Andrea Facoetti
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua
email: andreafacoetti@unipd.it

SSD:
M-PSI/02 (Psychobiology)

Aim:
To introduce the cognitive and neurobiological basis of attentional processing and its relationship with language-based learning disabilities

Course content:
What attention is, how it is measured, the different types of attention, phonological and orthographic development. Attentional mechanisms, perceptual modulation, spatial, non-spatial and selective attention, phoneme perception and letter string perception.

Syllabus:
1. Physiology of attention
2. Psychology of attention
3. Physiology of reading
4. Psychology of reading
5. Applications

Course requirements:
Attendance of Elements of cognitive neuroscience (part A: SENSORY)
Examination and grading:
Questionnaire, presentation

Schedule:
26 April 10.30-13.30, meeting room n.1 at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, via Venezia 8 *
27 April 10.30-13.30, meeting room n.1 at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, via Venezia 8 *
29 April 10-14, meeting room n.1 at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, via Venezia 8 *
* once you are in the building hall, with the entrance doors behind you, the meeting room is the first room on the left

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