Teaching code

4S000167

Credits

5

Coordinator

Massimo Girelli

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

PSYCHOLINGUISTIC MODULE Educational objectives: Language Learning and Languages ​​Neural Bases of the Language Congenital Deficit of the Deficit Language Language Acquisitions COGNITIVE LANGUAGE PSYCHOLOGY MODULE Educational objectives: Study of Human Language Oral and written comprehension Oral and written production MODULE OF EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS PSYCHOLOGY Training objectives: The course is aimed at understanding and deepening the principles and methods of investigation of developmental psychology. The student will be offered 1) knowledge of the main theories underlying psychological development reading models, 2) the characteristics of development processes within the different psychological domains, 3) the development of these processes within the different evolutionary phases of the child, from neonatal to adolescent, 4) the critical knowledge of the complex relationship existing between individual components (nature) and environmental components (nurture) and the role played by protection factors and risk indicators for the analysis of individual differences. At the end of the course the student must demonstrate to have acquired full mastery in the theoretical and critical and autonomous capacity to contextualize it in crucial questions related to development processes.

Program

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 Cognitive Psychology

- 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

Developmental Psychology in all the relevant ages:

Neonatal
Infancy
Childhood
Scholar Age
Puberty
Adolescence

Bibliography

Examination Methods

For the General Psychology and the Cognitive Psychology of Language courses: multiple choice test: 15 questions with 3 response options each

For the Developmental Psychology: written exam, 4 open questions