Updated for 2019/2020: These units are not exclusive for students of the Cognitive Science program and may have limited capacity. For timetables, please check courses web pages or inquire the corresponding department.

Logics
Department of Philosophy

The students are expected to grasp and master a set of basic concepts, principles and techniques methods that are central to the following segments of modern formal logic: propositional logic, quantification theory and identity theory. We consider the following aspects of these logical theories: (a) the semantics for the logical constants involved therein - truth-functional sentence operators, quantifiers and the identity predicate - and a semantic notion of validity for the associated inferences; (b) the natural deduction rules - introduction and elimination rules - for those logical constants and a syntactic notion of validity for the associated inferences.

Theory of Knowledge
Department of Philosophy

The students are expected to grasp and master a set of concepts, theories, problems and arguments that are central to epistemology, either traditional or contemporary. With respect to the following topics, the course introduces the present state of their discussion by examining the main available views and discussing the main arguments for and against them: (a) the nature of knowledge; (b) varieties of knowledge; (c) the value of knowledge; (d) the nature of perception; (e) the existence and nature of a priori knowledge; (f) the skeptical challenge.

Critical Thinking
Department of Philosophy

Students should be able to: 1) Reconstruct and analyse arguments; 2) Evaluate arguments according to deductive standards; 3) Evaluate arguments according to inductive standards; 4) Identify and avoid fallacies; 5) Understand the fundamentals of probabilistic and decision-theoretic reasoning; 6) Understand the fundamentals of scientific reasoning; 7) Understand the fundamentals ethical reasoning.

Philosophy of Language, Logic and Mind I
Department of Philosophy

Módulo 1: Linguistic Communication 1. Communication at the heart of language: definitions, phenomena, problems 2. Language must be shared 3. Delivering messages to others 4. Conversation as mutual and rich 5. Conversation as both pointed and indeterminate Módulo 2: Linguagem e Realidade 1. Sentido e Referência 2. Atomismo Lógico de B. Russell 3. Atomismo Lógico de L. Wittgenstein Módulo 3: Fiction 1. Fiction as a proposal to imagine 2. The world of fiction 3. Reference and truth in fiction 4. Fictions in images 5. Fictionalism

Programing Fundamentals
Programing 1 LTI
Programing 1
Department of Informatics

This course aims at providing students with the skills to program in an object-oriented language, Python, in a way that it can be used as a tool to program solutions to small yet everyday relevant problems.

First Order Logic
Department of Mathematics

This is an introductory logic course. It focuses on the relation between formal languages and their interpretations. The aims are: 1) to introduce formal languages – via first-order languages – and discuss their syntax; (2) to interpret the formal languages (including the formalization of informal assertions) and to teach the deductive way of thinking (both formal and informal).

Machine Learning
Department of Informatics

1. Fundamentals of machine learning; 2. Concept learning; 3. Tree models: decision trees; 4. Rule models: rule lists, rule sets; 5. Linear models: linear regression, perceptron and backpropagation; 6. Distance-based models: k-nearest neighbors classification, k-means and hierarchical clustering; 7. Probabilistic models: naive Bayes,; 8. Additional topics: feature construction and selection, model evaluation and selection, learning in imbalanced datasets, model ensembles; etc

Human Biology
Department of Biology

To know representative fossil species in human evolution. To understanding the anatomical changes during human evolution. To recognize the role of genetic environmental and cultural factors across human evolution. To identify skeletal bones. To relate bone morphology with sexual dimorphism, age and disease. To characterize stages of the human life cycle and postnatal growth. To identify the biological and environmental factors that regulates growth and maturation. To characterize the reproductive period and hormonal regulation. To make and interpret anthropometric measurements and indices considering international references. To explorer the influence of environmental factor and life styles on growth, nutritional status and menarche age. To understand differences of stages of the human life cycle across human evolution. To explore the biological changes and diseases prevalence with aging. To characterize the determinants of reproductive life span. To relate age and reproduction. To understand the influence of environmental factor and life styles on fertility/infertility. To explorer and discuss health disorders and biological and environmental factors.

