Eunice Gomes Fernandes (201D-241A-4A21)

Curriculum Vitae

Eunice Gomes Fernandes

Researcher in Cognitive Psychology / Psycholinguistics. In 2015 I was awarded my PhD in Cognitive Science (University of Lisbon). I carried my research at the Psycholinguistics Lab from Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, supervised by Prof. Armanda Costa. The PhD research focused on syntactic priming and I used methods such as self-paced reading and eye-tracking. During the PhD I was a visiting student at the University of Edinburgh, where I met Prof. Holly Branigan and Prof. Moreno Coco, who became my co-supervisors. As a post-doctoral researcher, I worked in Paris-Diderot University - France (2016) with Prof. Barbara Hemforth in a project investigating cross-linguistic pronoun resolution. In 2017 and 2018 I continued doing research at the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with Miguel Borges and Prof. Moreno Coco, on the topics of Ageing and Visual Processing. In 2109 and 2020 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen - UK, where I integrated the project Social Attention and Ageing, led by Professors Louise Phillips and Ben Tatler. We examined gaze following in younger and older adults in a set of eye-tracking experiments. Between 2021 and 2024 I was at the University of Agder, Norway. The Fitness, Ageing and Bilingualism study (https://www.fab-study.com/about-the-project/), led by Prof. Linda Wheeldon, examined age-differences and bilingualism effects in language and cognitive function, and further investigated how these functions are affected by physical fitness, through the implementation of a physical exercise intervention. I am currently an auxiliar researcher at University of Minho, where I will develop a project on the intersection between social attention and language comprehension in young and older adults, as well as mono- and bilingual populations. My research focuses on Psycholinguistics (language comprehension and production, bilingualism) but extends to other areas of Human Cognition like Ageing, Visual Attention, Social Attention. I have worked with several behavioural techniques, including extensive use of eye-tracking, and I am currently acquiring new skills in the EEG technique to obtain physiological measures indexing human cognitive processing.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Eunice Gomes Fernandes

Nomes de citação

Fernandes, Eunice G.

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 201D-241A-4A21
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1448-3256

Endereços de correio eletrónico

e.fernandes1977@gmail.com (Profissional)
eunice.fernandes@psi.uminho.pt (Profissional)

Telefones

Telemóvel

968023778 (Profissional)

Websites

https://www.fab-study.com/about-the-project/ (Académico)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Sociais - Psicologia

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Português (Idioma materno)
Francês	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B1)
Espanhol; Castelhano	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2011/09/01 - 2015/10/08 Concluído	Cognitive Science (Doutoramento) Especialização em Psycholinguistics Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Syntactic Priming as a Window into the Representational and Experiential Basis of Syntactic Processing in Comprehension. " (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Distinção e louvor
2008/09/01 - 2009/09/30 Concluído	Prospectiva, Estratégia e Inovação (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2003/09/01 - 2007/02/02 Concluído	Literatura Portuguesa (Mestrado) Especialização em Literatura Portuguesa Medieval Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Aspectos da escrita no Livro da Montaria" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	17
1998/09/01 - 2002/07/22 Concluído	Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	15

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2024/08/08 - 2030/07/07	Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2024/05/31	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Universitetet i Agder, Noruega

2019/01/14 - 2020/12/31	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, Reino Unido
	University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, Reino Unido
2017/01/01 - 2018/12/31	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Université Paris Descartes, França
	Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, França

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2011/09 - 2015/08	Syntactic Priming as a Window into the Representational and Experiential Basis of Syntactic Processing in Comprehension SFRH/BD/72307/2010	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluído

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2021/01/01 - Atual	Fitness, Ageing and Bilingualism (FAB): The benefits of regular exercise and bilingualism for language abilities in healthy aging. 300030 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Universitetet i Agder, Noruega Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Noruega	Norges forskningsråd Concluído
2024/08/08 - 2030/08/07	Language in social context: Pragmatic processing during comprehension in old age and bilingualism. 10.54499/2023.09307.CEECIND/CP2841/CT0028 2023.09307.CEECIND/CP2841/CT0028 Universidade do Minho, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso
2019/01/14 - 2020/12/31	Social Attention and Ageing ES/P005330/1 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, Reino Unido	Economic and Social Research Council Concluído
2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31	Meaning and Understanding across Languages ANR-10-LABX-0083 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, França	Agence nationale de la recherche Concluído

