Cámara Mancha, Estela (Date of defense: 2008-11-13)
Current views in cognitive neuroscience assume that many high level cognitive functions, such as learning, language, or memory are anatomically widely distributed across the whole brain, interacting and ...
Leuteritz, Jan-Paul Joachim (Date of defense: 2019-03-04)
The main objective of this research project was to investigate the mechanisms linking two important psychosocial processes, transformational leadership and group development on the one hand, to team ...
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 ...
Ciria Suárez, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases in women. Prevention and treatments have lowered mortality; nevertheless, the impact of diagnosis and treatment continue to affect ...
Lerer Gornatti, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)
[eng] Although visual perception has been extensively studied for centuries, the underlying neural mechanisms remain puzzling. The present study aims to develop a computational model based on the low-level ...
Suárez Pellicioni, Macarena (Date of defense: 2014-12-04)
This PhD thesis comprises five studies aiming to investigate differences between low math- anxious (LMA) and high math-anxious (HMA) individuals in numeric processing by means of behavioral and event-related ...
Santos Vives, Alicia (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)
Endogenous Cushing’s syndrome is a rare disease due to an excess of circulating cortisol. Chronic cortisol excess can lead to different comorbidities which may persist after biochemical cure, including ...
Ballester Plané, Júlia (Date of defense: 2018-10-18)
The term cerebral palsy (CP) encompasses a group of disorders of movement and/or posture and of motor function due to a non-progressive injury, interference or abnormality in an immature or developing ...
Pizarro Lozano, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2016-07-19)
Changing the passage of time is a concept that has captured the imagination of many philosophers and writers throughout history, but we have no evidence of anyone being capable of altering it at a ...
Moreno Montero, Fernando (Date of defense: 2023-05-24)
[eng] The ultimate aim of the present thesis is to further understand why people rebel (and why don´t). First of all, we carried out a profound review of the literature on system attitudes, mainly Social ...