Learning and Memory
One can access it consciously.
What is declarative or explicit memory
The two areas in the left perisylvian network of language.
What are Broca's area and Wernicke's area?
A key component of working memory involving the selection of information that is most relevant.
What is dynamic filtering?
A valanced response to external or internal stimuli.
What is an emotion?
The collective store of information about the semantics, syntax, orthography, and phonology of words
Mental Lexicon
What is phonological loop?
A condition that where individuals experience trouble controlling the muscles that articulate speech sounds.
What is dysarthria?
When lesions are formed it may cause impairment to this brain structure that impedes the ability to make goal-directed decisions.
What is the Frontal Cortex?
Fear conditioning is a more specific instance of.
What is classical conditioning?
The concept of “words in the same neighborhood” is analogous to.
What are words related in meaning?
The number of items humans can hold in short-term memory.
What is seven.
A type of aphasia that inhibits the use of syntax.
What is agrammatic aphasia?
lexical access → lexical selection → lexical integration
What are the three main components of word or lexical processing?
This brain structure performs a modulatory role in declarative memory.
What is the Amygdala?
Three main subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex.
What are the lateral prefrontal cortex, frontal pole, and medial frontal cortex?
What is the hippocampus?
Damage to this part of a patient’s brain would present symptoms that include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output.
What are the posterior language areas in the left hemisphere?
Alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic.
What are the three primary ways in which words are symbolized in different writing systems?
This brain structure is most involved with.
What is disgust?
The most caudal part of the frontal lobe.
What is the Primary Motor?
This is a strategy of organizing individual bits of information into higher-order units to increase the amount of information stored in short-term memory.
What is chunking?
the kind of amnesia demonstrated people with bilateral hippocampal damage or people with diencephalon injury.
What is they can still learn new skills, such as the serial reaction time task, after the injury.
Context, payoff, objectivity, preference.
What are representations of value?
People with more of this, are better able to suppress negative emotion voluntarily.
What is left-sided activity?
Neuroimaging experiments have demonstrated that working memory engages the
What are the prefrontal cortex and more posterior brain areas involved in perception and mental representation.