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em boletim informativo	Wheeldon, Linda; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Fosstveit, S.. "Better fitness improved language understanding in many older adults", University of Agder's Research news, 2025, https://www.uia.no/english/research/research-news/better-fitness-improved-language-understanding-in-older.html.
Artigo em conferência	Fernandes, Eunice; Moreno I. Coco; Maria Armanda Martins da Costa. "Bridging Mechanisms of Reading, Viewing and Working Memory during Attachment Resolution of Ambiguous Relative Clauses.". Trabalho apresentado em EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, 2015. Publicado
Artigo em jornal	Phillips, Louise; Fernandes, Eunice G.. "Scientists search for differing secrets of friendship across the generations", The Sunday Post , 2019, https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/buds-thicker-than-water-scientists-search-for-secrets-of-friendship-to-see-if-pals-or-relatives-makes-us-happiest. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Phillips, Louise. "Aberdeen University study aims to tackle loneliness among both young and old", The Voice of the North, 2019, https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1736344/aberdeen-university-study-aims-to-tackle-loneliness-among-both-young-and-old/?sso-c=MC4zNzU0NzMwMCAxNTU4OTQwNzE1.
Artigo em revista	Moreno I. Coco; Eunice G. Fernandes; Manabu Arai; Frank Keller. "The Cross-linguistic Coordination of Overt Attention and Speech Production as Evidence for a Language of Vision". Cognitive Science 50 (2026): e70185. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70185. Publicado • 10.31234/osf.io/z98mw_v3 Rahman, Foyzul; Tsvetanov, Kamen A.; Feron, Jack; Mullinger, Karen; Joyce, Kelsey; Gilani, Ahmed; Fernandes, Eunice G.; et al. "Explaining tip-of-the-tongue experiences in older adults: The role of brain-based and cardiorespiratory fitness factors". Neurobiology of Aging 154 (2025): 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.06.008. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.06.008 Prystauka, Yanina; Rahman, Foyzul; Busby, Natalie; Roeser, Jens; Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan; Feron, Jack; Lucas, Samuel J. E.; et al. "Assessing the Utility of Predicted Brain Age for Explaining Variability in Language Abilities in Healthy Older Adults". Neurobiology of Language 6 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1162/nol.a.21. Publicado • 10.1162/nol.a.21 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Fosstveit, Sindre H.; Feron, Jack; Rahman, Foyzul; Lucas, Samuel J. E.; Lohne-Seiler, Hilde; Berntsen, Sveinung; et al. "Effects of increasing fitness through exercise training on language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual older adults: a randomized controlled trial". Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 32 4 (2024): 485-517. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2435914. Publicado • 10.1080/13825585.2024.2435914 Coco, Moreno I.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Arai, Manabu; Keller, Frank. "Scan pattern similarity predicts the semantic similarity of sentences across languages above and beyond their syntactic structures.". Journal of Vision 24 10 (2024): 810. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.10.810. 10.1167/jov.24.10.810 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Segaert, Katrien; Rahman, Foyzul; Wetterlin, Allison; Wheeldon, Linda. "Bilingualism and ageing independently impact on language processing: evidence from comprehension and production". Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 28 3 (2024): 778-792. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728924000245. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1017/s1366728924000245 Markiewicz, Roksana; Rahman, Foyzul; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Limachya, Rupali; Wetterlin, Allison; Wheeldon, Linda; Segaert, Katrien. "Effects of healthy ageing and bilingualism on attention networks". Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 28 3 (2024): 802-815. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728924000154. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1017/s1366728924000154 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Tatler, Benjamin W.; Slessor, Gillian; Phillips, Louise H.. "Age Differences in Gaze Following: Older Adults Follow Gaze More than Younger Adults When free-viewing Scenes". Experimental Aging Research 50 1 (2024): 84-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073x.2022.2156760. Publicado • 10.1080/0361073x.2022.2156760 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Phillips, Louise H.; Slessor, Gillian; Tatler, Benjamin W.. "The interplay between gaze and consistency in scene viewing: Evidence from visual search by young and older adults". Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics 83 5 (2021): 1954-1970. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02242-z. Publicado • 10.3758/s13414-021-02242-z Borges, Miguel T.