PSYCO377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Oddball Paradigm, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Disconnection

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO377
• Professor: Deanna Singhal

Document Summary

Found that in overt behaviour, the report, the adults were pretty good the youth didn"t do as well. In fact, they reported anger a lot (this this why they are so defensive) Function: planning in advance & selection from options, persistence & ignoring distracting stimuli, vigilance and sticking with, selective attention, temporal memory, short term memory and sequence in time, order of things. Feeds into long term memory: executive functtons - working memory & voluntary attention. Executive function or cognitive control higher order function, error correction, Overcoming a strong habitual response & resisting temptation thinking forward on consequences. Cognitive flexibility (not perseveration) ability to change your mind and change your mind (no perseverate sa we see with wcs task (card sort) Patients who perseverate cannot switch behaviour to fit with new rule. Know they are not following the new rule. I know this is wrong but does it anyways. Only cues relied on are environmental cues, lost temporal memory.