memory.
What is the central executive?
This theory states that our minds store highly detailed models for patterns, and we recognize a pattern by comparing it this this stored representation.
What is template theory?
Dichotic listening is a test of this function of attention.
What is selective attention?
You use the same sentence structure as your conversational partner.
What is syntactic coordination?
The P600 signal, associated with semantic violations, is measured from this lobe.
What is the frontal lobe?
If we want to test for differences in episodic and semantic memory, we would use this approach.
What is the remember-know paradigm?
These inert substances influence the experience of pain, mental states, and even objective health measures.
What are placebos?
The fact that participants can shadow meaningful messages that switch from one ear to another, such as in the Dear Aunt Jane experiment, posed a problem for this theory of attention.
What is Broadbent's Early Selection Model?
What is an exemplar?
This area of the brain is activated during negative states, such as pain, anger, disgust, and hunger.
What is the right anterior insula?
The reason many of us are unable to draw the tails side of a toonie from memory is because of the ineffectiveness of this process.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
We use this type of pattern recognition system when processing faces.
What is the configurational system?
In Treisman's Attenuation Theory of attention, this component analyzes the message for meaning.
What is the dictionary unit?
You think that it is more likely that Trudeau will step-down and that the conservatives will win the next federal election than just Trudeau stepping down.
What is the conjunction fallacy?
When shown an object, split brain patients would be able to draw the object with this hand.
What is the left hand?
Weaker hippocampal responses over time to semantic information, but not episodic information, is consistent with this theory?
What is the multiple trace hypothesis?
Patient CK could discriminate among faces, but had impairment in naming common objects, otherwise known as this.
What is object agnosia?
What are easy tasks?
When faced with a tough choice between multiple graduate programs abroad, you decide to stay at the same institution as your undergrad.
What is the status quo bias?