PSYCH 345 Study Guide - Frontal Lobe, Saccade, Neuropsychology
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* to be used in conjunction with material from lectures, readings, and discussion sections. Frontal lobes: james" description of human intelligence. Anatomy of the frontal lobes: boundaries; major subdivisions; premotor & motor areas; prefrontal cortex; three major prefrontal regions; prefrontal connectivity afferents and efferents; anterior cingulate. Effects of frontal lobe damage: release signs, antisaccades, perseveration, disinhibition, frontal lobe amnesia, etc. Delayed response task, delayed saccade task, dlpfc neuron activity, memory scotoma. Cognitive role of dlpfc, role of goal representation, what happens without it. Working memory (wm) in humans baddeley"s model; verbal and visuospatial subsystems. Case of phineas gage outcomes, behavior, anatomy. Gambling task performance (including galvanic skin responses to risk) of controls and vmpfc patients; Social emotion and ofc/vmpfc performance in faux pas task (stone et al), and self-disclosure experiment and results (beer et al. )
