- Docente: Giuseppe Di Pellegrino
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-PSI/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giuseppe Di Pellegrino (Modulo 1) Francesca Frassinetti (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Psychological sciences and techniques (cod. 8774)
Course contents
An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
The Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cerebral Plasticity
Visual Object Recognition
Space Representation
Selective Attention
Learning and Memory
The Control of Action
Emotion and Social Emotion
Motivation
Empathy and Theory of Mind
Executive Functions
Sleep and Cerebral Rhythms
The course will take place during the first cycle of lectures
(from October to December 2015) at the Cesena Campus of the
School of Psychology and Education (address: piazza A. Moro, 90,
Cesena).
Readings/Bibliography
GAZZANIGA Michael S, IVRY Richard B, MANGUN George R
Neuroscienze Cognitive
Zanichelli (2015)
(particularly, Chapter 2, 3, 5-10, 12-13)
In alternative, the more recent
Purves, Cabeza, Huettel, LaBar, Platt, Woldorff
Neuroscienze Cognitive (seconda edizione)
Zanichelli (2014)
(particularly, Chapters 2, 3, 5-11, 13-14)
Moreover, some articles will be available to students.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination with open-ended questions.
Midterm exam for those students who attend the course.
Teaching tools
PowerPoint slides
Office hours
See the website of Giuseppe Di Pellegrino
See the website of Francesca Frassinetti