Learning and Conditioning Concepts
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What neurological condition is associated with confabulation resulting from prefrontal damage?

  • Dementia
  • Retrograde amnesia
  • Korsakoff's syndrome (correct)
  • Anterograde amnesia

Which area of the brain is indicated to be hypoactive in a case study related to confabulation?

  • Hippocampus
  • Medial and orbital prefrontal area (correct)
  • Orbitofrontal cortex
  • Medial temporal cortex

What defines learning in a psychological context?

  • A relatively permanent change in behavior produced by experience. (correct)
  • An increase in knowledge without behavioral change.
  • A temporary change in behavior due to external factors.
  • A reaction to stimuli that is instinctual in nature.

What type of memory is typically preserved in patients with retrograde amnesia?

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What is classical conditioning primarily associated with?

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In the context of retrograde amnesia, what type of damage leads to a loss of memory for all experiences except early childhood memories?

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Which cognitive process is thought to be supported by the pre-frontal lobes based on the given content?

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Which statement best describes operant conditioning?

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What does the Hebb rule state in the context of learning?

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What is the primary clinical observation in the case study regarding false alarms in recognition recall?

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How does the pattern of hippocampal activation change over time during memory retrieval according to fMRI studies?

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In the context of stimulus-response learning, what role do brain connections play?

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What is the role of the hippocampus in memory according to the content provided?

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What is the expectation of responses that are followed by reinforcement?

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Which of the following best describes an unconditioned response?

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Which statement accurately contrasts reinforcement and punishment?

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What characteristic is NOT typically associated with the production of meaningless speech?

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Which area of the brain is primarily responsible for recognizing the sounds of words?

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What best describes the relationship between word recognition and comprehension?

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Pure word deafness is characterized by which of the following?

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What effect does damage to Wernicke's area have on language ability?

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Which statement about speech characteristics in individuals with expressive deficits is true?

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Which method is important for assessing comprehension in individuals with expressive deficits?

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What type of deficits typically overlap in patients with speech comprehension difficulties?

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What characterizes Broca's aphasia?

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Which hemisphere is predominantly responsible for language in right-handed individuals?

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Which aspect of speech does the right hemisphere primarily mediate?

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What is a key characteristic of aphasia?

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What must be true for Broca's aphasia to occur?

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What is a common misconception about aphasia?

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What role does the left hemisphere play in language processing?

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Which of these statements is true regarding vascular lesions and language areas?

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What area of the brain is primarily responsible for recognizing sounds as words?

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Which process occurs first when expressing speech?

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Clinical case reports suggest that word meaning can be differentially impaired based on what?

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What kind of emotional expression is predominantly mediated by the right hemisphere?

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What happens when there is damage to Broca's area?

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Which hemisphere is activated when interpreting metaphorical or figurative language?

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Which statement about prosody is true?

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How do white matter connections affect language?

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What type of intonation difficulties do patients with R hemisphere damage experience?

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What characterizes pure alexia?

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Which brain area mediates whole word recognition?

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What is a common characteristic of developmental dyslexia?

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Which area is primarily activated during the recognition of familiar letter combinations?

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How does dyslexia differ in languages with infrequent irregular phoneme-grapheme associations?

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What do functional imaging findings indicate in individuals with dyslexia?

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What cognitive function is mainly impaired in patients with motor disorders of writing?

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Flashcards

Classical Conditioning

Learning by associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus, so that the neutral stimulus eventually triggers a similar response.

Stimulus-Response Learning

Learning to perform a specific behavior when a specific stimulus is present.

Operant Conditioning

Learning where the consequences of a behavior influence its future probability.

Unconditioned Response

A natural, automatic response to a stimulus.

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Reinforcement

A consequence that increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.

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Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, triggers a learned response.

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Hebb Rule

Repeated activation of neurons simultaneously strengthens the connections between them.

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Learning

A relatively permanent behavioral change due to experience.

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Broca's Aphasia

A type of aphasia characterized by slow, labored speech and difficulty with function words, while comprehension is relatively intact. Damage extends beyond Broca's area to surrounding frontal areas and underlying white matter, or to basal ganglia.

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Lateralization of Language

The dominance of one hemisphere of the brain for language processing, most often the left hemisphere for language functions in right-handed individuals.

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Aphasia

Language impairment affecting production or comprehension; not due to motor/sensory problems, lack of motivation, or issues with speech unrelated to language impairment.

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Left Hemisphere Language Dominance

Language functions in most right-handed people are primarily processed in the left hemisphere. Majority of ambidextrous and left-handed people also have left-hemisphere dominance.

