Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences to analyse a particular situation involving speech therapy
• Identify and explain the concepts, principles, and models of basic theoretical approaches in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences and their applications
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of psychology, educational sciences and language sciences, and their relationship to other contributory disciplines
• Describe the main methodological approaches (goals, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals and groups
• Grow personally and professionally
• Develop their scientific curiosity and open-mindedness
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology, educational sciences and speech therapy
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of scientific processes

Learning Outcomes of UE

The course is devoted to the study of the cognitive processes involved in the perception, understanding and production of spoken language as well as the disorders associated with these three language tasks. An epistemological vision of the development and validation of models will be proposed. The examination of the possibilities of applying theoretical models to clinical practice will be discussed. A description of research methods specific to neuropsycholinguistics (lexical decision, priming, etc.) as well as current research trends and questions (connectionism, dual track, theories of language acquisition, brain imaging techniques) will be also offered.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Objectives, evolution and methods in psycholinguistics.
Speech perception: empirical,  theoretical data,models and disorders 
Lexical access: psycholinguistic variables
Production: empirical , theoretical data ,models and disorders .

Prior Experience

Not applicable