Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
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3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Philosophy and Theory of Language (2021/2022)
The teaching is organized as follows:
Learning outcomes
Human Language Study
Oral and written language comprehension
Oral and written language production
Program
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENTAL AGE
Introduction to the psychology of the developmental age, themes, mechanisms and contexts.
Theoretical issues, deepening of theories centered on emotional development and attachment, deepening of theories on cognitive development and comparison of the positions of Piaget and Vygotsky, deepening of neuro socio constructivist theories, notes on plasticity and brain development. Individual and environmental factors in the development of resilience and vulnerability protection factors. Perspectives on the role of context and family and parenting styles. Typical and atypical development in comparison.
Neonatal period and up to 2 years: pre- and post-natal continuity; behavioral states; perceptive, expressive, regulatory and intersubjective skills; emotional-relational development; motor and cognitive development; prerequisites in the verbal and non-verbal area, language development.
Early childhood and school age: cognitive development; development of thought, narrative language and autobiographical memory; development of graphic representation; development of executive functions in cognitive processes; regulation of emotions, distortions and temperamental disorders and consequences for self-esteem; relational dynamics in the peer group; development of identity and awareness of the Self; role of motivation in learning.
Pre-adolescent and adolescent age: developmental tasks and changes in the biological, sexual, affective-emotional and cognitive areas; the separation process individuation; identity representation, changes in social relationships and family ties.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
Language Learning
Language learning in newborns
Cooing
Lallation
Innate Factors: LAD, LASS
Critical Periods
Scholar Age
McGurk effect
Learning of multiple languages
Bilingualism
Revised Hierarchical Model
Bilingual Word Processing
Neural Basis of Bilinguals
American Sign Language
Neural Basis of Language
Anatomy and Lesions
Language Areas Variability
Category Specific Areas
Hemispheric Specialization for Language
Split-Brain: Right Olfactory Anomia, Left Tactile Anomia
Linguistic Abilities of the Right Hemisphere
Congenital Deficits of Language
Global Deafness
Down Syndrome
Autistic Syndrome
Superficial and Phonological Dyslexia
Dysgraphia
Acquired Deficits of Language
Anterior and Posterior Lesions
Fluent and Non-Fluent Afasia
Broca's Afasia
Wernicke's Afasia
Sensory and Motor Transcortical Afasia
Conduction Afasia
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Language
Comprehension and Production
Hemispheric Specialization and Manual Preference
Language Neuroanatomical substrates
Vocal and No-Vocal, Linguistic and No-Linguistic features
Language in Primates
Neuroanatomical localization of Semantic, Syntactic, Phonological and Prosodic features of human language
Fast Mapping
Language and Communication
Language and Communication of Thoughts
No-verbal communication
Comprehension
Auditory Comprehension
Sounds segmentation
Syllable
Semantic Priming
Syntactic analysis
Words recognition
Logogen Model
Pandemonium Model
Comprehension: Reading
Grapheme-Phoneme transformation
Phonological and Assembled strategy
Reading and eye movements
Syntactic Analyzer: Minimal Attachement, Delayed Closing, Minimal Chain
Electrophysiological correlates of Word Comprehension
N400 e Cloze Probability
P600, ELAN, LAN
Production
Production: Planning and Execution
Conversation
Writing
Alphabetical and Logographic systems
Mirror System and Language
Description of the Mirror System in primates and in humans
Imitation
Mirros System and Language, Gestures as Protolanguage
Bibliography
Examination Methods
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL AGE
At the end of the course the student must demonstrate that he has acquired full mastery in the theoretical field and autonomous ability to contextualize it to crucial issues related to development processes.
The evaluation will take into account four dimensions: knowledge of theoretical contents; ability to use a language appropriate to the contents studied; knowledge of the appropriate methodologies and tools in the various themes; ability to critically rework the contents studied.
The exam will take place in oral form.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
multiple choice test: 15 questions with 3 response options each
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
multiple choice test: 7 questions with 3 response options each
