Spinosa, Vittoria (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Perception can be considered as the bridge necessary to interact with the surroundings. Indeed, through our senses we are continuously exchanging information between the physical world around us and our ...
López Caballero, Francisco José (Date of defense: 2019-07-30)
The auditory system is a crucial element in our interaction with the environment, linked with several cognitive functions such as attention, memory and language. Further characterizing the neural ...
Recasens Fusté, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-11-19)
El nostre sistema auditiu codifica regularitats acústiques i les compara amb els inputs sensorials de forma continuada. Els sons novedosos o canvis acústics són detectats inconscientment de forma ràpida ...
San Miguel Insua, Iria (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Novel events in the context generate an involuntary orienting response which may have a different impact on the performance of ongoing tasks depending on the specific situation in which humans are ...
Finke, Mareike (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
The brain's ability to represent, maintain and update contextual (task-set) information enables us to alternate successfully between different tasks. Task-set reconfiguration is required when task demands ...
Althen, Heike Corinna (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)
One way of structuring the huge amount of sound input reaching the human ear, is extracting sound objects, which are formed by stimuli having a certain regularity in common. Mismatching stimuli are ...
Ribas-Prats, Teresa (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
In humans, auditory system is functional at the end of the second trimester of pregnancy and its correct development is crucial to receive auditory inputs from our acoustic environment, exposure which, ...
Gorina Careta, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
The auditory scene that we face during our day life is highly complex. The human auditory system is able to allow us to maintain a conversation with another person whilst ignoring the surrounding sounds ...
Costa Faidella, Jordi (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)
Acoustic regularity encoding has been associated with a decrease of the neural response to repeated stimulation underlying the representation of auditory objects in the brain. The present thesis encloses ...
García García, Manuel Antonio (Date of defense: 2009-12-21)
Our genetic background plays a role in the way we face environmental changes and adapt our behavior adequately to the requirements of everyday life. The present research focuses on the role of three ...