Prof. Riccardo Brunetti

Argomenti del programma: 1) Art and Aesthetics 2) Art in the XXI century 3) Scientific approaches, psychology, and the arts 4) Psychological schools and the arts: Experimental aesthetics, psychoanalysis, R. Arnheim 5) Creation and fruition: Art as a laboratory for communication 6) Therapeutic approach: Art as cure 7) Art and the Other: childhood, madness, and creativity 8) The study of creativity

• All supplementary materials will be available on the Canvas platform after each lecture. These materials form an integral part of the examination programme for all students, whether attending or not.

Argomenti del programma: General Psychology (Brunetti): • Introduction: objectives, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches. • Sensation and Perception: fundamental principles of sensation and perceptual experience. • Attention: information selection and the allocation of cognitive resources. • Learning: traditional learning models and cognitive approaches.

Argomenti del programma: Cognitive psychology (1st semester; prof. Brunetti): - Historical introduction and main methodologies. - The Perception-Action link; Specific attentional effects. - Memory models and processes (Working and Long-term memory). - Knowledge representation. - Higher cognitive processes (problem solving, reasoning, decision making, consciousness) - Introduction to artificial intelligence.

Argomenti del programma: 1) Art and Aesthetics 2) Art in the XXI century 3) Scientific approaches, psychology, and the arts 4) Psychological schools and the arts: Experimental aesthetics, psychoanalysis, R. Arnheim 5) Creation and fruition: Art as a laboratory for communication 6) Therapeutic approach: Art as cure 7) Art and the Other: childhood, madness, and creativity 8) The study of creativity