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Vascular Lesions in CVA

Stroke damage that usually affects multiple language areas causing complex language impairment as vascular distributions cut across functional areas.

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PET/fMRI for CVA

Brain imaging technologies (PET and fMRI) are used to investigate normal language function and compare with CVA data, but the results often do not immediately align with vascular information.

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Frontal Language Mediation

Speech involves rapid movements of the tongue, lips, and jaw, and Broca's area, in the frontal lobe, likely contains neural patterns that govern these motions.

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Sequential Language Processing

The left hemisphere processes information in a sequential manner, which is important for the generation of speech in humans.

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Confabulation and Prefrontal Lobe Damage

Damage to the prefrontal areas of the brain can lead to confabulation, the creation of false memories. However, this effect is often temporary and may resolve.

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Retrograde Amnesia Duration

The length of retrograde amnesia (loss of past memories) depends on the extent of medial temporal lobe damage. More extensive damage leads to longer periods of memory loss.

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Spared Memories in Retrograde Amnesia

Even with substantial retrograde amnesia, some memories are often preserved, including semantic information, some childhood memories, and spatial memories of familiar places.

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Hippocampus and Memory Retrieval

The hippocampus plays a role in memory retrieval, not just memory storage. Retrieval abilities for some memories can be affected even if storage is intact.

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Hippocampus and Memory Over Time

Studies show that hippocampus activity decreases with time, and this activity can decrease further depending on how far the event is in the past

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False Recognition in Frontal Lobe Damage

Patients with damage to the right frontal lobe may show a tendency for false recognition of items related to a memory, but not for unrelated items.

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Implicit Memory & Amnesia

Despite memory loss caused by amnesia, individuals can still exhibit implicit memory – the influence of past experience on behavior despite conscious awareness.

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Prefrontal Cortex and Memories

The prefrontal cortex helps distinguish between familiar information and accurate contextual information. Damage can lead to difficulty here.

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Pure Word Deafness

Inability to recognize spoken words, but hearing and understanding word meaning remain intact. Patients can understand words through lip reading or reading, and can write.

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Wernicke's Area

Part of the brain (left posterior superior and middle temporal gyrus) responsible for recognizing speech sounds and word sequences.

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Word Recognition

Perceiving the physical form of a word, mediated by Wernicke's area; a perceptual process.

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Word Comprehension

Understanding the meaning of a word; involves semantic memory and different brain areas.

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Dissociable Processes (Recognition & Comprehension)

Word recognition and comprehension are separate mental processes, with different brain areas.

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Fluent Aphasia

Language production is fluent, often with excessive speech output but lacks meaningful content, in which intonation and seeming grammar are largely intact.

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Auditory Association Cortex

Part of the brain that recognizes and processes sounds, including speech, located in the posterior superior and middle temporal gyrus.

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Semantic Memory

Part of memory that stores knowledge about words and word meanings, located in various areas of the brain.

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Right Hemisphere Damage: Intonation

Patients with right hemisphere damage have difficulty understanding and producing the appropriate intonation, emphasizing distinctions between questions and statements, and recognizing subtle nuances in speech.

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Right Hemisphere Damage: Meaning

Patients with right hemisphere damage struggle to interpret the meaning conveyed through intonation, such as distinguishing between "greenhouse" and "green house."

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Pure Alexia

A reading impairment where individuals can write but cannot read what they've written. They have difficulty processing visual information related to words.

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Visual Word-Form Area

A brain region located in the left fusiform gyrus responsible for recognizing whole words as visual units.

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Phonological Reading

Reading by sounding out words, relying on letter-sound correspondences, and involving brain regions like the left inferior parietal-superior temporal and left inferior frontal, including Broca's area.

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Developmental Dyslexia

A reading difficulty that persists despite typical intelligence, often linked to phonological processing challenges.

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Genetic Influence in Dyslexia

Dyslexia has a strong genetic component, with high concordance rates in identical twins, suggesting genes play a significant role in susceptibility to the disorder.

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Phonological Deficits in Dyslexia

One common characteristic of dyslexia is difficulty mastering or learning the association between written symbols and their corresponding sounds.

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Wernicke's Area Role

A brain region responsible for recognizing patterns of sounds as words, initiating the process of word comprehension. It connects to other areas to retrieve memories related to the word's meaning.

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Speech Expression

The process of producing spoken language. It involves retrieving words from memories, activating the corresponding motor commands, and executing those commands to articulate words.

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Broca's Area Role

A brain region crucial for speech production. It receives information about the word to be spoken and controls the motor movements necessary to articulate that word.

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Prosody

The rhythm, intonation, and emphasis used in speech. It adds emotional and structural cues to language, helping convey meaning and intent.

