- Docente: Anna Maria Borghi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 0957)
Course contents
The course will focus on the following topics: Memory processes and
systems; Working memory; Autobiographic memory Semantic memory:
traditional view Semantic memory: embodied perspective;
Memory and categorization; Kinds of concepts: artefacts and natural
objects, living and non living; Concepts of artefacts and tools;
Hierarchical levels of categorization; Category specific
deficits; Abstract concepts: main theories; Concepts,
cultures and languages
Readings/Bibliography
Program for students who follow the course: Chapters:
1)Job R., Cubelli R. (a cura di) PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI COGNITIVI,
Roma: Carocci, 2012 (Capitolo 5)
2) Caruana, F., Borghi, A. (2016). Il cervello in azione. Bologna: Il Mulino (Chapters 1 and 6.)
At least one English paper among the following ones (all can be
downloaded from google scholar)
1) Barsalou, L. (2016) On staying grounded and avoiding Quixotic dead ends. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review,doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1028-3.
2) Gallese V. (2008). Mirror neurons and the social nature of language: The neural exploitation hypothesis. [http://old.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/pubs/pdffiles/Gallese/Social_Neuroscience_2008.pdf] Social Neuroscience, 2008, 3: 317-333.
3) Prinz, J.J. (2005). The return of concept empiricism. Handbook of categorization in cognitive science, 679-699.For students who do not follow the course: not only the 4 chapters and the English paper, but also one book chosen among the following ones: 1) Vannucci M. QUANDO LA MEMORIA CI INGANNA: LA PSICOLOGIA DELLE FALSE MEMORIE, Roma: Carocci, 2008. 2) Di Domenico A., Mammarella N. La memoria autobiografica. Roma: Carocci, 2012; 3) C.Papagno, NEUROPSICOLOGIA DELLA MEMORIA. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010..
Teaching methods
- Lectures - exercises on experimental method - presentation of students' essays and discussion
Assessment methods
For students who will follow the course:
The exam will consist in the writing and presentation of a group
work, which will be discussed during the last lectures.
The exam will consist in an oral discussion.
Teaching tools
The pdf files with the slides will be published after one week from the presentation in class on Anna Borghi's personal web site, http://laral.istc.cnr.it/borghi/.
Office hours
See the website of Anna Maria Borghi