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Introduction to Language Biology and Psychophysiology - APS300474E
Title: Introduction to Language Biology and Psychophysiology
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2023 to 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: 13
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: APS300474
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Filip Smolík, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Radka Hradcová (27.09.2023)
This is an introduction to the biological underpinnings of human language. It is meant especially for linguists and
social scientists who have limited bacground in biology and neuroscience. The course will emphasize the value of
biological and neuroscience research for addressing various questions traditionally asked in linguistics.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: Radka Hradcová (27.09.2023)

1. Participation in the group discussions of readings, providing a short (max. 1 page, bullet points) summary of the assigned paper.

2. Final multiple-choice or short-answer test at the end of the semester.

Teaching methods -
Last update: Radka Hradcová (27.09.2023)

Presentations by the lecturer, discussions of readings and assigned audiovisual materials,o summaries of readings by students.

Syllabus -
Last update: Radka Hradcová (27.09.2023)

Topics:

1. Neuron, neural system, action potential, brain and its parts.

2. Methods: PET, fMRI, EEG/ERP, MEG, NIRS, pupillometry. Brain areas related to language.

3. Aphasias: basic classification, classic models.

4. Aphasia: modern research fidnings.

6. Electrophysiology research: N400, P600, ELAN, use of MMN.

7. Neuroimaging research on word perception/production, semantics, conceptual representations

8. Neuroimaging research on syntactic and sentence-level sematnic representations.

9. Current models of langauge representation.

10. Developmental language disorders. Heritability of language.

11. Human genetics: basic concepts. Heritability, research methods in behavioral/cognitive genetics.

12. Nature and nurture in language: conceptual and methodological considerations:

13. Genetics and the study of languages across the world, diachronic research.

Entry requirements - Czech
Last update: Radka Hradcová (27.09.2023)

Není určeno pro studenty 1.roč. Bc.

 
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