Neuroimaging techniques

1. How can individuals use delayed judgments of learning to improve their learning?

2. What is allocation of study time? How can it be used to make learning more efficient?

3. What is the region of proximal learning?

Patient DJT shows a tendency to make up stories instead of recalling actual events. He also has difficulties remembering the recent past. He is totally unaware of his deficits. He has no history with alcohol abuse. Your diagnosis?

a. Frontal syndrome

b. Repuduplicative paramnesia

c. Capgras syndrome

d. Transient global amnesia

Which correctly states the logic behind neuroimaging techniques?

a. Blood flows to the areas of the brain being used; neuroimaging techniques can detect this flow.

b. Electrical impulses cause chain reaction in the brain, which allow researchers to identify white-matter tracts.

c. Electrical stimulation of the brain allows participants themselves to report which area of the brain is being used.

d. Areas of the brain that are in use produce more metabolic correlates, which can be detected by deep brain stimulation and other sensors.

Diffusion tensor imaging is especially good at detecting

a. White-matter tracts that are used in a particular cognitive task

b. Whether a patient has Parkinson’s disease or not

c. Cognitive manipulations that work through the brainstem rather than the cortex

d. All of the above

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