• An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex

  Ressel, Volker; Pallier, Christophe; Ventura-Campos, Noelia; Díaz, Begoña; Roessler, Abeba; Ávila, César; Sebastián Gallés, Núria (Society for Neuroscience, 2012)

  Two studies (Golestani et al., 2007; Wong et al., 2008) have reported a positive correlation between the ability to perceive foreign speech sounds and the volume of Heschl's gyrus (HG), the structure that houses the auditory ...
• What do your eyes reveal about your foreign language? Reading emotional sentences in a native and foreign language

  Iacozza, Sara; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017)

  Foreign languages are often learned in emotionally neutral academic environments which differ greatly from the familiar context where native languages are acquired. This difference in learning contexts has been argued to ...
• Using a simple neural network to delineate some principles of distributed economic choice

  Balasubramani, Pragathi P.; Moreno Bote, Rubén; Hayden, Benjamin Y. (Frontiers, 2018)

  The brain uses a mixture of distributed and modular organization to perform computations and generate appropriate actions. While the principles under which the brain might perform computations using modular systems have ...
• Causal inference and explaining away in a spiking network

  Moreno Bote, Rubén; Drugowitsch, Jan (Nature Research, 2015)

  While the brain uses spiking neurons for communication, theoretical research on brain computations has mostly focused on non-spiking networks. The nature of spike-based algorithms that achieve complex computations, such ...
• Consonance processing in the absence of relevant experience: evidence from nonhuman animals

  Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-; Crespo Bojorque, Paola, 1985- (The Comparative Cognition Society, 2017)

  Consonance is a major feature in harmonic music that has been related to how pleasant a sound is perceived. Consonant chords are defined by simple frequency ratios between their composing tones, whereas dissonant chords ...
• Cognitive performance in healthy older adults relates to spontaneous switching between states of functional connectivity during rest

  Cabral, Joana R. B.; Vidaurre, Diego; Marques, Paulo; Magalhães, Ricardo; Moreira, Pedro Silva; Soares, José Miguel; Deco, Gustavo; Sousa, Nuno; Kringelbach, Morten L. (Nature Research, 2017)

  Growing evidence has shown that brain activity at rest slowly wanders through a repertoire of different states, where whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) temporarily settles into distinct FC patterns. Nevertheless, ...
• La interfaz estructura informativa-prosodia: el rol de la tematicidad jerárquica basado en un modelo empírico

  Domínguez Bajo, Mónica (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2019)

  Tesis doctoral en tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones realizada por Mónica Domínguez Bajo en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra bajo la dirección del Dr. Leo Wanner y la Dra. Mireia Farrús Cabecerán. El acto de ...
• Spatial gamut mapping among non-inclusive gamuts

  Bertalmío, Marcelo; Vazquez-Corral, Javier (Elsevier, 2018)

  Gamut mapping transforms the color gamut of an image to that of a target device. Two cases are usually considered: gamut reduction (target gamut smaller than source gamut), and gamut extension (target gamut larger than ...
• Extracting orthogonal subject- and condition-specific signatures from fMRI data using whole-brain effective connectivity

  Pallarés, Vicente; Insabato, Andrea; Sanjuán, Ana; Kühn, Simone; Mantini, Dante; Deco, Gustavo; Gilson, Matthieu (Elsevier, 2018)

  The study of brain communication based on fMRI data is often limited because such measurements are a mixture of session-to-session variability with subject- and condition-related information. Disentangling these contributions ...
• Whole-brain neuronal activity displays crackling noise dynamics

  Ponce-Alvarez, Adrián; Jouary, Adrien; Privat, Martin; Deco, Gustavo; Sumbre, Germán (Elsevier, 2018)

  Previous studies suggest that the brain operates at a critical point in which phases of order and disorder coexist, producing emergent patterned dynamics at all scales and optimizing several brain functions. Here, we ...
• Learning to combine complementary segmentation methods for fetal and 6-month infant brain MRI segmentation

  Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Sanromà, Gerard; Benkarim, Oualid M.; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Lekadir, Karim; Hahner, Nadine; Eixarch, Elisenda; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973- (Elsevier, 2018)

  Segmentation of brain structures during the pre-natal and early post-natal periods is the first step for subsequent analysis of brain development. Segmentation techniques can be roughly divided into two families. The ...
• Improved multiple birdsong tracking with distribution derivative method and Markov renewal process clustering

  Stowell, Dan; Muševič, Sašo; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Plumbley, Mark D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)

  Segregating an audio mixture containing multiple simultaneous bird sounds is a challenging task. However, birdsong often contains rapid pitch modulations, and these modulations carry information which may be of use in ...
• SciLens: evaluating the quality of scientific news articles using social media and scientific literature indicators

  Smeros, Panayiotis; Castillo, Carlos; Aberer, Karl (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2019)

  This paper describes, develops, and validates SciLens, a method to evaluate the quality of scientific news articles. The starting point for our work are structured methodologies that define a series of quality aspects for ...
• The Role of functional associations in building destination brand personality: when official websites do the talking

  Vinyals-Mirabent, Sara; Kavaratzis, Mihalis; Fernández Cavia, Josep, 1963- (Elsevier, 2019)

  Destinations ‘talk’ about themselves via online media to build strong brand personalities. However, previous research points to the influence of other associations linked to the destination in determining the credibility ...
• European urban destinations’ attractors at the frontier between competitiveness and a unique destination image: a benchmark study of communication practices

  Vinyals-Mirabent, Sara (Elsevier, 2019)

  The attractors of a destination are key elements of its appeal and play a vital role in the destination's success. Attractors such as architecture or culture have been identified as essential features of the destination's ...
• NACTA: construyendo el futuro de la tradición del jingju

  Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier (2016)

  En sus poco más de doscientos años de historia, el jingju, u ópera de Pekín, ha conseguido el título de tesoro nacional (guocui) y como tal ha asumido la turbulenta historia reciente del país. En la puja por situarse como ...
• Automatic characterization of ornamentation from bassoon recordings for expressive synthesis

  Puiggròs, Montserrat; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Serra, Xavier; Bresin, Roberto (Bononia University Press, 2006)

  Expressive performance characterization is traditionally based on the analysis of the main differences between performances, players, playing styles and emotional intentions. This work addresses the characterization of ...
• Melodic transformation processes in the arrangements of Jingju Banshi

  Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier (2016)

  Music in jingju (also known as Peking or Beijing opera) is predefined by tradition. Before the appearance of jingju music composers, actors used to “arrange melodies” (bianqu) for new lyrics according to melodic systems ...
• Automatic chord-scale recognition using harmonic pitch class profiles

  Demirel, Emir; Bozkurt, Baris; Serra, Xavier (Sound & Music Computing Conference, 2019)

  This study focuses on the application of different computational methods to carry out a ”modal harmonic analysis” for Jazz improvisation performances by modeling the concept of chord-scales. The Chord-Scale Theory is a ...
• Breaking the state of the heart: meshless model for cardiac mechanics

  Lluch Alvarez, Èric; De Craene, Mathieu; Bijnens, Bart; Sermesant, Maxime; Noailly, Jérôme; Camara, Oscar; Morales, Hernán G. (Springer, 2019)

  Cardiac modeling has recently emerged as a promising tool to study pathophysiology mechanisms and to predict treatment outcomes for personalized clinical decision support. Nevertheless, achieving convergence under large ...

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