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13 Cards in this Set
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Dysexecutive syndrome
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frontal lobe; cognitive ability and intelligence may be slightly impaired but its is the personality that changes the most
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supression of habitual responces
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no longer do the habitual responces
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cell assemblies
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synapses, dendrites, neurotransmitters,
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localization
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the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.
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distributionist
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memories are held in various areas of the brain
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nueral plasticity
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brains natural ability to form new conections
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mesulam
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progressive form of dementia characterized by the global loss of language abilities and initial preservation of other cognitive functions
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Posner
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Used PET scans and found two attentional systems in the brain of monkeys and humans
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Fusion
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parahypocamal and perninal by which ideas are bonded together so perfectly that they can no longer be seperated
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association
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each idea has its own identity and forms a link enterohimeo cortex
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Schmajuk's model
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brain mapped nueral network: error network in the hippocampus, hidden units in cortex, output units in cerebellum
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capacity
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maximum amount of info that can be contained
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Efficiency
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production of desired effects with minimum waste of time and skills
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