• Learned effects of structural components of newscasts on viewers’ information processing: The case of Stings

  Barreda Ángeles, Miguel; Pereda-Baños, Alexandre; Ferràndiz Bofill, Xavier; Costa, Albert, 1970- (De Gruyter, 2017)

  This article proposes that syntactic features of newscasts can act as learned motivational stimuli determining both viewers’ attention and memory for information. An experiment was conducted in which we manipulated the ...
• Vision models for wide color gamut imaging in cinema

  Zamir, Syed Waqas; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  Gamut mapping is the problem of transforming the colors of image or video content so as to fully exploit the color palette ofthe display device where the content will be shown, while preserving the artistic intent of the ...
• A Fluctuation-driven mechanism for slow decision processes in reverberant networks

  Martí, Daniel; Deco, Gustavo; Mattia, Maurizio; Gigante, Guido; Del Giudice, Paolo (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008)

  The spike activity of cells in some cortical areas has been found to be correlated with reaction times and behavioral responses during two-choice decision tasks. These experimental findings have motivated the study of ...
• Conceptualising a visual representation model for MOOC-based blended learning designs

  Albó, Laia; Hernández Leo, Davinia (2020)

  This article reports on a study about how massive open online course (MOOC)-based blended learning designs can be visually represented to facilitate their comprehension and sharing. We carried out an iterative co-creation ...
• Thermal impact of balloon occlusion of the coronary sinus during mitral isthmus radiofrequency ablation: an in-silico study

  González-Suárez, Ana; d'Avila, Andre; Pérez, Juan J.; Reddy, Vivek Y.; Camara, Oscar; Berjano, Enrique J. (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Purpose: Although experimental data have suggested that temporary occlusion of the coronary sinus (CS) can facilitate the creation of transmural lesions across the atrial wall (AW) during mitral isthmus radiofrequency ...
• Can faces prime a language?

  Woumans, Evy; Martin, Clara D.; Vanden Bulcke, Charlotte; Van Assche, Eva; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Duyck, Wouter (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  Bilinguals have two languages that are activated in parallel. During speech production, one of these languages must be selected on the basis of some cue. The present study investigated whether the face of an interlocutor ...
• Auricular transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation improves memory persistence in naïve mice and in an intellectual disability mouse model

  Vázquez-Oliver, Anna; Brambilla Pisoni, Cecilia; Domingo-Gainza, Mikel; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961-; Ivorra Cano, Antoni, 1974-; Ozaita Mintegui, Andrés, 1969- (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) using non-invasive approaches have attracted great attention due to their anti-epileptic, anti-depressive and pro-cognitive effects. It has been proposed that auricular transcutaneous ...
• Effective diversity of OTFS modulation

  Raviteja, P.; Hong, Yi; Viterbo, Emanuele; Biglieri, Ezio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, which encodes information symbols in the delay–Doppler domain, offers a promising solution to the problem of high Doppler sensitivity of orthogonal frequency division ...
• Automatic assessment of tone quality in violin music performance

  Giraldo, Sergio; Waddell, George; Nou Plana, Ignasi; Ortega, Ariadna; Mayor, Oscar; Perez, Alfonso; Williamon, Aaron; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (Frontiers, 2019)

  The automatic assessment of music performance has become an area of increasing interest due to the growing number of technology-enhanced music learning systems. In most of these systems, the assessment of musical performance ...
• Cross-lingual semantic annotation of biomedical literature: experiments in Spanish and English

  Perez, Naiara; Accuosto, Pablo; Bravo, Àlex; Cuadros Oller, Montse; Martínez-Garcia, Eva; Saggion, Horacio; Rigau Claramunt, German (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Motivation Biomedical literature is one of the most relevant sources of information for knowledge mining in the field of Bioinformatics. In spite of English being the most widely addressed language in the field; in ...
• Analysis of nonstandardized stress echocardiography sequences using multiview dimensionality reduction

  Nogueira, Mariana; De Craene, Mathieu; Sanchez Martinez, Sergio; Chowdhury, Devyani; Bijnens, Bart; Piella Fenoy, Gemma (Elsevier, 2019)

  Alternative stress echocardiography protocols such as handgrip exercise are potentially more favorable towards large-scale screening scenarios than those currently adopted in clinical practice. However, these are still ...
• A rule-based method to model myocardial fiber orientation in cardiac biventricular geometries with outflow tracts

  Doste, Rubén; Soto-Iglesias, David; Bernardino Perez, Gabriel; Alcaine, Alejandro; Sebastián Aguilar, Rafael, 1978-; Giffard-Roisin, Sophie; Sermesant, Maxime; Berruezo Sánchez, Antonio; Sánchez-Quintana, Damián; Camara, Oscar (Wiley, 2019)

  Rule-based methods are often used for assigning fiber orientation to cardiac anatomical models. However, existing methods have been developed using data mostly from the left ventricle. As a consequence, fiber information ...
• Part-of-speech and prosody-based approaches for robot speech and gesture synchronization

  Pérez Mayos, Laura; Farrús, Mireia; Adell, J. (Springer, 2019)

  Humanoid robots are already among us and they are beginning to assume more social and personal roles, like guiding and assisting people. Thus, they should interact in a human-friendly manner, using not only verbal cues ...
• Phrase-Level modeling of expression in violin performances

  Ortega, Fabio J. M.; Giraldo, Sergio; Pérez Carrillo, Alfonso Antonio, 1977-; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (Frontiers, 2019)

  Background: Expression is a key skill in music performance, and one that is difficult to address in music lessons. Computational models that learn from expert performances can help providing suggestions and feedback to ...
• Música coreana en Barcelona: chamanismo, pansori y janggu

  Caro Repetto, Rafael (Sociedad de Etnomusicología (SIBE), 2018)
• Revealing heterogeneity of brain imaging phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease based on unsupervised clustering of blood marker profiles

  Martí Juan, Gerard; Sanromà, Gerard; Piella Fenoy, Gemma (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects millions of people and is a major rising problem in health care worldwide. Recent research suggests that AD could have different subtypes, presenting differences in how the disease develops. ...
• A Full-body interactive videogame used as a tool to foster social initiation conducts in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Parés, Narcís, 1966-; Mairena, Maria Angeles; Mora Guiard, Joan; Malinverni, Laura; Padillo, Vanesa; Valero, Lilia; Hervás, Amaia; Parés, Narcís, 1966- (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background Game-based interventions that involve the use of technology have shown to facilitate motivation and learning processes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The purpose of this observational study ...
• Recognizing musical entities in user-generated content

  Porcaro, Lorenzo; Saggion, Horacio (Computing Research Center (CIC-IPN), 2019)

  Recognizing Musical Entities is important for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) since it can improve the performance of several tasks such as music recommendation, genre classification or artist similarity. However, ...
• Analysis of spherical isotropic noise fields with an A-Format tetrahedral microphone

  Stefanakis, Nikolaos (Acoustical Society of America, 2019)

  Several applications in spatial audio signal processing benefit from the knowledge of the diffuseness of the sound field. In this paper, several experiments are performed to determine the response of a tetrahedral microphone ...
• Mindful engineers in sustainable engineering

  Basart i Muñoz, Josep M.; Farrús, Mireia; Serra, Montse (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  According to the Encyclopadia Britannica, the establishment of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (Royal Society), the "oldest national scientific society in the world," was on November 28, 1660. ...

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