44514 - Psychology of the Memory

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the theme of memory research in the broader context of cognitive psychology, and is able to relate it to historical and methodological aspects and experimental characterizing the discipline

Course contents

Neurobiological basis of memory.

Neuroendocrine functions and consolidation of memories.
The function of glucocorticoids and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.
Memory and time: the psychological perspective and that of the analytic philosophy.

The concept of Chronesthesia and its relationship with the "mental time travel".
Memory and psychopathology

Readings/Bibliography

Michael Dummett  [2006]  Verità e passato.   Raffaello Cortina editore 
Benjamin Libet [2007] Mind Time. Il fattore temporale nella coscienza.  Raffaello Cortina editore  pagg 1-127

Tulving, E. [2002], Chronesthesia: Awareness of subjective time, in Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, a cura di D.T. Stuss, R.C. Knight, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 311-325.

D'Argembeau A., Van der Linden M. Individual differences in the phenomenology of mental time travel : The effect of vivid visual imagery and emotion regulation strategies. (2006) Consciousness and Cognition 15, 342-350

  Lupien, S.J., Fiocco, A., Wan, N., Maheu, F., Lord, C., Schramek, T., Tu, M.T., 2005. Stress hormones and human memory function across life span.  Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30, 225-242.

Teaching methods

Lectures and some experiments in classroom

Assessment methods

Oral examination or production of papers on the topics discussed

Teaching tools

Some simple experimental simulation in the classroom

Links to further information

http://Two teaching modules: Prof. Anna Borghi and Prof. Gianni Brighetti

Office hours

See the website of Gianni Brighetti

See the website of Anna Maria Borghi