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1
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Cognition requires extensive synaptic interactions between what?

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pyramidal cells of all neocortical areas

2
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What are the levels of language?

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  1. language conceptual system 2. Language mediational system 3. Language Implementation System 4. Spoken language
3
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what acts as a relay from the conceptual system to the language implementation system?

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the language mediational system

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what provides the concepts underlying our language. For example, the noun mediation area receives input from the ventral visual pathway and provides us with the names of things?

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the conceptual system

5
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What ages recognize all sounds that might be language?

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babies younger than 6 months

6
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when do babies start to have a brain change and they start to recognize the specific language sounds of their native language. Babies drop the use of phenomes that don’t occur in their language

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between 6-9 months

7
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where is a new language coded for in adults?

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areas adjacent to broca’s area

8
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what is social cognition divided into?

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emotion comprehension and theory of mind

9
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what is emotion comprehension responsible for?

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recognizing my own emotions

10
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What is the first step in emotion comprehension?

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perception of facial expressions requires that we identify a face as something special

11
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what is the area in the brain that is responsible for storing faces?

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the fusiform face area

12
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what is the second step in emotion comprehension?

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bring in the emotional component

13
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what anatomical substrates bring in the emotional component in emotion comprehension?

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the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and the anterior cingulate cortex

14
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the facial details that cue us as to what emotion we are seeing in another person are concentrated how?

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in a triangle containing the eyes, nose, and mouth

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what is responsible for controlling the use of the eyes and directs the gaze to that triangle when looking at human faces?

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the amygdala

16
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an individual with damage to the amygdala would have difficulty doing what?

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looking at that triangle of emotion

17
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when do mirror neurons fire?

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when you do something and when you see someone else do that same action

18
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what areas are necessary to imitate other people’s motions?

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the ventral visual system, the posterior mirror neuron system, and the anterior mirror neuron system

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what is the ventral visual system’s (the posterior sector of the superior temporal sulcus) role in imitating other’s motions?

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it provides the visual input

20
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what is the posterior mirror neuron’s role in imitating other’s motions?

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it identifies the motor action

21
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what is the anterior mirror neuron’s role in imitating other’s motions?

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it identifies the goal of the action

22
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the circuit for imitating is believed to interact with limbic structures via what?

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the insula

23
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what is prosody?

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tune and rhythm of speech

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what is the first step in the perception of prosody?

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the primary auditory cortex is required for the basics of sound processing

25
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what is the second step in the perception of prosody?

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the information from the primary auditory cortex is sent to the right posterior superior temporal sulcus

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what occurs in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus?

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we begin to piece together the meaning of the loudness and pitch

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what is the third step in perception of prosody?

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the information from the right posterior superior temporal sulcus is then sent to the frontal cortex

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what occurs in the frontal cortex during perception of prosody?

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the judgement of the emotional stimulus is determined

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what does the core pathway of theory of mind require?

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the amygdala, the medial temporal lobes, and the orbitofrontal areas

30
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what serves as the scaffold of theory of mind and is considered an accessory pathway?

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language

31
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when we talk about decision making, there are three general areas that are involved. What are they?

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stimulus encoding area, action selection area, and the expected award system

32
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what anatomical structures are involved in the stimulus encoding system?

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orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and the striatum

33
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what is the purpose for the stimulus encoding system?

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it evaluates the evidence available in making the decision - “i can’t buy this i dont have the money

34
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what anatomical structures are involved in the action selection system?

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the anterior cingulate cortex

35
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what is the role of the action selection system?

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it learns and encodes the subjective value of the results- “was this good or bad” it also is involved in error detection

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what anatomical structures are involved in the expected reward system?

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basal ganglia, amygdala, insular cortex, intraparietal cortex

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what is the role of the expected reward system?

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it predicts the expected reward “im going to buy this because it will make me happy”

38
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what system is involved with decisions with known risks?

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stimulus encoding system

39
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what system is involved with decisions with ambiguous risks?

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the expected award system and the action selection system

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what system is responsible for predicting the consequences of actions?

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the stimulus encoding system

41
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what system asks “what are the rewards?”

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the expected award system

42
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what system is responsible for learning from mistakes and encodes the results?

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the action selection system