Llobera, Joan (Date of defense: 2012-12-21)
How can we use immersive and interactive technologies to portray stories? How can we take advantage of the fact that within immersive virtual environments people tend to respond realistically to virtual ...
Butjosa Molines, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Nowadays, advances in affective and social neuroscience have shown how the exposure to environmental factors has an impact on the structure and functioning of the brain being thus, active agents in the ...
Banakou, Domna (Date of defense: 2017-04-26)
Over the past two decades extensive research in experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and virtual reality has provided evidence for the malleability of our brain's body representation. It has ...
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 ...
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 ...
Georghiades, Alicia (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) continue to be the most common disorders treated in gastroenterological practice. They are associated with higher levels of psychological distress, impaired ...
Birulés Muntané, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
In most natural situations, adults look at the eyes of faces in seek of social information (Yarbus, 1967). However, when the auditory information becomes unclear (e.g. speech-in- noise) they switch their ...
Greco, Ana Martina (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
Violence affects many children and youth, causing devastating effects. Schools are in an ideal position to prevent, detect and report potential victimization cases. Yet, studies have found several ...
Moggia Narváez, Danilo Orlando (Date of defense: 2019-03-05)
The study explored the presence of different patterns of change in a sample of patients who received cognitive therapy for depression in group and individual sequential formats. Our hypothesis was that ...
Soler Corbella, Laia (Date of defense: 2014-09-16)
Interpersonal victimization is widely acknowledged to be a significant stressor and psychologically damaging factor for both children and adolescents. Despite the large number of studies that report a ...