• Model cortical responses for the detection of perceptual onsets and beat tracking in singing

  Coath, Martin; Denham, Susan L.; Smith, Leigh M.; Honing, Henkjan; Hazan, Amaury; Holonowicz, Piotr; Purwins, Hendrick (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

  We describe a biophysically motivated model of auditory salience based on a model of cortical responses and present results that show that the derived measure of salience can be used to identify the position of perceptual ...
• On the interrelation between listener characteristics and the perception of emotion in classical orchestra music

  Schedl, Markus; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Trent, Erika S.; Tkalčič, Marko; Eghbal-Zadeh, Hamid; Martorell Domínguez, Agustín (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)

  This study deals with the strong relationship between emotions and music, investigating three main research questions: (RQ1) Are there differences in human music perception (e.g., emotions, tempo, instrumentation, and ...
• Trends and perspectives in music cognition research and technology

  Purwins, Hendrick; Hardoon, David R. (Taylor & Francis, 2009)
• Characteristic sounds facilitate object search in real-life scenes

  Kvasova, Daria; Garcia-Vernet, Laia; Soto Faraco, Salvador (Frontiers, 2019)

  Real-world events do not only provide temporally and spatially correlated information across the senses, but also semantic correspondences about object identity. Prior research has shown that object sounds can enhance ...
• Awakening: Predicting external stimulation to force transitions between different brain states

  Deco, Gustavo; Cruzat, Josephine; Cabral, Joana; Tagliazucchi, Enzo; Laufs, Helmut; Logothetis, Nikos K.; Kringelbach, Morten L. (National Academy of Sciences, 2019)

  A fundamental problem in systems neuroscience is how to force a transition from one brain state to another by external driven stimulation in, for example, wakefulness, sleep, coma, or neuropsychiatric diseases. This requires ...
• A new computational approach to estimate whole-brain effective connectivity from functional and structural MRI, applied to language development

  Hahn, Gerald; Skeide, Michael A.; Mantini, Dante; Ganzetti, Marco; Destexhe, Alain; Friederici, Angela D.; Deco, Gustavo (Nature Research, 2019)

  Recently introduced effective connectivity methods allow for the in-vivo investigation of large-scale functional interactions between brain regions. However, dynamic causal modeling, the most widely used technique to date, ...
• Altered ability to access a clinically relevant control network in patients remitted from major depressive disorder

  Figueroa, Caroline A.; Cabral, Joana; Mocking, Roeal J.T.; Rapuano, Kristina M.; van Hartevelt, Tim J.; Deco, Gustavo; Expert, Paul; Schene, Aart H.; Kringelback, Morten L.; Ruhé, Henricus G. (Wiley, 2019)

  Neurobiological models to explain vulnerability of major depressive disorder (MDD) are scarce and previous functional magnetic resonance imaging studies mostly examined “static” functional connectivity (FC). Knowing that ...
• Culturas juveniles como perspectiva para analizar juventudes (1993-2018)

  Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Sociología. Núcleo de Investigación y Acción en Juventudes, 2018)

  Este artículo de revisión traza un panorama de los estudios sobre las culturas juveniles latinoamericanas en los últimos veinticinco años, en un viaje que va del siglo XX al XXI (de la Generación X a la Generación @), con ...
• El Sur político del Norte global: repensando la participación política juvenil en España

  Ballesté Isern, Eduard; Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Universidad Central.Instituto de Estudios Sociales Contemporáneos, 2019)

  Este trabajo indaga en las distintas formas de participación juvenil que emergieron a través de los movimientos del 2011, específicamente a través del caso del 15M español. Basa la investigación en un trabajo etnográfico ...
• Body silhouettes as a tool to reflect obesity in the past

  Lønnebotn, Marianne; García Aymerich, Judith; Gómez Real, Francisco (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  Life course data on obesity may enrich the quality of epidemiologic studies analysing health consequences of obesity. However, achieving such data may require substantial resources. We investigated the use of body silhouettes ...
• Long-term epigenetic changes in offspring mice exposed to alcohol during gestation and lactation

  Cantacorps, Lídia; Alfonso-Loeches, Silvia; Guerri, Consuelo; Valverde Granados, Olga (SAGE Publications, 2019)

  Background: Alcohol exposure impairs brain development and leads to a range of behavioural and cognitive dysfunctions, termed as foetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Although different mechanisms have been proposed to ...
• Trends in smoking initiation in Europe over 40 years: A retrospective cohort study