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Prosody and Brain Regions

While prosody is generally mediated by the right hemisphere, Broca's area in the left hemisphere also plays a role in shaping prosody due to its involvement in speech production.

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Prosody's Importance

Prosody is crucial for conveying emotions and establishing the structure of spoken language, allowing listeners to distinguish between different types of utterances, such as assertions, questions, and commands.

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Study Notes

Learning

  • Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior produced by experience
  • Changes in the nervous system are physical
  • Learning allows adaptation to the environment
  • Involves interactions among the motor, sensory, and memory systems

Types of Learning

  • Stimulus-Response Learning: Learning to perform a particular behavior when a particular stimulus is present

    • Involves connections between brain areas that mediate perception and those that mediate movement
    • Classical Conditioning: Associating an unconditioned stimulus with a conditioned stimulus, so the conditioned stimulus elicits a response similar to the unconditioned response. Key characteristics are:
      • Unconditioned response: reliably elicits a response.
      • Conditional response: does not provoke response initially.
      • Pairing stimuli: repeatedly pairing the CS and UCS over many trials
      • Test of learning: whether the CS elicits the response on its own
      • Hebb Rule: neurons that fire together wire together; repeated neural activity changes synapse strength (weak synapse strengthens if simultaneous with a strong synapse)
    • Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning): Association between stimulus and response; consequences determine the likelihood of repeating the response.

  • Motor Learning: A component of stimulus-response learning, involving changes in motor areas of the brain and dependent on sensory feedback

  • Perceptual Learning: Ability to recognize things perceived before; accomplished by changes in sensory association cortex involved in perception

  • Relational Learning: Most complex form of learning, usually referring to learning and memory, and involves combinations of other learning types

Types of Memory

  • Sensory Memory: Sensory registration of stimuli (lasts for milliseconds to a few seconds)
  • Short-Term/Working Memory: Focuses on attention and concentration; contents of current focus; not necessarily permanent storage; memory (not a storage place itself)
  • Long-Term Memory (LTM):
    • Non-declarative (Implicit) Memory:
      • Includes stimulus-response learning
      • Acquired skills
        • Not factual or contextual
    • Declarative (Explicit) Memory:
      • Episodic
        • Memory of events and context.
        • Example: knowing what you wore and said in an interview.
      • Semantic
        • Memory for facts without context.
        • Example: knowing the first president of the US.

Reinforcement

  • Reinforcement or punishment cause the stimulus to become a cue for responding or not responding

VTA & Prefrontal Cortex

  • VTA and prefrontal cortex project to VTA, increasing its activation as actions/goals are reached.
  • Prefrontal cortex also regulates dopamine and is a target of its activation.

Hippocampus and Memory

  • Involved in consolidating information from sensory/motor and subcortical areas; storing information and linking memories
  • Damage to the hippocampus leads to difficulty in memory formation for events after the damage.
  • Electrical stimulation of the ventral tegmental area or medial forebrain bundle (mfb) causes dopamine release in nucleus accumbens (NA)
  • This process is involved in the reinforcing effects of electrical stimulation.
  • Important for episodic and semantic memory storage and retrieval
  • Long-term memory depends on the hippocampus

Amnesia

  • Anterograde: Difficulty in forming new memories after brain damage
  • Retrograde: Inability to retrieve memory events pre-dating the damage
  • Korsakoff's Syndrome: Severe anterograde amnesia associated with chronic alcoholism (caused by vitamin B1 deficiency)

Aphasia

  • Impairment of language, not due to paralysis
  • Broca's Aphasia (non-fluent aphasia): Slow, labored, non-fluent speech; Difficulty with function words; Comprehension relatively intact
  • Wernicke's Aphasia (fluent aphasia): Fluent but meaningless speech; Poor speech comprehension; unaware of language deficits; Comprehension impaired

Auditory-Verbal Comprehension

  • Word recognition: Mediated by middle and posterior superior temporal gyrus
  • Comprehension of word meaning: Mediated by posterior language areas

Language

  • Language: a set of symbols used according to rules.
  • Primary areas: auditory-verbal comprehension, speech, reading, and writing

Reading

  • Reading and writing are often impaired more significantly than speech in neurological conditions.
  • Recognition of familiar letter combinations is mediated by the temporal-occipital extrastriate cortex.

Writing

  • Motor disorder, unrelated to language, may affect different aspects of written work, e.g., numbers, case, etc.
  • Different "approaches" to spelling include phonological, graphic, memorization of letter sequences, and motor memory.
  • Types of dysgraphia include phonological dysgraphia and orthographic dysgraphia.

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