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    • A statistical model from information theory to explain Zipf's law of brevity 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; González Torre, Iván; Lacasa, Lucas; Kello, Christopher; Luque Serrano, Bartolome (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2019)
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      Brevity and frequency are two crucial factors in the processes of statistical learning. The compression principle had already been used previously to explain the origin of Zipf’s law for the frequency of words. Here we use ...
    • Aplication of a gamification learning system in mechanical engineering studies 

      Pàmies Vilà, Rosa; Fabregat Sanjuan, Albert; Puig Ortiz, Joan; Jordi Nebot, Lluïsa; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2022)
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      The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of using a gamification tool as a new teaching strategy. Specifically, Kahoot! is evaluated as a tool for enhancing student learning. We test the tool empirically in a ...
    • Aplication of a gamification learning system in mechanical engineering studies 

      Pàmies Vilà, Rosa; Fabregat Sanjuan, Albert; Puig Ortiz, Joan; Jordi Nebot, Lluïsa; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-09)
      Conference report
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      The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of using a gamification tool as a new teaching strategy. Specifically, Kahoot! is evaluated as a tool for enhancing student learning. We test the tool empirically in a ...
    • Aprenentatge mòbil i ludificació a una gimcana tecnològica 

      López Núñez, Mercè; Muñoz, Ingrid; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), 2016)
      Conference lecture
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      Es presenta una activitat que resulta de la confluència de les noves tecnologies a través de la utilització del mòbil, amb una metodologia en alça en el món de l’educació: la ludificació, o gamificació, es a dir, aprendre ...
    • Bateria de afasias Western. Cuaderno de estímulos en castellano. 

      Zaragoza Cortés, Maite; Diéguez-Vide, Faustino; Gómez Ruiz, María Isabel; Rosell Clarí, Vicent; Catala Roig, Neus; Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2022-09)
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      Quadern d'estímuls de la bateria d'afàsies Western adaptat per a la llengua castellana. Pensat per a passar a pacients amb afàsia. Es pot aplicar per a controls monolingües en l'estudi en contextos bilingües.
    • Can Menzerath’s law be a criterion of complexity in communication? 

      González Torre, Ivan; Debowski, Lukasz; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2021-08-20)
      Article
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      Menzerath’s law is a quantitative linguistic law which states that, on average, the longer is a linguistic construct, the shorter are its constituents. In contrast, Menzerath-Altmann’s law (MAL) is a precise mathematical ...
    • Cap a l'educació tecnològica 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), 2020-11)
      Article
      Open Access
      En aquest article s’apunta la necessitat d’una educació tecnològica que inclogui la filosofia de la tecnologia i la reflexió tecnoètica a l’educació secundària obligatòria, en la línia del pensament bungeà, i que vagi més ...
    • Capacidad del test de cribado “LINGUADEM” para diferenciar entre controles sanos, pacientes con deterioro cognitivo leve y pacientes con la enfermedad Alzheimer. Sujetos bilíngües catalán-castellano 

      Balaguer Castro, Nicolás; Gómez Ruiz, María Isabel; Cerrillo, Montserrat; Diéguez Vide, Faust; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Batalla Garangou, Xavier (2015)
      Conference report
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      Objetivos: La enfermad de Alzheimer (EA) es una enfermedad neurodegenerativa que en sus fases iniciales no solo afecta a la memoria, sino también al lenguaje. Este es un estudio piloto cuyo objetivo es determinar la capacidad ...
    • Ciencia ficción en materiales educativos para la enseñanza de las ciencias y la tecnología 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Talaiots, 2016-11)
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      En el presente artículo se revisan sucintamente las posibilidades y capacidades educativas de la ciencia ficción en los libros de texto, y se presentan ejemplos de cómo plantear la ciencia ficción en actividades introductorias ...
    • Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Lusseau, David; Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy; Hsu, Minna J.; Semple, Stuart (Wiley, 2013)
      Article
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      A key aim in biology and psychology is to identify fundamental principles underpinning the behavior of animals, including humans. Analyses of human language and the behavior of a range of non-human animal species have ...
    • Compression principle and Zipf’s Law of brevity in infochemical communication 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; González Torre, Iván (2022-07)
      Article
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      Compression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf’s Law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalized as the tendency of more frequent communicative elements to ...
    • Cuatro consideraciones para la enseñanza en la pandemia 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2020-09-01)
      Article
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      La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha provocado la mayor disrupción en los sistemas educativos de la historia de la Humanidad, según el informe de este agosto de 2020 de las Naciones Unidas. En el mejor de los casos se ha dado ...
    • La cultura científica de l'estudiantat d'enginyeria i futur professorat de secundària 

      Aragoneses Aguado, Andrés; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2011-07-11)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
    • Desvelando los misterios de las feromonas 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; González Torre, Iván (2022-09-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Aunque a los humanos nos llame más la atención todo lo audiovisual, la mayor parte de la comunicación que se da en los seres vivos se realiza mediante señales químicas. La vida es química, más que cualquier otra cosa. La ...
    • Disclosure day on relativity: a science activity beyond the classroom 

      Aragoneses, Andrés; Salán Ballesteros, Maria Núria; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2017-04)
      Article
      Open Access
      An important goal for students in engineering education is the ability to present and defend a project in front of a technical audience. We have designed an activity for helping students to work the independent learning ...
    • Does like seek like? The formation of working groups in a programming project 

      Sanou Gozalo, Eduard; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Arias Vicente, Marta; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (Omnia Publisher SL (OmniaScience), 2017-02)
      Article
      Open Access
      In a course of the degree of computer science, the programming project has changed from individual to teamed work, tentatively in couples (pair programming). Students have full freedom to team up with minimum intervention ...
    • Does like seek like?: the formation of working groups in a programming project 

      Sanou Gozalo, Eduard; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Arias Vicente, Marta; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (OmniaScience, 2017-06)
      Article
      Open Access
      In a course of the degree of computer science, the programming project has changed from individual to teamed work, tentatively in couples (pair programming). Students have full freedom to team up with minimum intervention ...
    • El origen de la física moderna : el papel de Fermi 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2014-08)
      Article
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      La primera mitad del siglo XX fue crucial para que la ciencia moderna se estableciese tal y como la conocemos. El ser humano extendió su comprensión del mundo tras explorar el mundo atómico y el astronómico. Entender lo ...
    • Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice 

      González Torre, Iván; Luque Serrano, Bartolo; Lacasa, Lucas; Miramontes, Octavio; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2017)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Linguistic laws constitute one of the quantitative cornerstones of modern cognitive sciences and have been routinely investigated in written corpora, or in the equivalent transcription of oral corpora. This means that ...
    • Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice 

      González Torre, Iván; Luque Serrano, Bartolo; Lacasa, Lucas; Luque, Jordi; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Macmillan Publishers, 2017-03-08)
      Article
      Open Access
      Linguistic laws constitute one of the quantitative cornerstones of modern cognitive sciences and have been routinely investigated in written corpora, or in the equivalent transcription of oral corpora. This means that ...