Language and cognition

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.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

English

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Esli Struys
Stefanie Keulen (course titular)
Mathieu Declerck

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

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.

Course material

Digital course material (Recommended) : Presented by the lectur

Additional info

Learning Outcomes

General Competence

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.

Grading

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:

Written exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: Digitaal examen

Additional info regarding evaluation

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.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context