Exercise 01 Themes

Published

April 9, 2025

Modified

January 30, 2025

About

This page summarizes some of the themes and concepts that students mentioned in responses to Exercise 01.

Methods

  • Electroencephalography (EEG)
    • Frequency band analyses (delta, theta, alpha, beta)
    • Event-related Potentials (ERPs)
      • Components
        • N2
        • N400
        • late positive complex (LPC)
        • late positive potential (LPP)
        • error-related negativity (ERN)
    • Time Frequency Representation (TFR)
    • Coherence
      • Wavelets
  • Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
  • Multi-modal brain imaging
    • diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI)
    • diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
      • tractography
    • functional MRI (fMRI)
    • structural MRI, morphometry
      • e.g., lateral ventricular volume
  • Brain imaging analyses
    • voxel
    • Independent components analysis (ICA)
    • Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA)
    • deconvolution method
  • Contrast agents
  • Resting state functional connectivity (rsFC), resting state fMRI
    • default mode network
    • lateral frontoparietal network (LFPN)

Brain development, plasticity, learning

  • Synaptic pruning

Autonomic physiology

  • Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA)
    • Vagal (Xth) cranial nerve
    • Sympathetic/parasympathetic drive
    • Polyvagal theory
    • RSA reactivity, suppression, augmentation
  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis

Brain areas

  • Amygdala
    • centromedial nuclei
    • laterobasal
  • Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
  • Hippocampus
  • Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)

Psychological states/behavior

  • Inhibitory control
  • Emotion, fear regulation
  • Cognitive appraisal
  • Adaptive behavior
  • Addictive behavior
  • Semantic activation
  • Active comprehension
  • Predictive processes
  • Bilingual language control
  • Allostatic load
  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Cognitive reserve
  • Attention

Tasks

  • Stop-Signal Reaction Time (SSRT)

Endocrine systems

  • Oxytocin
    • state-like
    • trait-like
  • Glucocorticoids, e.g. cortisol
    • glucocorticoid receptors