Vigué-Guix, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct ...
Ikumi Montserrat, Nara (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)
Perception in our everyday life takes place in multisensory environments, and hence involves the processing of a multitude of signals captured by various sensory modalities. Given the different nature ...
Biau, Emmanuel (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Speakers naturally accompany their speech with hand gestures and extend the auditory prosody to visual modality through rapid beat gestures that help them to structure their narrative and emphasize ...
Kvasova, Daria (Date of defense: 2020-02-13)
In our everyday life we must effectively orient attention to relevant objects and events in multisensory environments. The impact of cross-modal links for attention orienting to spatial and temporal ...
Nakagawa, Tristan T. (Date of defense: 2015-03-11)
Ongoing spontaneous brain activity patterns raise ever-growing interest in the neuroscience community. Complex spatiotemporal patterns that emerge from a structural core and interactions of functional ...
Morís Fernández, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
Events in our environment do rarely excite only one sensory pathway, but usually involve several modalities offering complimentary information. These different informations are usually integrated into ...