Nicolás Berenguer, Berta (Date of defense: 2020-10-28)
Our daily life event experiences fall into two general classifications: those that are remembered and those that are not. The act of remembering involves a perfect gearing of neurocognitive operations ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Silva, Marta Marques de Almeida e (Date of defense: 2023-10-13)
[eng] Since the moment of our birth, we are driven by an insatiable urge to understand and make sense of the world around us. To navigate the continuous flow of experiences, our minds instinctively break ...