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Coco, Moreno I.. "Age-related differences during visual search: the role of contextual expectations and cognitive control mechanisms". Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition (2019): 1-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2019.1632256. Publicado • 10.1080/13825585.2019.1632256 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Coco, Moreno I.; Branigan, Holly P.. "When eye fixation might not reflect online ambiguity resolution in the visual-world paradigm: structural priming following multiple primes in Portuguese". Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 3 S1 (2019): 65-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00021-9. Publicado • 10.1007/s41809-019-00021-9 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Luegi, Paula; Correa Soares, Eduardo; de la Fuente, Israel; Hemforth, Barbara. "Adaptation in pronoun resolution: Evidence from Brazilian and European Portuguese.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 44 12 (2018): 1986-2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000569. Publicado • 10.1037/xlm0000569
Poster em conferência	Albrecht, M. A.; Segaert, K.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Wetterlin, A.; Wheeldon, L.. "Fluency and complexity in speech production: effects of healthy ageing". Trabalho apresentado em 23rd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, 2025. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Prystauka, Yanina; Rahman, Foyzul; Wetterlin, Allison; Segaert, Katrien; Wheeldon, Linda. "Age-related effects of language proficiency and use on language switching.". Trabalho apresentado em 31st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, 2025. Rahman, Foyzul; Tsvetanov, K.; Feron, Jack; Joyce, K.; Gilani, A; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Wetterlin, A.; Wheeldon, Linda; Segaert, Katrien. "The role of cardiorespiratory fitness and brain health in age-related cognitive decline: insights from tip-of-the-tongue states". Trabalho apresentado em The 30th European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Annual Congress, 2025. Prystauka, Yanina; Tsvetanov, K.; Rahman, Foyzul; Feron, J.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Wetterlin, A.; Lucas, S. J. E.; Wheeldon, L.; Segaert, K.. "Does regular physical exercise mitigate age-related decline in word production?". Trabalho apresentado em Annual Meeting fo the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2024. Rahman, Foyzul; Tsvetanov, Kamen A.; Feron, Jack; Joyce, K.; Gilani, A.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Wetterlin, Allison; et al. "Neural and Cardiovascular Determinants of Tip-of-The-Tongue States in Health Ageing". Trabalho apresentado em Psychonomic Society's 64th Annual Meeting (Psychonomics), 2023. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Katrien Segaert; Foyzul Rahman; Prof. Allison Wetterlin; Prof. Linda Wheeldon. "Independent effects of ageing and bilingualism on language processing". Trabalho apresentado em 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2023. Louise Phillips; Gillian Slessor; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Ben Tatler. Autor correspondente: Louise Phillips. "Age differences in the nature of gaze cueing.". Trabalho apresentado em 6th International Conference Aging & Cognition 2021, 2021. Louise Phillips; Gillian Slessor; Eunice G. Fernandes; Ben Tatler. "Older and younger adults show different patterns of following gaze cues in real and schematic faces". Trabalho apresentado em Experimental Psychology Society meeting, 2021. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Paula Luegi. "Statistical Learning in Pronoun Resolution". Trabalho apresentado em Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, 2019. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Louise Phillips; Gillian Slessor; Chris Luke; Ben Tatler; Teodor Nikolov. "Effects of age and type of face on the time course of gaze cueing effects.". Trabalho apresentado em International Convention of Psychological Science., 2019. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Paula Luegi; Eduardo Correa Soares; Israel de la Fuente; Barbara Hemforth. "How to Turn Brazilians into Europeans: Global and Local Exposure Effects on Co-Reference in European and Brazilian Portuguese". Trabalho apresentado em Arquitectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2016. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Paula Luegi; Eduardo Correa Soares; Israel de la Fuente; Barbara Hemforth. "Relative Clause-attachment in European (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP): Effects of verb type, tense and variety". Trabalho apresentado em Arquitectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2016. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Moreno I. Coco; Holly P. Branigan. "Saturating the anticipatory mechanisms of syntactic priming during situated language understanding". Trabalho apresentado em Arquitectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2014.

