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| What are the 3 types of cognitive processing schema? |
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| parallel, cascade, serial |
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| What logic implies that damage to a specfic brain region corresponds to loss of a specific function? |
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| Subtraction Deficit Logic |
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| What studies suggest that specific regions of the brain are both essential and involved in brain function? |
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| What studies suggest that specific regions of the brain are essential in brain function? |
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| What type of cognitive processing allows information to be processed in multiple neural regions simultaneously? |
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| What type of cognitive processing incorporates partial information from different cognitive units? |
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Cascade Processing
-units bing compiled together continuously over time |
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| What type of cognitive processing involves a queuing process? |
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Serial processing
-one neural region processes information at a time and then passes its output to other regions |
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| What do you call the cognitive disorder that impairs language? |
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| What 4 symptoms are traditionally assessed in aphasia? |
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| Fluency, Comprehension, Repetition, Naming |
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| Broca's aphasia results from a lesion or stroke in what neural region? |
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| What type of language impairment occurs when a patient is unable to perform any language lexicon? |
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| This type of aphasia refers to having an impairment in word finding but not comprehension. |
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| What is the name of the white matter tract that connects Broca's Area to Wernicke's Area? |
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| This is a language impairment that disrupts the ability to write words and sentences. |
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| The inability to access this type of lexicon refers to a patient being able to write but NOT read. |
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| Input orthographic lexicon |
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| A lesion of this region will cause what lexical impairment resulting in an inaility to say the sounds of words that you would want to say? |
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| Lesions to the angular gyrus cause an output phonological lexicon impairment |
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| Defining neural functional units SPATIALLY: what are the 2 extremes? And which one is correct? |
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Discrete:every neuron does something specific, very isolated and selective
Parallel:every neuron in equally at play
It is usually a hybrid of these |
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Define functional neural functional units TEMPORALLY.
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| Neurons send electrical potentials. The pattern of how neurons fire is how you think, not just that they fire. At what frequency they are firing says alot. |
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| Define neural functional units CHEMICALLY. |
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| Neurotransmitters are being released. If one transmitter system is changed, it effects other systems. |
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True/False:
A pure serial model is a fallacy. |
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True
It is oversimplification. We just use it becuase it is easy. |
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What is this type of cognitive processing?
When processing is completed in one module in isolation, then passes output to one other module.
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| What is the usefulness of serial processing-based tasks? |
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| What is one problem with serial processing? |
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| most areas of the brain are not independent |
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| What cognitive models do we most likely exhibit? |
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The motor area _____
The auditory cortex _______ |
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produces the sounds
decodes the sounds |
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| Which can recover? White or grey matter? |
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| Can you make new pathways? |
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| No, they have to pre-exist. |
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| In increasing the length of a sentence, it may not always be comprehension impaired, but _____ |
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Which aphasic is really bad at naming?
Fluency?
Comprehension?
Repetition?
All? |
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1. Anomic
2. Broca's
3. Wernicke's
4.Conduction
5. Global |
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| Your speech and fluency mirror _____ |
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True/False:
More recent studies show that a lesion in arcuate fasciculus is neither necessary or sufficient for conduction aphaisa. |
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| What aphasia is like Broca's, but can repeat? |
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| Transcortical Motor Aphaisa |
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| What aphasia is like Wernicke's but has intact fluency and repetition? |
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| How would you describe someone who has isolation of the speech area? |
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| What is the most active part of the brain and usually the first to get hit? |
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| Can't read but can write is called? |
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| Orthographic input lexicon |
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| Can't write but can read is called? |
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| Orthographic output lexicon |
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Seeing 2 words/things together can make you think of one thing...dessert-humps...camel.
Is this only electrical or in a certain place? |
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| What is ideomotor apraxia? |
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| They perform better when imitating an action than when performing an action from a verbal command. They can't follow it via language. |
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| What is limb kinetic apraxia? |
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Loss of dexterity in finger movements.
Cannot move their fingers precisely, independently, or in a coordinated fashion. |
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| What is dissociation apraxia? |
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| impairment at sequencing a series of independent acts that lead to a goal...making a sandwich |
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| What is apraxia a hallmark sign of? |
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| Corticobasal Degeneration |
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