Low, Sock Ching (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
Selective attention determines the sensory signals that are processed at higher levels at the expense of others and is biased by higher-order brain regions which anticipate task-relevant stimuli and ...
Pacheco Estefan, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
Human memory is fundamentally linked to experience. Traditionally, however, it has been studied in restricted tasks, under constrained experimental conditions. Understanding memory from a situated, ...
Zucca, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2015-02-13)
The human brain is undoubtedly the most complex product of evolution. Understanding how complex behaviour is generated by the intricacy of hundred billion of neurons and synapses fascinated scientists ...
Marcos Sanmartín, Encarni (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
Decisions are the result of a deliberative process that evaluates the suitability of specific options. Studies about decision making have been mainly conducted by using restricted tasks in which humans ...
Maier, Martina (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
The increase in stroke survivors poses a global challenge for the current health care system. The way that standard therapy is provided today impacts long-term disability and dependency in ADL insufficiently. ...
Santos-Pata, Diogo (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
Every animal on our planet wanders around when looking for something. Whether it is in search of food, a mate, or home, navigation is one of the most performed cognitive behaviors in Nature. Nevertheless, ...
Maffei, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations ...
Le Groux, Sylvain (Date of defense: 2011-05-19)
This thesis introduces a novel situated interactive composition system called the SMuSe (for Situated Music Server) that is grounded on principles of modern cognitive science, provides perceptual ...
Rubio Ballester, Belén (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Stroke represents one of the main causes of adult disability and will be one of the main contributors to the burden of disease in 2030. However, our healthcare systems do not have enough resources to ...
Da Silva Cameirao, Mónica (Date of defense: 2010-10-06)
Donat el nivell d'incidència i impacte de l'ictus, hi ha la necessitat de trobar mètodes de rehabilitació més automatitzats que els actuals. Un candidat prometedor és la Realitat Virtual, on múltiples ...