• Effect of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on the tourism industry in countries of the Caribbean Community 

      González-Rozada, Martín; Prieto-Lara, Elisa; Sandoval, Guillermo A. (2022)
      Objective. To assess whether the introduction of comprehensive smoke-free legislation affected tourism in four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Methods. We ...
    • Equilibrium and Real Options in the Ethanol Industry: Modelling and Empirical Evidence 

      Merener, Nicolás; Davison, Matt (Journal of Commodity MarketsElsevier B.V., 2022)
      In the last twenty years a large number of competitive ethanol rms have estab- lished operations in the US. Ethanol, produced from corn, is blended with pure gasoline to produce fuel. Producers hold an option to turn o ...
    • Exploiting user-frequency information for mining regionalisms in Argentinian Spanish from Twitter 

      Gravano, Agustín; Pérez, Juan Manuel; Aleman, Damian E.; Kalinowski, Santiago N. (Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Revista, 2022)
      The task of detecting regionalisms (expressions or words used in certain regions) has traditionally relied on the use of questionnaires and surveys, heavily depending on the expertise and intuition of the surveyor. The ...
    • The globalizability of temporal discounting 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Freiras, Lucía; et al. (Nature Human Behaviour, 2022)
      Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of ...
    • Working Memory for Spatial Sequences: Developmental and Evolutionary Factors in Encoding Ordinal and Relational Structures 

      Sigman, Mariano; He Shang; Yanfen Zhen; Shijing Yu; Tenghai Long; Bingqian Zhang; Xinjian Jiang; Junru Li; Wen Fang; Dehane, Stanislas; Liping Wang (Journal of Neuroscience, 2022)
      Sequence learning is a ubiquitous facet of human and animal cognition. Here, using a common sequence reproduction task, we investigated whether and how the ordinal and relational structures linking consecutive elements ...
    • Imagetic and affective measures of memory reverberation diverge at sleep onset in association with theta rhythm 

      Sigman, Mariano; Bezerra Mota, Natália; Soares, Ernesto; Altszyler, Edgar; Sánchez-Gendriz, Ignacio; Muto, Vincenzo; Heib, Dominik; Slezak, Diego F.; Copelli, Mauro; Schabus, Manuel; Ribeiro, Sidarta (Elsevier Inc, 2022)
      The ‘day residue’ - the presence of waking memories into dreams - is a century-old concept that remains controver- sial in neuroscience. Even at the psychological level, it remains unclear how waking imagery cedes into ...
    • Chronotype at the beginning of secondary school and school timing are both associated with chronotype development during adolescence 

      Goldín, Andrea Paula; Sigman, Mariano; Rodríguez Ferrante, Guadalupe; Leone, María Juliana (Scientific Reports, 2022)
      The misalignment between late chronotypes and early school start times affect health, performance and psychological well-being of adolescents. Here we test whether, and how, the baseline chronotype (i.e. chronotype at the ...
    • Diversity of opinions promotes herding in uncertain crowds 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Armand, Oriane; Moran, Rani; Bahrami, Bahador; Deroy, Ophelia (Royal Society Open Science, 2022)
      Classic and recent studies demonstrate how we fall for the ‘tyranny of the majority' and conform to the dominant trend when uncertain. However, in many social interactions outside of the laboratory, there is rarely a clearly ...
    • The Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Röseler, Lukas; Weber, Lucia; et. al (Journal of Open Psychology DataUbiquity Press, 2022)
      People’s estimates are biased toward previously considered numbers (anchoring). We have aggregated all available data from anchoring studies that included at least two anchors into one large dataset. Data were standardized ...
    • Assessing the Impact of Contextual Information in Hate Speech Detection 

      Gravano, Agustín; Pérez, Juan Manuel; Luque, Franco M; Zeyat, Demián; Kondratzky, Martín; Moro, Agustín; Serrati, Pablo Santiago; Zajac, Joaquín; Miguel, Paula; Debandi, Natalia; Cotik, Viviana (2023)
      Social networks and other digital media deal with huge amounts of user-generated contents where hate speech has become a problematic more and more relevant. A great effort has been made to develop automatic tools for its ...
    • The presence of irrelevant alternatives paradoxically increases confidence in perceptual decisions 

      Sigman, Mariano; Comay, Nicolás; Della Bella, Gabriel; Lamberti, Pedro; Solovey, Guillermo; Barttfeld, Pablo (Cognition, 2023)
      Confidence in perceptual decisions is thought to reflect the probability of being correct. According to this view, confidence should be unaffected or minimally reduced by the presence of irrelevant alternatives. To test ...
    • Bone-GAN: Generation of virtual bone microstructure of high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography 

      Iarussi, Emmanuel; Thomsen, Felix S. L.; Borggrefe, Jan; Boyd, Steven K.; Wang, Yue; Battié, Michele C. (Medical PhysicsAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023)
      Background:Data-driven development of medical biomarkers of bone requires a large amount of image data but physical measurements are generally too restricted in size and quality to perform a robust training. Purpose: ...
    • NORHA: A NORmal Hippocampal Asymmetry Deviation Index Based on One-Class Novelty Detection and 3D Shape Features 

