- Docente: Piero Amodio
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF ACTION
- Docente: Umberto Castiello
- Docente: Patrizia Bisiacchi
- Docente: Antonino Vallesi
- Docente: Cesare Cornoldi
- Docente: Marco Zorzi
- Docente: Gianluca Campana
- Docente: Antonino Vallesi
Diseases of the brain affect cognitive, behaviour and motor aspects of human beings. This course will provide an overview of the mechanisms leading to neruodegeneration as well as of the neurochemical and neuroanatomical hallmarks in brain diseases. It will focus on their clinical manifestations and therapeutical approach including pharmachology and rehabilitation.
Topics: Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, Tourette Syndrome, Tauopathies including Progressive Sopranuclear Palsy, Corticobasal syndrome, Fronto-temporal dementia, Stroke, Epilepsy, Multiple sclerosis
- Docente: Angelo Antonini
Educational And Training Objectives
The course presents an integrated approach to cognition and shows how cognition is shaped by evolution, learning, and culture.
Course content
An integrated approach to cognition aims at bridging the gap between various levels of analysis (from neurons to behaviour) and exploits recent advances in the development of formal models. Numerical cognition is used as a case study to show how interdisciplinary research spanning a variety of methods and subject populations offers a coherent and integrated path towards understanding how cognition is shaped by evolution, learning, and culture.
Topics: animal cognition; cognitive development; neural bases of cognition; cultural effects on cognition; embodied cognition; computational modeling of cognition
- Docente: Marco Zorzi