  Marcon, Alessandro; Pesce, Giancarlo; Calciano, Lucia; Bellisario, Valeria; Dharmage, Shyamali C.; García Aymerich, Judith; Gislasson, Thorarinn; Heinrich, Joachim; Holm, Mathias; Janson, Christer; Jarvis, Deborah; Leynaert, Bénédicte; Matheson, Melanie C.; Pirina, Pietro; Svanes, Cecilie; Villani, Simona; Zuberbier, Torsten; Minelli, Cosetta; Accordini, Simone; Ageing Lungs In European Cohorts study (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  BACKGROUND: Tobacco consumption is the largest avoidable health risk. Understanding changes of smoking over time and across populations is crucial to implementing health policies. We evaluated trends in smoking initiation ...
• Variants in the fetal genome near pro-inflammatory cytokine genes on 2q13 associate with gestational duration

  Liu, Xueping; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Vrijheid, Martine; Feenstra, Bjarke (Nature Research, 2019)

  The duration of pregnancy is influenced by fetal and maternal genetic and non-genetic factors. Here we report a fetal genome-wide association meta-analysis of gestational duration, and early preterm, preterm, and postterm ...
• A critical time window for recovery extends beyond one-year post-stroke

  Rubio Ballester, Belén; Maier Martina; Maier, Martina; Duff, Amin; Cameirão, Mónica; Bermúdez, Sergi; Duarte Oller, Esther; Cuxart, Ampar; Rodriguez, Susana; San Segundo Mozo, Rosa María; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (American Physiological Society, 2019)

  The impact of rehabilitation on post-stroke motor recovery and its dependency on the patient's chronicity remain unclear. The field has widely accepted the notion of a proportional recovery rule with a "critical window for ...
• GUILDify v2.0: a tool to identify molecular networks underlying human diseases, their comorbidities and their druggable targets

  Aguirre Plans, Joaquim; Piñero González, Janet, 1977-; Sanz, Ferran; Furlong, Laura I., 1971-; Fernández Fuentes, Narcís; Oliva Miguel, Baldomero; Guney, Emre (Elsevier, 2019)

  The genetic basis of complex diseases involves alterations on multiple genes. Unraveling the interplay between these genetic factors is key to the discovery of new biomarkers and treatments. In 2014, we introduced GUILDify, ...
• Exogenous female sex steroids may reduce lung ageing after menopause: A 20-year follow-up study of a general population sample (ECRHS)

  Triebner, Kai; García Aymerich, Judith; Gómez Real, Francisco (Elsevier, 2019)

  Objectives: Menopause involves hypoestrogenism, which is associated with numerous detrimental effects, including on respiratory health. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is often used to improve symptoms of menopause. The ...
• Impact of a riverside accessibility intervention on use, physical activity, and wellbeing: A mixed methods pre-post evaluation

  Vert, Cristina; Carrasco Turigas, Glòria; Zijlema, Wilma; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Cano-Riu, Lia; Elliott, Lewis R.; Litt, Jill; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Gascon Merlos, Mireia, 1984- (Elsevier, 2019)

  Introduction: Access to natural outdoor environments can promote physical activity, social cohesion, and improved psychological well-being. In 2016, an urban riverside regeneration project to facilitate access to the ...
• Evaluation of different recruitment methods: longitudinal, web-based, pan-european physical activity through sustainable transport approaches (PASTA) Project

  Gaupp-Berghausen, Mailin; Raser, Elisabeth; Anaya Boig, Esther; Avila Palencia, Ione; De Nazelle, Audrey; Dons, Evi; Franzen, Helen; Gerike, Regine; Götschi, Thomas; Iacorossi, Francesco; Hössinger, Reinhard; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979-; Sánchez, Julian; Smeds, Emilia; Deforth, Manja; Standaert, Arnout; Stigell, Erik; Cole-Hunter, Tom; Int Panis, Luc (JMIR Publications, 2019)

  Background: Sufficient sample size and minimal sample bias are core requirements for empirical data analyses. Combining opportunistic recruitment with a Web-based survey and data-collection platform yields new benefits ...
• Association of gestational weight gain with adverse maternal and infant outcomes

  LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity and Childhood Outcomes Study Group (American Medical Association, 2019)

  Importance: Both low and high gestational weight gain have been associated with adverse maternal and infant outcomes, but optimal gestational weight gain remains uncertain and not well defined for all prepregnancy weight ...
• Independent multiple factor association analysis for multiblock data in imaging genetics

  Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Ikram, Mohammad Arfan; Roshchupkin, Gennady V.; Cáceres, Alejandro; Alemany, Silvia; Vernooij, Meike W.; Niessen, Wiro J.; Duijn, Cornelia M. van; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Adams, Hieab H.; González Ruiz, Juan Ramón (Springer, 2019)

  Multivariate methods have the potential to better capture complex relationships that may exist between different biological levels. Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) is one of the most popular methods to obtain factor scores ...

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