Cognitive Control

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What is cognitive control?
Process that allows processing and behaviour to vary adaptively from moment to moment
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What does cognitive control not allow you to do?
Override voluntary thoughts
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Cognitive control turns ______ _______ into _______ _______
Habitual behaviour, goal oriented
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Which area is involved in monitoring behaviour?
Medial frontal cortex
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What is perseveration?
Persisting with a response when it is known to be incorrect
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What did Milner (1995) find the LPFC to be involved in?
Working memory not long-term associative memory
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What area is active during the delay between seeing a face and performing a working memory task?
Prefrontal cortex
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What are habitual decisions sometimes under the control of?
Reward
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What is neuroeconomics?
Neural basis of decision making
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What did VMPFC activity correlate with?
Value
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What did DLPFC activity correlate with?
Self-control
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What is the result of caudal prefrontal cortex lesions?
Goal planning fails
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What is the result of rostral prefrontal cortex lesions?
Simpler goals can be met but not complex ones
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In which tasks is the anterior cingulate cortex most active?
Complex
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