Class Cognitive Neuroscience Applied to Cyberspace

The Curricular Unit (CU) entitled “Cognitive Neuroscience Applied to Cyberspace” has a semester duration, it has a total workload of 75 hours, 30 of which are contact hours, distributed between theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, seminars and tutorials. The main objectives of the course include providing students with knowledge of the neural bases of cognitive theories, research techniques in cognitive neuroscience, as well as cognitive dysfunctions associated with neurological and psychological disorders. In addition, the course covers the application of neuroimaging methods and the relevance of cognitive neuroscience in the context of human-computer interaction and cyberspace.

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Neuroscience of psychological functions Techniques of cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology Structural and functional neuroimaging Neuropsychological assessment Computerized tests for neuropsychological assessment Neuropsychological rehabilitation  Computerized instruments for neuropsychological rehabilitation Applications of cognitive neuroscience to understand behavior in human computer interaction contexts, including cyberspace: Language; Object recognition and spatial cognition; Attention; Learning and memory; Emotion, decision making and reward processing; Executive functions and social cognition; Consciousness and motor awareness

  These areas of application will be reviewed by students (tutored by the professor) and presented (in pairs) in the second part of the course. In the first part, students will participate in workshops demonstrating specific examples developed in our labs for which students will have to know in more detail and develop some mastery on their use.

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