- Docente: Barbara Monti
- Credits: 5
- SSD: BIO/09
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Bioinformatics (cod. 0443)
Learning outcomes
This course is focused on information-processing, coding and storage and on action-plan and execution by the nervous system, including movement, language and speech. It refers to cognitive processes and to physiological, cellular and molecular mechanisms which underlie these functions.
Course contents
Introduction to neuroscience: basic anatomy of the nervous systems; structure and function of neurons;
· Methods in cognitive neurosciences;
· From sensory inputs to action: somatic, visual, auditory, and chemical sensory systems; motor control;
· Plasticity during development and in the adult brain;
· Learning and memory;
· Cognitive basis of emotion;
· Consciousness and sleep;
· Language and speech; brain lateralization.
Readings/Bibliography
Kandel ER, Schwartz JH, Jessell TM. Principles of Neural Science, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Puves D, et al. Neuroscience, 3rd ed., 2004, Sinauer Associates Inc.
Gazzaniga M.S., The Cognitive Neurosciences III: Third Edition, Bradford Books, 2004.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral interview.
Teaching tools
Power point slides projection.
Office hours
See the website of Barbara Monti