Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic discipline
M-PSI/02 (PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2020 - 14/06/2020)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Prerequisites
= The contents of the courses of Neurobiology
Learning outcomes
=This course defines the neural bases of different behavioural processes.
Course contents
1) Methods in cognitive neurosciences. 2) Learning and memory in Aplysia: cellular mechanisms and neuronal circuits 3) Non associative and associative learning 4) Spatial learning 5) Declarative memory in mammals 6) Procedural memory 7) Emotion 8) EEG rythms 9) Neural control of food and liquid intake 10) Sleep and wake cycle 11) Selective attention and spatial attention 12) Mirror neurons 13) Sexual and parental behaviour 14) Language
Teaching methods
=Lectures and seminars
Reccomended or required readings
- Principi di Neuroscienze - Kandel
- Fondamenti di Fisiologia - Ediermes 2018
- Fisiologia del comportamento - Carlson - Piccin
Il cervello e la mente - Watson - Zanichelli
Reviews
Assessment methods
=Written test + oral examination
Further information
=Written test + oral examination
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030