Corso di laurea magistrale in Scienze del corpo e della mente

Mind-brain plasticity, motivation and learning

Mind-brain plasticity, motivation and learning

Anno accademico 2024/2025

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Programma
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Attività di supporto
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Note
• Strumenti didattici
• Scheda del corso

Obiettivi formativi

The main objective of the 32-hour module is to deepen the study of brain plasticity, learning, and motivation phenomena. Special attention will be dedicated to learning processes (examined from both a behavioral and neurophysiological perspective) and factors that can promote it, such as individuals' intrinsic motivation.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

Provide students with advanced knowledge regarding brain plasticity and learning phenomena, encouraging their ability to critically evaluate the topics addressed.

Programma

• What is brain plasticity and how it can be observed and measured
• Analysis techniques (behavioral and electrophysiological) of learning and memory processes.
• Promoting plasticity and learning: the importance of intrinsic motivation.
• Subjective aesthetic preferences as a tool to enhance learning and intrinsic motivation.

Modalità di insegnamento

The class (32 hours) is composed of in-person frontal lectures.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Oral (verbalizing) exam at the end of the course.

The exam material will consist of the slides and materials provided by the professors during the course, plus 3 scientific articles (suggested during the class).

Attività di supporto

Professor's reception time: please email me at: irene.ronga@unito.it to schedule a meeting.

Students with specific learning disability should visit this page: https://en.unito.it/services/students-special-needs/students-specific-learning-disability-sld

1. The slides presented in class.

2. Three articles chosen from those presented in class.

Here is a list of some of the articles you can select:

De Felice, S., Vigliocco, G., & Hamilton, A. (2021). Social interaction is a catalyst for adult human learning in online contexts. Current biology : CB, 31(21), 4853-;4859.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.045

Sarasso, P., Ronga, I., Del Fante, E. et al. Physical but not virtual presence of others potentiates implicit and explicit learning. Sci Rep 12, 21205 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25273-4

Shteynberg, G. (2010). A silent emergence of culture: The social tuning effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(4), 683-;689. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019573

Sarasso, P., Neppi-Modona, M., Sacco, K., & Ronga, I. (2020). "Stopping for knowledge": The sense of beauty in the perception-action cycle. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 118, 723-;738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.09.004

Sarasso, P., Barbieri, P., Del Fante, E., Bechis, L., Neppi-Modona, M., Sacco, K., & Ronga, I. (2022). Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 29(6), 2108-;2121. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02127-8

Sacco, K., Ronga, I., Perna, P., Cicerale, A., Del Fante, E., Sarasso, P., & Geminiani, G. C. (2022). A Virtual Navigation Training Promotes the Remapping of Space in Allocentric Coordinates: Evidence From Behavioral and Neuroimaging Data. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 16, 693968. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.693968

Barbieri, P., Sarasso, P., Lodico, F., Aliverti, A., Murayama, K., Sacco, K., & Ronga, I. (2024). The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 379(1895), 20220413. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0413

Dresler, M., Shirer, W. R., Konrad, B. N., Müller, N. C. J., Wagner, I. C., Fernández, G., Czisch, M., & Greicius, M. D. (2017). Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory. Neuron, 93(5), 1227-;1235.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.003

Sarasso, P., Ronga, I., Kobau, P., Bosso, T., Artusio, I., Ricci, R., & Neppi-Modona, M. (2020). Beauty in mind: Aesthetic appreciation correlates with perceptual facilitation and attentional amplification. Neuropsychologia, 136, 107282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107282

Note

Class attendance is recommended but not mandatory. In case attending the course is not possible, please refer to the program for non-attending students (the professors are always available via email in case of doubts).

It is advised for students to enroll in the course both on the course homepage and on Moodle in order to receive useful information via email.

The slides presented during lectures will be available from the day of the lecture on the course website, in the course materials section.

Recording of lectures will not be provided.

Lectures will be held exclusively in person.

The module consists of 32 hours. The final grade is expressed on a scale of thirty.

• Materiale didattico
• Bacheca appelli
• Orario lezioni
• Vai a Moodle
• Registrati a questo insegnamento
• Studenti registrati
• Invia email agli studenti registrati
• Esporta tabella