University of Trento - CiMEC

Comprehensive lecture notes from the course Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience II, covering 18 lectures from April to June. Topics span the neural and cognitive bases of culturally acquired skills and social behavior, including: Cultural recycling of cortical maps – how ancient neural circuits are repurposed for reading, mathematics, and other learned skills Number sense and mathematics – from innate numerosity perception in infants and animals to symbolic arithmetic, dyscalculia, and a...

These are comprehensive, well-organized lecture notes for the course Foundations of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience I. Notes cover the entire programme across 21 lessons, including: history of neuroscience and neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI, MEG, TMS), visual processing hierarchy (V1–V5, dorsal/ventral streams, object recognition, MVPA, retinotopic encoding), attention networks (DAN, VAN, IOR, spatial/feature/object attention), episodic and semantic memory (hippocampus, HM case, BIC ...

These are detailed, well-structured lecture notes for the Clinical Neurology and Neuropsychology course. Notes cover the full programme across 19 lectures, including: neuropsychological assessment tools (MMSE, MoCA, FAB, TMT, Stroop, Tower of London, FCSRT, Rey list); neurodegenerative diseases and differential diagnosis (Alzheimer's disease, bvFTD, PPA variants, Parkinson's disease, PSP, CBS, Lewy body dementia); biomarkers (ATN model, CSF, FDG-PET, MRI); memory systems and amnesia; front...