Sengupta, Pallabi (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
Communication amongst various regions of our brain makes it possible for us to perform a wide array of cognitive tasks. To capture these communications at a local level has remained challenging in the ...
Vidal, Alice (Date of defense: 2024-02-23)
Prendre decisions es un repte, i a la par un aspecte inevitable a les nostres vides. D’entre totes les opcions viables, hom ha de sotmetre a escrutini i avaluació les diverses alternatives en tant ...
Pérez Crespo, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-03-22)
Environmental noise pollution has become a major public health concern due to its increase during the last decades as a result of urbanization processes. Environmental noise can be produced by different ...
Bergadà Martínez, Araceli (Date of defense: 2024-03-08)
Cognition is a physiological brain function that refers to the process of acquiring and managing knowledge and understanding. It embraces multiple domains, including memory. Intellectual disability ...
Poliński, Patrik (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Microexons are an unusual form of alternative splicing with high evolutionary conservation, however, their functions are still far from being understood. In this thesis, we focused on a neuronal-specific ...
Özer, Ege Ekin (Date of defense: 2024-03-21)
In this thesis, we explored neural entrainment as a potential mechanism to underline the behavioral evidence that certain phonological properties of listeners’ native language affects speech segmentation. ...
Shekari, Mahnaz (Date of defense: 2024-04-03)
This thesis explores technical factors influencing brain PET quantification, developing brain PET harmonization framework, assessing Centiloid robustness as a clinical biomarker, and evaluating the ...
Ibáñez Soria, David (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
In the last decade recurrent neural networks have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Their cyclic connections provide them with memory and thus with the capability of modeling processes ...
Manubens-Gil, Linus (Date of defense: 2018-01-18)
During the last century the nervous system has been mainly studied from a reductionistic approach, based on the hypothesis that understanding in depth single neurons or limited neuronal populations would ...
Turuban, Maxime (Date of defense: 2024-05-15)
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) exposure, ubiquitous in our environment due to the rise in mobile phones and wireless technology, has grown significantly in the last 30 years. This exposure ...