Attention

Question 1

Describe simultanagnosia / balints

Describe the damage

Answer 1

cant integrate items - can only see things separately

bilateral posterior parietal damage.

Question 2

Name the three categories of attention

Answer 2

Selective
Divided- attention has a limited capacity which can be divided between tasks
Sustained- if you’re interested in something, you have sustained attention to it

Question 3

Name the two types of attention

Answer 3

Top down (active)- influenced by pt's own intentions and expectations
and bottom up (passive)- stimuli in the world catch our attention

Question 4

Name the two attentional systems

Answer 4

Ventral fronto-parietal network

Dorsal frontal parietal network

Question 5

Name three ways to research attention

Answer 5

Cognitive psychology- behavioural studies of healthy participants
Cognitive neuropsychology- explain behaviour of patients with lesions in terms of models from cognitive psychology
Cognitive neuroscience- Neurophysiology, imaging provides link between brain and behaviour using PET, fMRI, ERPs etc

Question 6

What does the posner cueing test show?

Answer 6

we are 80x faster at spotting an object when there is a cue

80x slower when the cue is wrong

Question 7

1. what does unilat parietal damage cause

2. what does bilat parietal damage cause

Answer 7

1. neglect and extinction

2. balint syndrome

Question 8

which side do you leave out in neglect

Answer 8

OPPOSITE to lesion

Question 9

what is extinction

Answer 9

mild form of neglect with a double stimuli