To provide knowledge about the biological bases of cognitive and behavioral processes.
The program will touch the main issues addressed in Psychobiology, such as memory, learning, attention, perception, action, language. All of these cognitive functions will be dealt with a physiological point of view, by describing also the neural bases.
Introduction to Psychobiology:
a) Background
b) the principal methodological tools and techniques
Biological bases of behavior:
a) neurons and synapses
b) neuronal circuits
c) long-term potentiation
The cycle "perception-action"
a) from sensory stimuli to motor outputs
b) movements and actions
c) the neural basis
Attention:
a) endogenous and exogenous attention
b) experimental paradigms
c) the neural basis
Memory:
a) types of memory: short-term and long-term
b) experimental paradigms
c) the neural basis
The language:
a) the main theories on language
b) the neural basis
Learning:
a) theories of conditioning
b) experimental paradigms
c) neural mechanisms
The brain plasticity:
a) virtuous and harmful plasticity
b) functional reorganization
c) inter-hemispheric inhibition
d) neuromodulation
Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
N. A. Campbell e J. B. Reece | BIOLOGIA | Zanichelli | 2004 | ||
K.A. Mason, J.B. Losos, S.R. Singer | Biologia. Edizione Italiana a cura di Paolo Bonaldo. 6 volumi acquistabili separatamente | Piccin | 2012 | ||
Carlson N | Fisiologia del comportamento (Edizione 9) | Piccin Nuova Libraria | 2008 | 978-88-299-1908-6 |
Written exam with multiple choice.
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