3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1024018BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
This course offers students an introduction into psycho- and neurolinguistics, with special attention for applications in the domains of linguistic and literary studies, applied linguistics, and artificial intelligence. The course covers the basic mental processes involved in each of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The language skills are discussed from the four most widely used approaches in the study of language and the brain: 1) the behavioural approach (psycholinguistics); 2) neuroimaging (neuroscience of language); 3) the clinical approach (neurolinguistics); and 4) the computational approach.
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Students know and have insight into the basic mental processes involved in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). They can recognise and explain the mutual relations between these processes.
Students can apply the acquired knowledge and insights to language practices, including second/foreign language acquisition/education, multilingual communication (translation/interpretation) and artificial intelligence.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
All information regarding evaluation will be announced timely on the online learning platform. The student is responsible for ensuring that he/she is registered on the online learning platform. If the student encounters problems with registration on the online learning platform, he/she is expected to notify the teacher as soon as possible by email.
The evaluation components are the same for the first and the second session.
Within this course, students have the opportunity to earn credit by participating in one or more experiments conducted within the titular research group. Students who cannot or do not wish to participate in the (full) experiment will be given a substitute assignment corresponding to the scope of the experiment.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-English
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-German
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-German
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: French-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: French-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Italian-Spanish