PSYC33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frontal Lobe, Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India, Cognitive Training
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Executive function: history and future of rehabilitation intervention. Integrative cognitive functions that determine goal-directed and purposeful behavior and are superordinate in the orderly execution of daily life functions. Integrating: frontal interacting with all other lobes of the brain: organized into goal-directed behavior. Habits taken over: habit may not be helpful if world changes around you. Stress or anxiousness or distractions may cause you to takes you off from goal-directed behavior: goal is driven askew from environmental stimuli (that is salient distraction, executive control necessary for daily life functions. The (cid:858)default (cid:373)odel(cid:859) & (cid:374)eed for e(cid:454)e(cid:272)uti(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol (cid:894)mesula(cid:373), (cid:1006)00(cid:1006)(cid:895) Default mode (ie. running on autopilot: action driven by immediate gratification and environmental triggers. You see a trai(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou get o(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:455)et, it(cid:859)s the (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g trai(cid:374)(cid:895: behavior poorly modulated by context/experience. Ignoring context (did not look at any signs: need for a buffer between stimulus and action.
