DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Languages
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year - COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Curriculum and LINGUISTIC Curriculum
Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Languages
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year - COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Curriculum and LINGUISTIC Curriculum
Language - Langage & Cognition
6 CFU - 2° Semester
Teaching Staff
MARCO MAZZONE - Module Language and cognition - M-FIL/05 - 3 CFUSEBASTIANO VECCHIO - Module Langage et Cognition - M-FIL/05 - 3 CFU
Detailed Course Content
- Language and cognition
Micro and macro-structure of the brain. Modularism, nativism and alternative hypotheses. The prefrontal cortex and executive functions. What is to be smart and how we get it.
Textbook Information
- Language and cognition
E. Goldberg, The executive brain. Frontal lobes and the civilized mind, Oxford University Press.
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