CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Adaptive Control

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Robert Reinhart

Document Summary

Schizophrenia is the most debilitating brain disorder that there is. Debilitating means how much it effects you in your daily life. The cognitive abnormalities of people affected with schizophrenia in uence their learning an memory, executive function and attention. Therefore, their outcomes and daily activities of every day life will be abnormal. Adaptive control means rapidly and exibly adjusting our behavior to changing circumstances. Post-error slowing after you make a mistake in a certain activity, you will be slower in the next trial. There are uctuations in how you are responding the faster you go, the quicker you do this activity, the more errors there will be in your trials. There could be some con ict in the behavioral responses in the task, there could be negative feedback (so you become more cautious) . After you make a mistake, you get a red block in the vertex of your scalp (generation of red bloc.