We Ready (Practice)
This is how many licks it would take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
What is, the world may never know?
This executive function could be considered the 'highest,' regularly making use of or manipulating the other two.
What is cognitive flexibility?
An area of Frontal Lobe grey matter, but not considered part of the PFC.
What is the Primary Motor Cortex (M1)?
You'll see neural activity here when someone is planning motor actions pertaining to speech.
What is Broca's Area (or the left IFG)?
The region of the brain most implicated in fear processing and emotional memory formation.
What is the amygdala?
BONUS (300pts): Name the bands (3/5 gets the points).
We Ready
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Ballad of Me and My Brain
We Don't Talk Anymore
More than a Feeling
We Ready - Archie Eversole
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Ballad of Me and My Brain - The 1975
We Don't Talk Anymore - Charlie Puth / Selener
More than a Feeling - Boston
This is the most populous animal on the planet.
What are ants?
This is the arrows task, testing inhibitory control.
What is Flanker?
The part of the PFC that seems to be specifically involved in inhibitory control.
What is the right ventrolateral PFC (R-vlPFC)?
When a certain skill, such as language, is managed preferentially by one hemisphere of the brain, it is referred to as this.
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What is Lateralization?
The two 'factors' of the Two-Factor Theory of Emotions.
What are Valence and Arousal?
TOPIC:
Language
If someone is consistently having difficulty finding the meaning of words, it may suggest a deficit in this executive function.
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What is Inhibitory Control?
Superheating sand can turn it into this.
What is glass?
When someone has a certain goal, any stimulus unrelated to that goal can be referred to as this.
What is a Lure?
This is the region of the PFC most strongly implicated in manipulating mental representations (i.e., the information stored in working memory).
What is the dorsolateral PFC (dlPFC)?
In the Connectionist Model of Language, this term refers to the sounds that make up a lexical unit.
What are Phonological Segments?
A 'fast' effector system that triggers gross muscular reactions in response to a stimulus.
What is the Somatic effector system?
This is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
What is Kentucky?
In this test of executive functions, you'll need to lean heavily on the one that gives us task-switching abilities.
What is Shape-Color?
An area of PFC grey matter found within the longitudinal sulcus in the anterior-most portion of the Frontal Lobe.
What is the medial frontopolar cortex (mFPC)?
A lexical network based on how often words are heard or spoken together.
What is a Co-Occurrence Network?
This region of the PFC is specifically implicated in processing (and the conscious experience of) regret.
What is the OFC (orbitofrontal)?
This country has the most World Cup championship wins.
What is Brazil?
When you are inhibiting a cognition (i.e., cognitive inhibition pertaining to thoughts or attention), you are using this type of inhibitory control.
What is Interference Control?
Part of the Executive Function Circuit, this region of PFC receives outputs of the Valuation Circuit and responds when values misalign.
What is the ACC?
An area of grey matter responsible for storing the relationships between words and their sounds.
What is Wernicke's area (left IPL & left pSTG)?
This Endocrine effector system works via the axis of these three regions.
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What are the Hypothalamus, Pituitary, and Adrenal cortex?
In Se7en, this is what was in the box.
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What is a head?
The most powerful thought/memory that is evoked by a stimulus.
What is a prepotent mental representation?
The three regions of the Valuation Circuit.
What are the FPC, OFC, and vmPFC?
The bundle of white matter that connects the grey matter areas involved in comprehension and production.
What is the Arcuate Fasciculus?
This region is implicated in managing/reducing negative emotional experiences, theoretically through speaking them aloud.
What is the right vlPFC?