01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Executive Functions, Media Multitasking, Caudate Nucleus
12 Feb 2018
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Motor disorders: what is huntington"s disease? (genetic, progressive, subcortical) Arm jerks facial twitches tremors and writhing that can affect a person"s walking, speech and other voluntary movements: what is als (generally), which has the highest, next highest, and lowest incidence: parkinson"s, Parkinson (worst prognosis) huntington"s disease als. What part of empathy is within the purview of the dlpfc? functions mediated by the dlpfc: mainly sequencing. Strategy related functions: divergent responses, planning and organizing, abstract reasoning. Memory functions: working memory, maintenance of behavioral sets. Be able to recognize them when you see them. Conflict monitoring: the foraging value theory and the expected value of control theory both look at the costs of switching between tasks. Fvt focuses on the expected reward for remaining on the current task (the default) and for switching to the alternate, non-default task (including the time and resources consumed during the switch) Convergent: only a single answer/solution is possible.
