C.I. STRUTTURA E FUNZIONI DEL SISTEMA NERVOSO E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA
Module PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MARINELLA COCO

Expected Learning Outcomes

For the purposes of the assessment, the teacher will take into account:

Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of the fundamentals of physiological psychology, with particular reference to cognitive domains.

Applied knowledge and understanding: Acquisition of knowledge of psycho-physiological mechanisms and possible alterations.

Autonomy of judgment: Ability to synthesize and compare the psycho-physiological (eg attention, memory, executive functions) in the healthy population and in atypical populations.

Communication skills: Ability to communicate the contents learned during the course with a personal style and with appropriate terminology.

Ability to learn: Ability to understand, analyze and process the contents of physiological psychology and neuroscience texts, in order to be able to undertake subsequent in-depth studies independently.

Course Structure

frontal teaching

Required Prerequisites

no prerequisite

Attendance of Lessons

The teaching will be carried out with lectures.

Detailed Course Content

Attentional processes and neglect.

Memory and Savant's syndrome.

The language and his ailments.

The dream and the dreams.

Sex and the brain

Intelligence and executive functions.

Art and brain.

Psycho-physiological aspects of religion and death.

Smile and the figure of Pacth Adams.

Visual imagination

Full reading and commentary on the book: “Gratitude”, by Oliver Sacks, Adelphi

Textbook Information


Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral 

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Can you tell me about the architecture of sleep?

Differences Between Non-REM Sleep and REM Sleep.

What is the Neglect?

Differences between automatic and voluntary attention.