Learning & Memory
memory loss for events after a brain injury.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Ritualistic behaviors to reduce anxiety
What are compulsions?
A global level of alterness
Understanding that others have beliefs of their own, not everyone shares in the same information. Usually develops around 3 years old.
What is theory of mind?
A model that attributes symptoms of schizophrenia to a neurotransmitter system.
What is the dopamine hypothesis?
Classical conditioning requires this brain area.
What is the cerebellum?
Allow us to determine the heritability of disorders
What are twin and adoption studies?
Failure to perceive stimuli that are not attended to.
What is inattentional blindness?
The ability to think about thinking
What is metacognition?
The occurrence of two or more disorders.
What is comorbidity?
These hippocampal cells respond when an individual is in a specific location.
What are place cells?
We see less of this type of sleep in depression.
What is stage 3 sleep?
Average of EEG results over many task trials
The brain network that is active during quiet, introspective thought.
What is the default mode network?
Memory for autobiorgraphical events.
What is episodic memory?
What is long-term potentiation?
This region tends to be smaller, on average, in adults with PTSD.
What is the right hippocampus?
How the brain understands what stimuli attributes blend together into a single object, when these attributes are processed by different brain regions.
What is the binding problem?
Higher-level cognitive processes that control and organize our thoughts, behaviors, and feelings.
What are executive functions?
Unattended information is filtered out right away (before any meaning is processed)
What are early selection models of attention?
Two types of glutamate receptors important in long term potentiation.
What are AMPA and NMDA receptors?
Glutamate receptor antagonist that may help with depression symptoms.
What is ketamine?
What is the dorsal frontoparietal pathway?
This pathway is implicated in bottom-up, reflexive attention
What is the right temporoparietal pathway or temporoparietal junction?
Brain region important for executive functions.
What is the prefrontal cortex?