ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Areas: Psychobiology
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To successfully complete this course, students should:
- understand the biological basis of human behavior and psychological processes through cognitive neuroscience, its contributions and limitations, and be able to explain human behavior from this perspective.
- know, at a basic and general level, the biological foundations of higher cognitive processes such as attention, memory, language, response processes and executive functions.
- acquire experience, at an introductory level, in the use of psychophysiological recording techniques and procedures used to study cognitive processes.
1. Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
Goals and methods of Cognitive Neuroscience. Introduction to techniques and procedures used to study the neural bases of cognitive processes.
2. Attention
Basic processes of attention: Exogenous vs. endogenous attention. Neural bases of attention: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological substrates of attentional networks. Alerting, orienting and executive attention. Emotional influences on attention. Recording of psychophysiological correlates of attention in humans using non-invasive electrophysiology.
3. Memory
Neural bases of memory: neuranatomical and neurophysiological substrates of memory systems and processes. Memory systems: short-term memory and long-term memory; declarative memory and non-declarative memory. Memory processes: encoding, storage and retrieval. Emotional influences on memory. Recording of psychophysiological correlates of memory in humans using non-invasive electrophysiology.
4. Language
Neural bases of language: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological substrates. Language and hemispheric specialization. Language acquisition. Language comprehension and production. Recording of psychophysiological correlates of language in humans using non-invasive electrophysiology.
5. Response processes
Neural bases of response processes and motor cognition: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological substrates of the mechanisms of motor response selection and preparation, action observation and motor imagination. Recording of psychophysiological correlates of response-related processes in humans using non-invasive electrophysiology.
6. Neural bases of executive functions: behavioural planning, goal-directed behaviour; behavioural and emotional control; flexibility. The prefrontal cortex. Emotional influences on executive processes. Recording of psychophysiological correlates of executive functions in humans using non-invasive electrophysiology
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Maria Elena Amenedo Losada
- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- Phone
- 881813799
- elena.amenedo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Socorro Rodríguez Holguín
Coordinador/a- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- Phone
- 881813911
- rodriguez.holguin [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Jesus Cespon Gonzalez
- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- jesus.cespon [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
Sara Alvarez Delgado
- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Psychobiology
- Phone
- 881813680
- saraalvarez.delgado [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish, Galician | Classroom 6 |
| 14:00-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 5 |
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| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 5 |
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 6 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 3 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 5 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 5 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 6 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 6 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 7 |
| 01.09.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 7 |
| 06.24.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |
| 06.24.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 3 |
| 06.24.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 5 |
| 06.24.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 5 |
| 06.24.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 7 |
| 06.24.2025 12:30-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 7 |