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    Multisensory processing and agency in VR embodiment: Interactions through BCI and their therapeutic applications 

    Nierula, Birgit (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)

    Body ownership refers to the experience that this body is my body and is closely linked to consciousness. Multisensory integration processes play an important role in body ownership as shown in the rubber hand illusion, ...

    Music-supported Therapy in the rehabilitation of motor deficits after stroke 

    Grau Sánchez, Jennifer (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)

    Motor deficits of the upper extremity are present in the majority of stroke patients, having a significant impact on their autonomy and quality of life. The recovery of motor deficits after stroke mainly relies on ...

    Neural signatures of semantic anticipation in sentence comprehension 

    León-Cabrera, Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)

    It has been proposed that the human brain is a proactive processor. Rather than passively receiving information, it is seen as continuously attempting to predict what will happen next. In the domain of language, ...

    Neural signatures of word learning in adults and children: a multi-methodological approach 

    Ramos Escobar, Neus (Date of defense: 2021-04-16)

    Language is one of the main traits of humans. Language is used to transmit information about thoughts, knowledge, and feelings in a very flexible way. Since childhood, humans show an innate ability to acquire language and ...

    Neurophysiological correlates underlying social behavioural adjustment of conformity 

    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, expectations, or beliefs ...

    Once and for all: post-encoding neural mechanisms promoting rapid episodic memory formation in humans 

    Wu, Xiongbo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

    [eng] Deciphering the mechanisms of human declarative memory is one of the main goals of neuroscience. Theoretical models such as Standard Consolidation Theory (Alvarez and Squire, 1994) and the Multiple Trace Theory (Nadel ...

    Procesos de reflexión conjunta entre docentes. Usos y funciones del mundo virtual 

    Paredes Ulloa, Daniel Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)

    La presente investigación se centra en el estudio de la actividad reflexiva como un proceso conjunto mediado por la construcción y uso de representaciones sobre las situaciones que experimentan los docentes en la práctica. ...

    Promoción del uso y desarrollo de la lengua oral en el espacio educativo escolar y familiar de niños y niñas escolarizados en aulas chilenas 

    Castillo Mardones, Pamela (Date of defense: 2023-12-01)

    [spa] Esta investigación doctoral se fundamenta en premisas relacionadas con los enfoques socio- históricos, socio-interaccionales, y ecológicos del desarrollo, por lo cual asumimos que el contexto y los entornos naturales ...

    Reconstrucción de la identidad de aprendiz, integración académico-social y su relación con la permanencia en estudiantes de la Universidad de Concepción, Campus Los Ángeles, Chile 

    Abello Riquelme, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)

    Entre las perspectivas que explican la permanencia y el abandono de los estudios universitarios, destaca el enfoque de las interacciones sociales y académicas (Tinto, 1975, 1993). El punto de vista interaccional fue uno ...

    La reflexión del profesorado experto sobre situaciones de la práctica 

    Álvarez Jiménez, York Mary (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)

    [spa] El mundo actual vive muchos cambios que retan la educación. La formación docente y el desarrollo profesional continuo son ubicados como elementos centrales de los programas de mejora de los sistemas educativos. Al ...

    Searching for Worth: The Impact of Effort Throughout Reward Processing 

    López-Gamundí, Paula (Date of defense: 2023-12-11)

    [eng] What drives behavior? This fundamental inquiry has been the cornerstone of disciplines spanning from philosophy to biology. In neuroscience and economics, however, the prevailing viewpoint posits that reward plays a ...

    Sensorimotor decision-making with moving objects 

    Aguilar Lleyda, David (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)

    Moving is essential for us to survive, and in countless occasions we move in response to visual information. However, this process is characterized as uncertain, given the variability present both at the sensory and motor ...

    Spatial Structures in Analogical Reasoning 

    Hashemi, Amin (Date of defense: 2023-09-14)

    [eng] Analogical reasoning is fundamental to human thinking; it plays an important role in a variety of problem-solving contexts. Analogical problem-solving involves recognizing relational similarities between two situations ...

    Statistical Word-Learning in Catalan-Spanish Children with Specific Language Impairment 

    Ahufinger Sanclemente, Nadia (Date of defense: 2019-05-03)

    This dissertation was written to answer some questions about the different roles played by memory in school-age Catalan-Spanish children with specific language impairment (SLI). Currently, a small but growing body of work ...

    Studying brain development in infants by eye measurements: visual perception and visual attention 

    Esposito, Flavia Lorena (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)

    In the first years of life, there is a dramatic unfolding of cognitive abilities supported by the progressive control of gaze behaviour. The early development of oculomotor control is presumably closely tied to the maturation ...

    The self in the face of error: neural signatures of agency attribution 

    Gómez Andrés, Alba (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)

    [eng] How do we recognize that “I” am the one acting upon the world? This experience of knowing oneself as the author of our actions and their consequences, the sense of agency, is a basic feature of our subjective experience. ...

    Theta synchronization correlates of musical pleasure 

    Ara Romero, Alberto (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

    Arguably, one of the stimuli that move human the most is music. What physically consists in an array of sounds organized in time and frequency, is capable of evoking a rich palette of emotions, thoughts and behaviors in ...

    Vergencia en Procesos Cognitivos 

    Jiménez Pérez, Elizabeth Carolina (Date of defense: 2021-07-05)

    [spa] Hablar del cerebro, sus funciones y procesos nunca es tarea sencilla. Asimismo, hablar de un tema tan nuevo como es la vergencia relacionada con la atención y otros procesos cognitivos resulta complicado. A continuación, ...