To provide knowledge about the biological bases of cognitive and behavioral processes and about the techniques to investigate them. The program will go through the main issues addressed in the psychobiology, such as memory, learning, attention, perception-action and language. All these cognitive functions will be presented from a physiological perspective, by describing also the neural bases.
Introduction to Psychobiology:
a) Evidence
b) main methodological tools and techniques
Biological basis 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 bases
Attention:
a) endogenous and exogenous attention
b) experimental paradigms
c) the neural bases
Memory:
a) types of memory: short-term and long-term
b) experimental paradigms
c) the neural bases
Language:
a) main theories on language
b) the neural bases
Learning:
a) theories of conditioning
b) experimental paradigms
c) the neural mechanisms
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 |
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