Biology of Stress
Department of Biology

To understand cellular processes associated with energy production, allocation and detoxification in organisms facing stress. To use several parameters as biomarkers to evaluate health status of organisms exposed to stress. To know the ecological relevance of those biomarkers. To determine stressful conditions according to alterations observed in biomarkers. To practice technical skills and analysis of results To work independently and in groups

General Pharmacology
Faculty of Medicine

The goalis to provide the student with relevant information to enable the understanding of the fundamentals of pharmacological intervention and pharmacological reasoning. By means of 1) the acquisition of a solid basis on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 2) the knowledge of molecular targets of each drug group as a principle to understand their pharmacological actions; 3) understanding the relationship between the function and dysfunction at the molecular, cellular, organ and system levels, the students should develop a rigorous pharmacological rationale so that, at the time of clinical practice, he/she can fully understand the mechanisms of action, the uses and limits of each class of drugs.

Neuroanatomy e Neuroimagiology (3 ECTs)
Classes 2 to 17 January; intensive regime.

Anatomical FunctionFunção Autonómica (3 ECTs)
Classes 20 to 31 de January; intensive regime. Faculty of Medicine

anaseb@fm.ul.pt

Social Cognition
Faculty of Psychology

Main Aim: To provide students with a conceptual map of Social Cognition. The specific themes included in the program will be fundamental from a conceptual point of view and/or highly relevant for the development of research in this subject. Other aims: i) Acquisition of basic knowledge on some of the main theoretical approaches in Social Cognition and the main bibliographical resources available. ii) Acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge that will enable the adoption of an active and critical attitude towards research in Social Cognition. This adoption of a critical attitude assumes: the ability to compare different approaches with regard to a substantive field of Social Cognition, the ability to examine the empirical back-up of these different approaches, the ability to reflect on the limitations of the research carried out and the ability to formulate problematic issues for future research.

Research Methods in Psychology: Basic Notions
Faculty of Psychology

1. What science is, the demarcation criteria, the scientific method, induction and refutability. 2. What effects are, what an explanation is, experimental and statistical control. 3. Hypothesis testing, experimental and factorial designs. 4. Validity, reliability, robustness, generality, replicability. 5. The practice of psychological research. 6. Scientific communication in Psychology: Oral and written forms of communication. The publication in psychology-APA editorial Style. 7. The methods of research in psychology.

Cultural Antropology
Faculty of Psychology

1. Nature and Culture 2. Organization and structure of society a) Kinship b) Economic Organization 3. Social control a) Political organization and forms of political power 4. Collective Representations a) Myths and Mythologies. b) Magic and Religion c) Ritual Systems

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Neuroscience of Reading
Faculty of Psychology

mferreira@psicologia.ulisbooa.pt

Phonology
Department of Linguistics

The following skills will be promoted within the focused curricular unit: (i) t o promote knowledge on the sound dimension of human languages, both in a descriptive and a communicative perspectives; (ii) t o set knowledge on the sound structures previously studied in other UC; (ii i) t o develop knowled ge on the grammatical tools used for the description of the phonological properties of human languages; (iv) t o study universal and idiosyncratic properties of the sound systems of the human lang uages; (v) t o systematically describe the phonological consti tuents of Portuguese; (vi) t o promote the analysis of phonological data from a comparative perspective; (vii) t o practice the phonological analysis of Portuguese.

Syntax
Department of Linguistics

This course offers an introduction to the study of the principles of sentence formation in natural languages, with a particular focus on Portuguese. Students are expected to identify the way words combine inside sentences and phrases . Work will focus on th e ability to analyze linguistic data, to describe relevant contrasts with an adequate metalanguage and to discuss hypotheses formulated to account for linguistic data. S tudents with success in this course must be able to: (i) know the operati ve concepts an d methods for analyzing syntactic data; (ii) know seminal work on syntax and integrate the information offered therein; (iii) acknowledge syntactic properties that characterize Portuguese in the context of European languages and, in particular, Romance lan guages; (iv) call upon acquired knowledge for solving new problems; (v) ask questions, suggest analyses and argue in favor of them.

Lexicon
Departamento de Linguística

Knowledge: (i) properties of the lexicon of natural languages, its nature, its internal structure and its relationship to other components of the grammar; (ii) mental lexicon and lexical knowledge properties of the lexicon of Portuguese: history, development and usage (iii) critical appraisal of the following concepts: lexical unit, word, multi-word lexical units; (iv) properties of lexical units; (v) lexical relationships. Skills: analysis and description of the lexicon of natural languages and of Portuguese, in particular.

Methodologies of Experimental Research
Departament of Linguistics

With this course we intend to provide students with a basic background in experimental research, particularly in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, for designing experiments, preparing stimuli and the selection of appropriate methodologies to test hypotheses. Students will have the opportunity to experience research techniques in laboratory, in different areas of linguistics and multidisciplinary studies. The main statistical tests applied in the analysis of linguistic data will also be addressed.