Vaquero Zamora, Lucía (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
It has been shown that music and language training can elicit plastic changes on brain structure and function bringing along behavioural benefits. For instance, musicians have been reported to have ...
Christou, Spyros (Date of defense: 2018-03-04)
[eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity ...
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, ...
de Salvador de Arana, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This study aims at improving English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing instruction at secondary level by implementing a blended instructional design that may foster self-regulation through public ...
Fernández Prieto, Irene (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
Our perceptual system tends to associate higher-pitched sounds with upper spatial positions and smaller visual sizes, and lower pitched-sounds with lower positions and bigger visual sizes. This processes, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Parra Tíjaro, Jeison (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
[eng] Our everyday actions are sequential and chained towards accomplishing goals. As an adaptive strategy, our tasks are divided and organised in stages leading up to an ultimate objective, which is ...
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 ...