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2023/04/27	Language processing in Ageing and Bilingualism: Evidence from the Fitness, Ageing and Bilingualism project.	AcqVA lunch meeting AcqVA Aurora Research centre, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø, Noruega)
2019/08/21	Perceptual complexity of face stimuli modulates gaze following in old age.	European Conference on Eye Movements (Alicante, Espanha)

Orientação

	Título / Tema Papel desempenhado	Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2022/06/01 - Atual	Transfer of speech individual differences from L1 to L2 Coorientador de Øystein Søren Østerhus	Master (Mestrado) Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Noruega
2024/02 - 2025/12/17	The Impact of Instructions on Situation Awareness: An Eye-Tracking Study Coorientador de Mara Marisa Costa Tavares	Cognição Humana (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Psicologia Básica, Portugal
2020/01/06 - 2020/12/31	Pronoun resolution in Mandarin Chinese and European Portuguese Coorientador de Conor Gerard McCullough	Psychology (Licenciatura/Bacharelato) University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, Reino Unido

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2026/01/22 - 2026/01/23	Eye-tracking Workshop, two-day long, with theoretical and hands-on sessions (2026/01/22 - 2026/01/23) Oficina (workshop) (Outra)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2017/08/28 - 2017/09/01	Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology Oficina (workshop)	Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology Universität Potsdam, Alemanha
2010/10/14 - 2010/10/15	1st International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion. Conferência	1st International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion. Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Consultoria / Parecer

	Descrição da atividade	Instituição / Organização
2018/09/01 - 2020/12/31	Statistical analyses’ services / consulting for the Psycholinguistics Lab – Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa.	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2026/02 - Atual	Métodos de Investigação Avançados e Análise de Dados	Métodos de Investigação Avançados e Análise de Dados (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/02 - Atual	Psychology of Language	Psicologia da Linguagem (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/01/09 - 2023/04/03	Bilingualism: Second language production and perception EN-460-1 This course engages students with the issue of bilingualism with focus on English as a second language.	English (Master)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for Helse og Idrettsvitenskap, Noruega
2022/08/22 - 2022/10/31	Research Methodologies for Language, Linguistics, and Translation Studies. This course is a key preparatory course for independent work on master's theses. Topics to be covered include general approaches to research, e.g. quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research, the role of research methodology in a research project, criteria for research quality, and ethical issues.	English (Master)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Noruega
2022/08/08 - 2022/10/31	Language Acquisition EN-469-1 The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the key issues in language acquisition and the various theories and approaches that seek to explain how children acquire language.	English (Master)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Noruega
2022/08/08 - 2022/10/31	Aspects of English Morphology EN-211-1 The course introduces students to the linguistic structure of English words: basic terms and concepts in morphological analysis; inflectional morphology and derivational morphology; relationship of morphology to both phonology and semantics.	English (Bachelor)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Noruega
2020/01/06 - 2020/04/20	Introductory Psychology: Concepts and Theory II - Workshops. The aims are to introduce Psychology as the science of behaviour and mental processes. This is done by looking at knowledge gained from experiments and other scientific methods across a wide spectrum of the subject, examining some of the theoretical models derived from this knowledge, and discussing the methods used to obtain this knowledge. Specific topics are: Developmental Psychology, Evolution & Emotion, and Sensation & Perception.	Psychology (Bachelor)	University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, Reino Unido
2014/11/07 - 2014/12/19	Experimental Research Methodologies, Centro de Linguística, Universidade de Lisboa (coordinated by Profs. A. Costa and S. Frota): Teaching Assistant.	Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

	Descrição da atividade	Jornal / Forum
2019/05/26	Interview given by the PI (Prof. Louise Phillips) of the project on Gaze Following, to the Sunday Post. The interview was intended to disseminate the project and to promote the recruitment of participants for the studies being conducted. I am the person to be contacted by people interested in our project. https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/buds-thicker-than-water-scientists-search-for-secrets-of-friendship-to-see-if-pals-or-relatives-makes-us-happiest/	The Sunday Post

Membro de comissão

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de participação	Instituição / Organização
2014/01/08 - 2014/01/10	ConSOLE XXII. University of Lisbon, January 8-10 2014 Membro	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Revisão ad hoc de artigos em revista

	Nome da revista (ISSN)	Editora
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/19	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology	Sage
2021/04/20 - 2021/04/20	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (0278-7393)	Aaron S. Benjamin
2021/02/03 - 2021/02/03	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (0278-7393)	Aaron S. Benjamin
2020/10/13 - 2020/10/13	Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (2327-379)	Taylor and Francis
2020/03/30 - 2020/03/30	International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (1234-988X)	Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2019/08/18 - 2019/08/18	Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (1939-1285)	American Psychological Association
2019/03/14 - 2019/03/14	Cognition (0010-0277)	Science Direct
2019/01/23 - 2019/01/23	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (0278-7393)	Aaron S. Benjamin

Tutoria

	Tópico	Nome do aluno
2019/01/14 - Atual	Eye tracking methodology	Vestina Sciaponaite, Sarah Kenny
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/31		Renate Gjentes, Øystein Østerhus, Helene Øya, Ellinor Skjerli, Ali Kalib