Poliński, Patrik (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Microexons are an unusual form of alternative splicing with high evolutionary conservation, however, their functions are still far from being understood. In this thesis, we focused on a neuronal-specific ...
Özer, Ege Ekin (Date of defense: 2024-03-21)
In this thesis, we explored neural entrainment as a potential mechanism to underline the behavioral evidence that certain phonological properties of listeners’ native language affects speech segmentation. ...
Shekari, Mahnaz (Date of defense: 2024-04-03)
This thesis explores technical factors influencing brain PET quantification, developing brain PET harmonization framework, assessing Centiloid robustness as a clinical biomarker, and evaluating the ...
Ibáñez Soria, David (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
In the last decade recurrent neural networks have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Their cyclic connections provide them with memory and thus with the capability of modeling processes ...
Manubens-Gil, Linus (Date of defense: 2018-01-18)
During the last century the nervous system has been mainly studied from a reductionistic approach, based on the hypothesis that understanding in depth single neurons or limited neuronal populations would ...
Turuban, Maxime (Date of defense: 2024-05-15)
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) exposure, ubiquitous in our environment due to the rise in mobile phones and wireless technology, has grown significantly in the last 30 years. This exposure ...
Cumplido Mayoral, Irene (Date of defense: 2024-06-07)
This thesis explores the links between neuroimaging-derived brain-age, which is computed using machine learning techniques, and different pathophysiological mechanisms, dementia risk factors and cognitive ...
Álvarez González, Francisco Nurudín (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)
Representation learning is the field of modern machine learning focused on automatically producing useful representations from data. This thesis studies the impact of data volumes, annotation perspectives, ...
Alenyà Sistané, Mireia (Date of defense: 2024-02-19)
This dissertation presents a novel computational pipeline for creating patient-specific models of brain development. Initially, the human brain develops from a smooth to a convoluted cortical surface, ...
Drew, Alice (Date of defense: 2024-02-01)
Our everyday perception of the world is remarkably unambiguous, considering that it stems from a multitude of ambiguous sensory signals. This feat is believed to be achieved by a set of perceptual ...