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The dorsal visual pathway is also known as the...
Parietal pathway
The study by Karpicke and Roediger (published in Science in 2008) on the importance of retrieval shows that
All of the statements listed here.
Consider an experiment where participants listen to a wordlist, such as “daughter, oil, rifle, garden, grain, table, football, anchor, giraffe…” and are instructed to report the last word starting with a G.
The amount of time a word is in working memory will not affect the chance of recall in a surprise recall task
What evidence is a key challenge to a pure Gestalt view of visual segmentation?
Some segmentation occurs top-down.
The fusiform face area is part of the ______ visual stream (fill in the blank).
Ventral
Bimodal bilinguals can...
Speak and Sign at the same time, there are two linguistic outputs (vocal and manual articulation).
Costa 2008 found that monolinguals are faster at the flanker task than bilinguals (reduced congruency effect).
False
Which area of the brain did Abutabi 2012 find less activation in when bilinguals were doing the Flanker task.
Anterior cingulate cortex
Bialystok 2009 used the simon task on monolinguals and bilinguals. They found that both decline in reaction time as age progresses but bilinguals have a faster reaction time.
True
What is a positive of being bilingual.
Reduces the risk of dementia.
ADHD is common in 5% of children and in 2.5% of adults.
True
What age range does DSM - V diagnose ADHD?
Below 12 years
Risk factors for ADHD include.
Heritability and prenatal brain injury.
Which area of the brain with hypoactivity leads to ADHD?
Prefrontal cortex
What are the 3 main issues that are highlighted by Karlstad 2017 about the diagnosis of ADHD?
Young children generally are hyperactive and inattentive which means they don't have ADHD, more boys are diagnosed and late diagnosis can lead to lots of consequences (inc car accidents).
Which areas of the brain are responsible for conjunction search?
Posterior Temporal Cortex (PTC) & Parietal Cortex.
What conclusion was made when McGlinchey Berroth 1993 conducted the Priming effect on patients with hemispatial neglect?
Patients with hemispatial neglect may be able to process the left side of their visual field but are not consciously aware.
Subtypes of ADHD include...
Predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive/impulsive and combined inattentive & hyperactive/impulsive.
Conjunction search = looking for something with single features.
False
Hemispatial neglect could be due to the impairment of the stimulus driven system (bottom up processes).
True
Test your knowledge of ADHD diagnosis criteria, priming effect on patients with hemispatial neglect, and the related brain hypoactivity. Explore research findings and risk factors for ADHD, as well as the main issues highlighted in the diagnosis by Karlstad 2017.
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