      Iarussi, Emmanuel; Deangeli, Duilio; Külsgaard, Hernán; Iarussi, Francisco; Braggio, Delfina; Princich, Juan Pablo; Bendersky, Mariana; Larrabide, Ignacio; Orlando, José Ignacio (Brain TopographySpringer, 2023)
      Radiologists routinely analyze hippocampal asymmetries in magnetic resonance (MR) images as a biomarker for neurodegenerative conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s Disease. However, current clinical tools rely on either ...
    • A better alignment between chronotype and school timing is associated with lower grade retention in adolescents 

      Rodríguez Ferrante, Guadalupe; Goldín, Andrea Paula; Sigman, Mariano; Leone, María Juliana (NPJ Science of Learning, 2023)
      Schools start early in the morning all over the world, contrasting with adolescents’ late chronotype. Interestingly, lower academic performance (i.e. grades or qualifications) was associated with later chronotypes. However, ...
    • A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19 

      Navajas, Joaquín; Ruggeri, Kai; Haslam, S. Alexander; Capraro, Valerio; Boggio, Paulo; Ellemers, Naomi; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Douglas, Karen M.; Rand, David G.; van der Linden, Sander; Cikara, Mina; Finkel, Eli J.; Druckman, James N.; Wohl, Michael J. A.; Petty, Richard E.; Tucker, Joshua A.; Shariff, Azim; Gelfand, Michele; Packer, Dominic; Jetten, Jolanda; Van Lange, Paul A. M.; Pennycook, Gordon; Peters, Ellen; Baicker, Katherine; Crum, Alia; Weeden, Kim A.; Napper, Lucy; Tabri, Nassim; Zaki, Jamil; Skitka, Linda; Kitayama, Shinobu; Mobbs, Dean; Sunstein, Cass R.; Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah; Todsen, Anna Louise; Hajian, Ali; Verra, Sanne; Buehler, Vanessa; Friedemann, Maja; Hecht, Marlene; Mobarak, Rayyan S.; Karakasheva, Ralitsa; Tünte, Markus R.; Yeung, Siu; Kit Rosenbaum, R. Shayna; Lep, Žan; Yamada, Yuki; Hudson, Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn; Macchia, Lucía; Soboleva, Irina; Dimant, Eugen; Geiger, Sandra J.; Jarke, Hannes; Wingen, Tobias; Berkessel, Jana B.; Mareva, Silvana; McGill, Lucy; Papa, Francesca; Većkalov, Bojana; Afif, Zeina; Buabang, Eike K.; Landman, Marna; Tavera, Felice; Andrews, Jack L.; Bursalıoğlu, Aslı Zupan,; Zorana Wagner, Lisa; Vranka, Marek; Kasdan, David; Chen, Patricia; Hudson, Kathleen R.; Novak, Lindsay M.; Teas, Paul; Rachev, Nikolay R.; Galizzi, Matteo M. (Nature ISSN 1476-4687 (online), 2023)
      Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing how evidence ...
    • Predicción de la satisfacción del usuario a partir de chats de atención al cliente 

      Romanisio, Alejandro; Gravano, Agustín (Memorias de las JAIIO, 2023)
      Los servicios de atención al cliente son determinantes de la experiencia de usuario de las empresas Fintech. Este trabajo busca entender, empleando técnicas de machine learning, qué factores llevan a ...
    • VesselVAE: Recursive Variational Autoencoders for 3D Blood Vessel Synthesis 

      Feldman, Paula; Fainstein, Miguel; Siless, Viviana; Iarussi, Emmanuel; Delrieux, Claudio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
      We present a data-driven generative framework for synthesizing blood vessel 3D geometry. This is a challenging task due to the complexity of vascular systems, which are highly variating in shape, size, and structure. ...
    • Learning normal asymmetry representations for homologous brain structures 

      Bendersky, Mariana; Iarussi, Emmanuel; Deangeli, Duilio; Princich, Juan Pablo; Larrabide, Ignacio; Orlando, José Ignacio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
      Although normal homologous brain structures are approximately symmetrical by definition, they also have shape differences due to e.g. natural ageing. On the other hand, neurodegenerative conditions induce their own changes ...
    • Teamwork Quality Prediction Using Speech-Based Features 

      Meza, Martín; Gauder, Lara; Estienne, Lautaro; Barchi, Ricardo; Gravano, Agustín; Riera, Pablo; Ferrer, Luciana (SMM23, Workshop on Speech, Music and Mind 2023, 2023)
      This paper describes a novel protocol for annotating teamwork quality and related variables, based only on the speech signal. Our protocol was designed to annotate a Spanish version of the Objects Games corpus, a publicly ...
    • The wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Barrera Lermarchand, Federico; Balenzuela, Pablo; Bahrami,Bahador; Deroy, Ophelia (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
      The aggregation of many lay judgements can generate surprisingly accurate estimates. This effect, known as the “wisdom of the crowd”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making, factchecking news, ...