Increasingly Coordinated: Propensity for Cooperation and Aversion to Competition in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Adolescence is an age of social re-orientation during which developing socio-cognitive skills allow people to better coordinate their behavior to their social environment, such as to different interaction partners. Little is known, however, about the development of coordination abilities in different strategic environments during this age. To fill this gap, we used game theoretic paradigms to investigate if, during adolescence, people improve in their ability to distinguish between cooperati...

"An Ill-Fitted Sweater that You Just Can't Seem to Get Off" Beyond Labels: The Lived Experience of Gender Dysphoria and Body Perception

Gender dysphoria (GD) is characterized by the incongruity between one’s assigned and perceived gender identities, reflecting the complex interaction between self and the societal norms. The embodiment of GD adds a layer of complexity, as individuals strive to maintain a stable body image. This study investigates the bodily experience of GD sufferers through a comprehensive review of behavioral and neuroimaging studies and a qualitative analysis of firsthand resources from YouTube. By focusing...

Structural connectivity impacts on brain effective connectivity in Developmental Dyslexia as shown by dynamic causal model of a visuo-attentive task

The impact of childhood trauma on violent offender: from attachment and neurocognitive development to legal aspects

In this dissertation, I explore how early trauma experienced in childhood can affect future violence and its social, attachment and overall neurocognitive development. Childhood is portrayed as an enjoyable time for growth but this has not been the case for some people. This dissertation explores what impact does childhood trauma have on different brain processes like self-control, emotional regulation, decision-making and which regions are affected. Information is gathered and synthesized fr...

INTRODUCTION TO APHASIABANK FOR BEGINNERS, BY A BEGINNER

Objective: This master's thesis, “Introduction to AphasiaBank for Beginners, by a Beginner,” simplifies entry into aphasia research by providing a structured introduction to AphasiaBank and its coding systems. The goal is to make the complex elements of AphasiaBank's database and transcription protocols accessible to novices and foster their active participation in the aphasia research community. Methods: This thesis synthesizes information from existing AphasiaBank manuals into a more acces...

Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity at Cerebellar Golgi Cell Synapses

How does musicians’ motor experience influence the sense of ownership? A preliminary study.

Bodily self-awareness is a multidimensional construct defined as conscious experiences bound to the self as a unitary entity. Bodily self-awareness, among other components, encompasses the fundamental sense of body ownership. However, the way in which the modality of body ownership can be coherent and maintained is not fully comprehended. It has been claimed that integrating proprioceptive interoceptive and exteroceptive signals might have a crucial role in the senses of body ownership. Latel...

Autonomic Regulatory Interaction in Early Life: The impact of technoference on mother-infant co-regulation processes: an Infrared Thermal Imaging exploration

Mother-infant interactions are crucial for newborns to achieve self-regulation through finely tuned coregulation. In modern life, the pervasive use of smartphones and social media influences these interactions, consequently affecting coregulation. This thesis has investigated the impact of technoference and paper-ference on maternal and infant thermal and behavioral responses during dyadic interactions. Applying infrared thermal imaging (ITI), the study examined how maternal distraction by s...

Precursors of Socio-Cognitive Development in Infants with Visual Impairment and in Sighted Controls from 9 to 12 Months

Infants’ precursors of social cognition, including social attention and social awareness behaviors, are meant to emerge through face-to-face interactions early during their development. Their initial tendency to approach social stimuli and later gain awareness of others’ internal processes create a foundation for social, communicative, and cognitive abilities. By 9 months, behavioral indicators of this development are quite evident. Infants with visual impairment (VI) might follow atypical de...