Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students): 

It is intended that students:

• deepen their study the relations between Nervous System and Behavior;
• understand the main cognitive functions with neurological reality;
• know the main models of normal cognitive functioning as well as how the analysis of patients with cognitive deficits contributes to the understanding of these functions;
• know the main contributes of the recent methods, namely imaging methods, to the understanding of cognitive functions;
• acquire skills of literature search and analysis in the field. 

Syllabus: 

• Introductory Concepts;
• Sensors;
• Hemispheric specialization and corpus callosum;
• Atention;
• Memory;
• Oral language;
• Writing and reading;
• The motor actor according to cognitive function: apraxias;
• Functions assigned to the frontal lobes.