La réalité virtuelle est un outil de plus en plus utilisé par et pour les personnes aînées. Par contre, il y a peu de connaissances scientifiques entourant l’utilisation de cette technologie dans le cadre d’expériences de nature sociale. Ce projet vise donc à mieux comprendre comment les personnes aînées réagissent à des activités de sensibilisations […]

Episodic memory, our fascinating ability to encode and mentally relive past experiences, lies at the core of human cognition. It allows individuals not only to recall past events, but it is crucial in planning and guiding future behavior. However, among all of our daily-life experiences, only some events will be transformed into lasting memories, particularly […]

Our research seeks to better understand challenges that translators encounter in translating stories for the diverse sites on the Global Storybooks portal (https://globalstorybooks.net/), and how they resolve these challenges. We will draw on our existing database of translation data to investigate how translators draw on a range of linguistic resources to achieve a satisfactory representation […]

Reliability is a fundamental requirement for computational systems, brains and artificial models alike: a system should respond the same way for repeated presentations of the same stimulus. However, the brain has two features that can threaten its reliability: intrinsic stochasticity and chaos. Stochasticity takes the form of random fluctuations affecting the reliability of components of […]

Neuroscience-inspired AI has emerged as state-of-the-art in many machine learning applications. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a machine learning tool used to learn patterns in sequential (time-dependent) data which have also been used to model neural dynamics in the brain. Various frameworks have been developed to create RNNs capable of learning from data which have […]

Socio-emotional skills are crucial for developing satisfying relationships; failure in this domain can have significant consequences for well-being across the lifespan such as bullying, social anxiety and isolation. However, no well-validated socio-emotional assessments exist, limiting our ability to effectively intervene. The Paediatric Evaluation of Emotions Relationships and Socialisation (PEERS) battery was developed by the Australian […]

The perception of external stimuli is traditionally considered to result solely from the processing of thalamic signals through direct cortico-cortical connections between areas organized in a hierarchical manner1. In this corticocentric view, the potential role of higher-order (HO) thalamic nuclei that are reciprocally connected to cortical areas is not considered. The main objective of this […]

Neuromorphic computing is an approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that uses hardware elements inspired by the components of the brain and presents an alternative to the dominant von Neumann computing paradigm based on digital hardware. Recently, nano-scale devices known as memristors have been identified to offer area- and energy-efficient solutions when used in neuromorphic computing […]

Data acquisition at scale implies missing values: in the biological signals as well as in the demographics and questionnaire data. These missing values are structured –missingness appears as blocks– and often causal –more missing health information for lower income individuals. While there are many works on the treatment of missing values in the clinical trial […]

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disease that causes skeletal muscle degeneration. As the disease progresses, the affected individuals lose their ability to breathe and walk. Currently, there is no definitive cure for this disease. Previous research found CD82, a protein expressed on the surface of skeletal muscle cells, to be decreased by 2.5 […]

Internationalization is a key aspect in strategic planning of most of top universities across the globe. This proposal aims to collect documents and observe (institutional ethnography methodology) two winter courses promoted by the “Universidad Nacional del Litoral” (UNL, Argentina). Winter courses are a milestone in the internationalization process of the UNL and interestingly they are […]

To share music with others can prove to be a challenge. Throughout time, humans have managed in different ways. First, it was transmitted orally. The downside of it is that the receiver must be physically present in order to capture the information. With the apparition of musical notation around 1400 BC, the previous requirement is […]