Voluntary vs Reflective Attention

______ attention is consciously directed to the target (top-down process).

A right-sided temporoparietal attention system is responsible for ______ attention.

Frontal lobe damage impairs ______ making (patient Gage).

At the front of the frontal lobe in the brain, there is a region called prefrontal cortex, regulating different aspects of our ______.

The insula is more activated during negative emotions when facing an unfair choice, while the prefrontal cortex regulates and implements the best ______ based on one's goals.

Brain damage (e.g. Patient K.C.) can remove one type of declarative memory without affecting the other, indicating that the two kinds of memories are processed ______.

What they found is hippocampus more involved in ______ while perirhinal cortex associated with familiarity.

Hebbian theory postulates that cells that fire together, ______ together.

For example, when a presynaptic neuron is consistently active at the same time as a postsynaptic neuron, the connections between them (Hebbian synapses) tends to ______.

Long-term potentiation (LTP) is one of the examples of changes in Hebbian ______.

LTP depends on the activation of NMDA receptors, which induces an increase in the number of postsynaptic AMPA receptors, and greater ______ release.