In this course, we will go through several state-of-the-art models of how the mind/brain implements memory, and processes language. The focus will be on how these models can be computationally implemented -- how they become pieces of software that can be used to simulate human behaviour and neural data.
We will focus specifically on semantic memory, implicit/statistical learning, reading and visual word identification, and eye movements during reading. The course will be a mixture of frontal lectures, seminars, hands-on laboratories with computational tools, case-based analyses, practical exercises, and group discussions on scientific journal papers – the precise mix of which will be adapted to the number of students attending. The overarching goal is that you become accustomed to approaching psychological and neural problems computationally -- thinking of the machine that might have generated any given behaviour.
The course calendar sits in the calendar page for the whole study Program (here).
- Enseignant: DAVIDE CREPALDI