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Cognitive Processes II

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Base Knowledge

It is recommended that students have already acquired notions of neuroanatomy  of the head and auditory system, in order to understand the concepts that will be taught.

Teaching Methodologies

Theoretical-practical lectures with audiovisual resources; viewing videos and scientific experiences within the area of curricular unit, group works; availability and analysis of scientific articles; clarification of doubts to students in the teachers’ offices /at a distance.
Possibility of online classes up to 20%.

Learning Results

This curricular unit aims to provide students with:
The ability to identify the processes involved in the various cognitive processes, such as perception, attention, decision making, as well as their practical implications in the area of Audiology.
Knowledge of the models and theories associated with each of these domains.
The development of critical and analytical skills required to approach the knowledge produced in these areas, in order to obtain a global perspective of information processing.

Program

Neuroplasticity and Development. Sensory substitution and synaptic plasticity. Effects of hearing loss on plasticity. Cross-modal plasticity in hearing loss. Brain changes across the lifespan.

Sensory Integration. Theories of perception: Unimodal and multimodal perception, neurological bases and integration; Visual perception; Auditory perception; Audiovisual and multisensory perception.

Attention: Classification and main functions/types; Automatic and controlled processing; Cognitive theories/models of attention; Experimental paradigms for the study of attention.

Decision-Making: The role of perception, attention, emotion, and memory in decision-making; Concepts of risk and uncertainty; Probability and expected utility; Value-based decision-making; The role of cognitive and emotional appraisal in the decision-making process.

Signal Detection Theory (SDT): Signal and noise in SDT; Signal Detection Matrix; Categories of criterion placement; Concepts of sensitivity and specificity; The application of Signal Detection Theory to the analysis of decision-making processes.

Curricular Unit Teachers

Cláudia Isabel Trindade dos Reis

Grading Methods

Continuous evaluation:
The final classification is constituted by the evaluation made in the T/P matrix.
The T/P evaluation consists of a work with a weight of 30% and a written frequency with a 70% weight.
- Evaluation by work will have a weight of 30% in the final classification and the minimum grade must be 9.5 values.
- Assessment by frequency will have a weight of 70% in the final classification and the minimum grade must be 9.5 values.


Exam Evaluation
- Written exam and the minimum grade must be 9.5 values.


    Internship(s)

    NAO

    Bibliography

    Main Bibliography:

    • Alais, D., Newell, F., & Mamassian, P. (2010). Multisensory Processing in Review: from Physiology to Behaviour. Seeing and Perceiving, 23(1), 3-38.
    • Anderson, C. A., Lazard, D. S., & Hartley, D. E. (2017). Plasticity in bilateral superior temporal cortex: Effects of deafness and cochlear implantation on auditory and visual speech processing. Hearing research, 343, 138-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2016.07.013
    • Calvert, G. A., Spence, C., & Stein, B. E. (2004). The handbook of multisensory processes. MIT Press
    • Gelfand, S. (2010). Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics (5th ed.). London: Informa Healthcare.
    • Lentz, J. J. (2020). Psychoacoustics: perception of normal and impaired hearing with audiology applications. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.
    • Kollmeier B, Klump G, Hohmann V, Langemann U, Mauermann M, Uppenkamp S and Verhey JL, (2007). Hearing-From Sensory Processing to Perception. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    • Kral, A., & Sharma, A. (2023). Crossmodal plasticity in hearing loss. Trends in neurosciences, 46(5), 377-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2023.02.004
    • Pesnot Lerousseau, J., Arnold, G. & Auvray, M. Training-induced plasticity enables visualizing sounds with a visual-to-auditory conversion device. Sci Rep 11, 14762 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94133-4
    • Schnupp, J., Nelken, I., & King, A. (2011). Auditory neuroscience: Making sense of sound. Cambridge: MIT Press.
    • Sourav, S., Kekunnaya, R., Bottari, D., Shareef, I., Pitchaimuthu, K., & Röder, B. (2024). Sound suppresses earliest visual cortical processing after sight recovery in congenitally blind humans. Communications biology, 7(1), 118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05749-3
    • Sternberg, R. J. & Sternberg, K. (2017). Cognitive Psychology. 6th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
    • Wingfield A and Peelle JE (2015) The effects of hearing loss on neural processing and plasticity. Front. Syst. Neurosci. 9:35. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00035

     

    Recommended:

    • Costandi, M. Neuroplasticity (2016). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    • Goldstein, E. B. (2019). Sensation and perception (11th ed.). Cengage Learning.
    • Hurley, R. & Fulton, S. (2007). Psychoacoustic considerations and implications for the diagnosis of (C)APD. In F. Musiek, & G. Chermak, Handbook of (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder: Auditory neuroscience and diagnosis. (pp. 13-51). San Diego: Plural Publishing, Inc.
    • Lee, A., Wallace, M., Coffin, A., Popper, A. & Fay, R. (2019). Multisensory Processes. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Springer Nature Switzerland.
    • Mather, G. (2009). Foundations of sensation and perception. Hove; Psychology Press.
    • Murray, M.M, Wallace, M.T, (2012). The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press/Taylor & FrancisParasuraman, R. (Ed.) (2000). The attentive Brain. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
    • Quartz, S.R. (2009). Reason, emotion and decision-making: risk and reward computation with feeling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13:209-215.
    • Rangel, A, Camerer, C & Montague, PR (2008). A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making. Nat Rev Neurosci 9:545-556.
    • Weber, EU & Johnson, EJ (2009). Mindful Judgment and Decision Making. Annu Rev Psychol 60:53-85.
    • Yost, W., Popper, A., Fay, R. (2008). Auditory Perception of Sound Sources. Chicago: Springe