Navarrete Sánchez, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2007-01-10)
Speaking can be considered a goal-directed behavior because speakers have to retrieve the appropriate words and phonemes from their mental lexicon. However, observational and experimental evidence ...
Vaquero Zamora, Lucía (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
It has been shown that music and language training can elicit plastic changes on brain structure and function bringing along behavioural benefits. For instance, musicians have been reported to have ...
Rodríguez Herreros, Borja (Date of defense: 2014-06-03)
The complex voluntary motor behavior of higher primates is often regarded as a consequence of the development of sophisticated and adaptive perceptual and motor systems. Theoretical and behavioral ...
Liutsko, Liudmila (Date of defense: 2013-10-10)
This PhD thesis contributes to a synthesis of the bibliographic material reviewed from original sources written in various languages (and thus sometimes unknown in the scientific community at international ...
González Franco, Mar (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
Several studies have shown that it is possible to substitute a person’s body by a virtual one giving rise to illusions of ownership and agency with respect to the virtual body. The effects and traces ...
Kishore, Sameer (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
It has been shown that with appropriate multisensory stimulation an illusion of owning an artificial object as part of their own body can be induced in people. Such body ownership illusions have been ...
Miralles Ortiz, Cibeles (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
There is a new trend in organizational psychology to address the transient nature of constructs through intra-individual studies. This approach is mostly used to understand phenomena which are highly ...
López-Fernández, Olatz (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
This thesis focuses on the development and adaptation of psychometric scales to evaluate the problematic use of Internet and the mobile phone in adolescents in Barcelona and London. It aims to describe ...
Vicente Guirado, Unai (Date of defense: 2022-06-29)
Conformity is the act of changing one’s behaviour to adjust to other human beings. It is a crucial social adaptation that happens when people cooperate, where one sacrifices their own perception, ...
de Salvador de Arana, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This study aims at improving English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing instruction at secondary level by implementing a blended instructional design that may foster self-regulation through public ...