Auxiliary Courses, Year 1 - Semester 2
Updated for 2018/2019: These units are not exclusive for students of the Cognitive Science program and may have limited capacity. For timetables, please check courses web pages or inquire the corresponding department.
Introduction to Probabilities and Statistics
Faculty of Sciences
Probabilities. Random variables and distributions. Descriptive statistics. Statistical inference.
Evolution
Faculty of Sciences
The course intends to give students a general and integrated perspective of theories of evolution and of current studies at several levels (genes, organisms, populations, species), focusing on the evolutionary history, on the mechanisms that generate variability / diversity, and on the processes and adaptations of living organisms to continuously changing environments. As a basic course, the students should develop general competences in every theme and main concepts, which are also demonstrated and debated on the theoretic-practical classes through videos and modeling exercises specifically framed to that purpose.
Memory Topics
Faculty of Psychology
General Aims: This course is primarily concerned with providing complementary training in the area of memory research and its applications. The course is articulated with other courses in the scientific area of cognitive ggchology and aims to provide further knowledge on different memory topics. A second important aim is to contribute to student training in terms of developing scientific research competences in this research area.
Statistics Applied to Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
The goal is to learn, apply and interpret the statistical analyses methods more commonly used in psychology. The topics discussed are key to the research in psychology, providing a basis to interpret results in scientific papers and to carry out data analysis in research projects. The program is focused on statistical inference.
Experimental Approaches to Child Language
Department of Linguistics
Students are expected (i) to acquire knowledge in the field of early language development; (ii) to get to know the methods and models used in infant language research; (iii) to apply the methods studied to specific research cases; (iv) to be able to question the methodological advantages and underpinnings of each method or model, taking into consideration the research question, data collection and analysis. It is expected that students will be able to set up an experiment in order to answer a specific research question.
Prosodic Structure and Meaning
Department of Linguistics
Linguistic Acquisition and Development/Acquistion and Development of Maternal and Non-maternal Language
Department of Linguistics
This curricular unit provides the necessary environ ment for students to develop the following skills: (i) to gather knowledge on the process of language acqu isition and language development; (ii) to be aware of the effect of universal and language specific pr operties in the process of language acquisition; (i ii) to develop the ability to analyze data pertaining to t he acquisition of natural languages, with particula r reference to Portuguese; (iv) to be aware of the ap plication of knowledge from language acquisition in the domains of Clinical and Educational Linguistics .
This is a wide scope UC . It develops contents and skills that started to be acquired in Syntax and relate s them with knowledge on the sentence informational structure and its discourse counterparts. Knowledge to be acquired : word order patterns in Portuguese sentences and their constituents. Their characterization and correlation with lexical features and sentence (sub)types; word order patterns and their discourse significance. Skills to be improved : aptitude of argumentatio n and analysis of empirical data. Competences to be devel oped : capacity of analysis of simple and complex sentences, focusing on: determination of the king of word order (canonical or non - canonical) of sentences and constituents; capacity of determining the structure related to each word order pattern in the sentence domain; capacity of isolating the triggers of word order changing; correlation of the non - canonical word order cases with the ir informational and discursive properties .
Semantics
Department of Linguistics
This course provides an introduction to the study of meaning in natural languages, with emphasis on Portuguese. Students are expected to identify the key components of meaning at the sentence level and to understand how compositionality works, when constituents are combined. Some semantic systems will be analysed in greater detail. Our central concern will be to develop the students’ ability to analyse linguistic data, to describe relevant contrasts with adequate metaling uistic tools, to pinpoint grammatical anomalies and to discuss hypotheses for problematic issues.
Ethics
Department of Philosophy
Students should be able to: 1) Understand the nature and structure of philosophical ethics; 2) Understand and evaluate the main philosophical theories of intrinsic value; 3) Understand and evaluate the main philosophical theories of moral duty; 4) Understand the main metaethical debates.
Philosophy of Mind
Department of Philosophy
1. The Problem of Action; 2. The Problem of Propositional Atitudes; 3. The Mind-Body Problem; 4. The Consciousness Problem; 5. The Determinism and Free-will Problem.
Philosophy of Language
Department of Philosophy
The students are expected to acquire the competences in the area of the Philosophy of Language, a discipline whose birth as such was at the beginning of the 20 th century. These competences involve grasping and mastering the concepts and fundamental proble matics of the discipline.
Neuropharmacology
Faculty of Medicine
To know more about this unit, please contact Professor Ana Sebastião, anaseb@medicina.ulisboa.pt
Neuroanatomy
Faculty of Medicine
To know more about this unit, please contact Professor Gonçalves Ferreira, ajgonfer@medicina.ulisboa.pt