People

Faculty | Post-Doctoral Researchers | Research Fellows | PhD students

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Faculty

Fernando Barbosa, PhD (Director)

• Psychobiology of anti-social behavior and psychopathy
• Associate Editor: Frontiers in Psychology
• Editorial Board Member (handling editor): Scientific Reports

Fernando Ferreira-Santos, PhD (Executive Coordinator)

• Affective predictive processing; perception of emotion across development; influence of emotion on social cognition (moral judgment and social decision-making)
• Associate Editor: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• Associate Editor: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica | Psychology: Research and Review
• Editorial Board Member (handling editor): Scientific Reports

João Marques Teixeira, MD, PhD (Past-Director)

• Neuropsychology and electrophysiology of cognition

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Post-doctoral Researchers

None at the moment.

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Research Fellows

None at the moment.

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PhD Students

Carolina Costa (FCT Scholarship)

• Personality and the microbiome

Diana Tavares

• Neurophysiology, Behavioral Psychology, and Neuroethics

Eduarda Ramião (FCT Scholarship)

• Differential characteristics of psychopathy traits and callous-unemotional traits in juvenile offenders

Inês Macedo (FCT Scholarship)

• Neuropsychophysiological correlates of brain activity of cannabis users and their recovery with abstinence

Joana Fernandes

• Neural and behavioral correlates of the association between eating behavior and emotions, emotional processing in obesity

Miguel Peixoto (ESS/IPP Scholarship)

• Neuropsychophysiological correlates of gambling

Prune Mazer (FCT Scholarship 2021.07199.BD)

• Predictive processing in Autism and Schizophrenia

Rita Almeida (FCT Scholarship PD/BD/150480/2019)

• Uncovering the influence of empathy on emotional processing during adolescence: Cross-sectional ERP studies

Soraia Monteiro (FCT Scholarship 2021.06678.BD)

• Validation of remote online neuropsychological assessment

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External Associated Researchers

Artemisa Dores, PhD

• Neurocognitive rehabilitation, serious games, pathological gambling, clinical communication in health care, and educational research.

Carlos Campos, PhD

• The role of interoception on social behavior, personality, and psychopathology; interoceptive predictive processing; heartbeat-evoked potentials

Carina Fernandes, PhD

• The effects of healthy and pathological aging on the different domains of social cognition, and implications for economic decision-making and well-being

Celeste Silveira, PhD

• Psychopathology, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia

Rita Pasion, PhD

• Psychopathology, Research Domain Criteria, psychopathy, antisocial behavior, cognition, executive functioning, ERP (Error-Related Negativity)

Tiago O. Paiva, PhD

• Brain correlates of psychopathic personality traits and decision making.

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Recent PhD Alumni:

• Mariana R. Pereira (FCT Scholarship PD/BD/135429/2017)
• Fábio Carneiro (FCT Scholarship 2023.00362.BD - Interrupted)
• Catarina Prata (FCT Scholarship SFRH/BD/148277/2019)
• Andreia Azeredo (FCT Scholarship)
• Marta Oliveira (FCT Scholarship PD/BD/143067/2018)
• Andreia Geraldo (FCT Scholarship SFRH/BD/138723/2018)
• Joana Pinto
• Rita Pasion (FCT Scholarship SFRH/BD/117130/2016)
• Tiago O. Paiva (FCT Scholarship)
• Joana Lopes (FCT Scholarship SFRH/BD/90853/2012)
• Diana Moreira (FCT Scholarship SFRH/BD/108216/2015)
• Renata Alves (FCT Scholarship PD/BD/114266/2016)
• Carlos Campos (FCT Scholarship)
• Patrícia Figueiredo (FCT Scholarship SFRH/BD/133694/2017)

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