• PAD and SAD: Two awareness-weighted rhythmic similarity distances

  Gómez Marín, Daniel; Jordà Puig, Sergi; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)

  Measuring rhythm similarity is relevant for the analysis and generation of music. Existing similarity metrics tend to consider our perception of rhythms as being in time without discriminating the importance of some ...
• Improving score-informed source separation for classical music through note refinement

  Miron, Marius; Carabias Orti, Julio J.; Janer Mestres, Jordi (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)

  Signal decomposition methods such as Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) demonstrated to be a suitable approach for music signal processing applications, including sound source separation. To better control this ...
• A Computational analysis of dynamic, multi-organ inflammatory crosstalk induced by endotoxin in mice

  Zamora, Ruben; Korff, Sebastian; Mi, Qi; Barclay, Derek A.; Schimunek, Lukas; Zucca, Riccardo; Arsiwalla, Xerxes D.; Simmons, Richard L.; Verschure, Paul F. M. J.; Billiar, Timothy R.; Vodovotz, Yoram (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces an acute inflammatory response across multiple organs, primarily via Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). We sought to define novel aspects of the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of ...
• Self beyond the body: Action-driven and task-relevant purely distal cues modulate performance and body ownership

  Grechuta, Klaudia; Ulysse, Laura; Rubio Ballester, Belén; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (Frontiers, 2019)

  Our understanding of body ownership largely relies on the so-called Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI). In this paradigm, synchronous stroking of the real and the rubber hands leads to an illusion of ownership of the rubber hand ...
• Absence of parallel fibre to purkinje cell LTD during eyeblink conditioning

  Johansson, Fredrik; Jirenhed, Dan Anders; Rasmussen, Anders; Zucca, Riccardo; Hesslow, Germund (Nature Research, 2018)

  Long-term depression (LTD) of parallel fibre/Purkinje cell synapses has been the favoured explanation for cerebellar motor learning such as classical eyeblink conditioning. Previous evidence against this interpretation has ...
• Coordinated representational reinstatement in the human hippocampus and lateral temporal cortex during episodic memory retrieval

  Pacheco Estefan, D.; Sánchez Fibla, Martí; Duff, Armin Dhir; Principe, Alessandro; Rocamora, Rodrigo; Zhang, Hui; Axmacher, Nikolai; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (Nature Research, 2019)

  Theoretical models of episodic memory have proposed that retrieval depends on interactions between the hippocampus and neocortex, where hippocampal reinstatement of item-context associations drives neocortical reinstatement ...
• DysWebxia: Textos más accesibles para personas con dislexia.

  Rello, Luz; Baeza Yates, Ricardo; Saggion, Horacio (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2013)

  Alrededor del 10% de la población mundial tiene dislexia, un trastorno de aprendizaje que afecta a las habilidades de lectoescritura. Aunque la dislexia tiene un origen neurológico, mediante ciertas modificaciones en los ...
• Design of word exercises for children with dyslexia

  Rello, Luz (Elsevier, 2014)

  This paper presents a method to design reinforcement word exercises to support children with dyslexia. The method takes into account linguistic patterns found in the errors written by people with dyslexia and their specific ...
• Identification and extraction of memes represented as semantic networks from free text online forums

  Beck-Fernández, Héctor; Nettleton, David F. (Universidad de Tarapacá, 2015)

  Memes have recently come into vogue in the context of 'viral' transmission of basic information units in online social networks. However, from their original general definition in a sociological context, there is still ...
• Analyzing the influence of pitch quantization and note segmentation on singing voice alignment in the context of audio-based Query-by-Humming

  Valero-Mas, Jose J.; Salamon, Justin; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Maynooth University, 2015)

  Query-by-Humming (QBH) systems base their operation on aligning the melody sung/hummed by a user with a set of candidate melodies retrieved from polyphonic songs. While MIDI-based QBH builds on the premise of ...
• Target-based rhythmic pattern generation and variation with genetic algorithms

  Nuanáin, Cárthach Ó; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Jordà Puig, Sergi (Maynooth University, 2015)

  Composing drum patterns and musically developing them through repetition and variation is a typical task in electronic music production. We propose a system that, given an input pattern, automatically creates related ...
• A Cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures

  Costumero, Víctor; Marin-Marin, Lidon; Calabria, Marco; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Baquero, Miguel; Hernandez, Mireia; Ruiz de Miras, Juan; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Parcet, Maria-Antònia; Ávila, César (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background Evidence from previous studies suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve because bilinguals manifest the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to 5 years later than monolinguals. Other ...
• Image-based 3D characterization of abdominal aortic aneurysm deformation after endovascular aneurysm repair

  López-Linares, Karen; García, Inmaculada; García, Ainhoa; Cortes, Camilo; Macía, Iván; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973- (Frontiers, 2019)

  An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a focal dilation of the abdominal aorta, that if not treated, tends to grow and may rupture. The most common treatment for AAAs is the endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), which requires ...
• The effects of population tuning and trial-by-trial variability on information encoding and behavior

  Nogueira, Ramon; Peltier, Nicole E.; Anzai, Akiyuki; DeAngelis, Gregory C.; Martínez-Trujillo, Julio; Moreno-Bote, Rubén (Society for Neuroscience, 2020)

  Identifying the features of population responses that are relevant to the amount of information encoded by neuronal populations is a crucial step toward understanding population coding. Statistical features, such as tuning ...
• Issues with common assumptions about the camera pipeline and their impact in hdr imaging from multiple exposures

  Gil Rodríguez, Raquel; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2019)

  Multiple-exposure approaches for high dynamic range (HDR) image generation share a set of building assumptions: that color channels are independent and that the camera response function (CRF) remains constant while changing ...
• On the nature of the word-reduction phenomenon: the contribution of bilingualism

  Rodriguez-Cuadrado, Sara; Baus, Cristina; Costa, Albert, 1970- (MDPI, 2019)

  Word reduction refers to how predictable words are shortened in features such as duration, intensity, or pitch. However, its origin is still unclear: Are words reduced because it is the second time that conceptual ...
• Robust algorithms with polynomial loss for near-unanimity CSPs

  Dalmau, Víctor; Kozik, Marcin; Krokhin, Andrei; Makarychev, Konstantin; Makarychev, Yury; Opršal, Jakub (SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2019)

  An instance of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is given by a family of constraints on overlapping sets of variables, and the goal is to assign values from a fixed domain to the variables so that all constraints ...
• Primate amygdala neurons simulate decision drocesses of social partners

  Grabenhorst, Fabian; Báez-Mendoza, Raymundo; Genest, Wilfried; Deco, Gustavo; Schultz, Wolfram (Elsevier, 2019)

  By observing their social partners, primates learn about reward values of objects. Here, we show that monkeys’ amygdala neurons derive object values from observation and use these values to simulate a partner monkey’s ...
• Low entropy map of brain oscillatory activity identifies spatially localized events

  Vila-Vidal, Manel; Pérez-Enríquez, Carmen; Principe, Alessandro; Rocamora, Rodrigo; Deco, Gustavo; Tauste Campo, Adrià (Elsevier, 2020)

  The spatial mapping of localized events in brain activity critically depends on the correct identification of the pattern signatures associated with those events. For instance, in the context of epilepsy research, a number ...
• Human confidence judgments reflect reliability-based hierarchical integration of contextual information

  Schustek, Philipp; Hyafil, Alexandre; Moreno-Bote, Rubén (Nature Research, 2019)

  Our immediate observations must be supplemented with contextual information to resolve ambiguities. However, the context is often ambiguous too, and thus it should be inferred itself to guide behavior. Here, we introduce ...

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