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- Versão portuguesa - Tiago Monteiro concluiu o Mestrado integrado em Psicologia em 2008 pela Universidade do Minho, Licenciatura em Psicologia em 2007 pela mesma universidade e o Doutoramento em Zoologia em 2013 pela Universidade de Oxford. É Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) na Universidade de Aveiro. Publicou 18 artigos em revistas especializadas. Recebeu 3 prémios e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Doutoramento em 1 projeto, Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento em 3 projetos, Investigador Pós-doutorado em 3 projetos e Investigador responsável em 1 projetos. Atua nas áreas de Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas, com ênfase em Biologia das Ciências do Comportamento, e Ciências Sociais com ênfase em Psicologia. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Behavioural neuroscience; Computational neuroscience (incl; mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience); Cognitive neuroscience; Behaviour; Comparative cognition; Behavioural ecology; Decision-making; Learning; Risk; Timing; Time perception; Cognição; Systems Neuroscience; Behavior; Neural Circuits; Action; Basal Ganglia; Operant Learning. - English version - Tiago Monteiro completed the Integrated Maters in Psychology in 2008 by Universidade do Minho, Bachelors in Psychology 2007 by the same University and Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology in 2013 the by University of Oxford. He is an Auxiliary Researcher in Universidade de Aveiro. Published 18 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Has received 3 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project, Post-doc in 3 projects, Post-doc Fellow in 3 projects and Principal investigator in 1 project. Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Behavioural Sciences Biology and Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Behavioural neuroscience; Computational neuroscience (incl; mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience); Cognitive neuroscience; Behaviour; Comparative cognition; Behavioural ecology; Decision-making; Learning; Risk; Timing; Time perception; Cognição; Systems Neuroscience; Behavior; Neural Circuits; Action; Basal Ganglia; Operant Learning; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Tiago Monteiro

Citation names

  • Monteiro, Tiago

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0010-AB15-DC70
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2836-8961
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tdg4f7gAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • monteiro.tiago@ua.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/03/02
Concluded
 Zoology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2008/07/24
Concluded
 Psicologia (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Psicologia Experimental
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2007/07/25
Concluded
 Psicologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/07/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2024/02/29 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Univerisity of Oxford Department of Biology, United Kingdom
2022/02/01 - 2023/04/30 Postdoc (Research) Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Austria
Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien Konrad Lorenz Institut fur Vergleichende Verhaltensforschung, Austria
2019/06/15 - 2021/02/14 Postdoc (Research) University of Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Oxford Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
2012/10/01 - 2019/05/31 Postdoc (Research) Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2009/06/01 - 2009/08/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2008/10/01 - 2012/09/30 Decision and timing in Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)
SFRH/BD/43385/2008
PhD Student Fellow
University of Oxford Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/07/01 - 2029/06/30 Centro de Investigação William James
UIDP/04810/2020
10.54499/UIDP/04810/2020
Post-doc
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

William James Center for Research, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2023/07/01 - 2029/06/30 Centro de Investigação William James
UIDB/04810/2020
10.54499/UIDB/04810/2020
Post-doc
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

William James Center for Research, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2022/09/01 - 2023/09/01 A portable touchscreen-based platform for behavioural testing of pet dogs
n.a.
Principal investigator
Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Austria

Konrad-Lorenz-Institut für Evolutions und Kognitionsforschung, Austria
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Ongoing
2019/06/15 - 2021/12/14 Relational Concept Imprinting in Ducklings
RPG-2016-192
Post-doc Fellow
University of Oxford Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
 Leverhulme Trust
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
UID/NEU/04443/2019
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/07/17 - 2019/06/30 Whole-brain mechanisms of operant learning in zebrafish: cells, circuits and behaviour.
PTDC/MED-NEU/32664/2017
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 How the basal ganglia forces cortex to do what it wants
325476
Post-doc Fellow
Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal

INSERM, France
Simons Foundation
Concluded
2013/06/03 - 2016/06/03 Embodied cognition: the nature of time encoding in the brain?
n.a.
Post-doc Fellow
Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal
 Fundação Bial
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2023/07/01 - 2029/06/30 CEEC institucional
CDL-CTTRI-249- SGRH/2022
Post-doc
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. George Martvel; Giulia Pedretti; Teddy Lazebnik; Anna Zamansky; Yuri Ouchi; Monteiro, Tiago; Nareed Farhat; et al. "Does the tail show when the nose knows? Artificial intelligence outperforms human experts at predicting detection dogs finding their target through tail kinematics". Royal Society Open Science (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250399.
    10.1098/rsos.250399
  2. Victor Ajuwon; Monteiro, Tiago; Mark E. Walton; Alex Kacelnik. "Do goldfish like to be informed?". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025): https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2842.
    Open access • Published • 10.1098/rspb.2024.2842
  3. Dániel Rivas-Blanco; Tiago Monteiro; Zsófia Virányi; Friederike Range. "Going back to “basics”: Harlow’s learning set task with wolves and dogs". Learning & Behavior (2024): https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00631-6.
    10.3758/s13420-024-00631-6
  4. Filipe S. Rodrigues; Tiago Monteiro; Asma Motiwala; Joseph J. Paton. "The dorsolateral striatum encodes a temporal basis for the organization of behavior". Neuron (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.022.
    10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.022
  5. Victor Ajuwon; Tiago Monteiro; Alexandra K. Schnell; Nicola S. Clayton. "To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals". Learning & Behavior (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00647-y.
    10.3758/s13420-024-00647-y
  6. Victor Ajuwon; Bruno Cruz; Tiago Monteiro. "GoFish: a foray into open-source, aquatic behavioral automation". Journal of Fish Biology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15937.
    10.1111/jfb.15937
  7. Monteiro, Tiago; Rodrigues, Filipe S.; Pexirra, Margarida; Cruz, Bruno F.; Gonçalves, Ana I.; Rueda-Orozco, Pavel E.; Paton, Joseph J.. "Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision". Nature Neuroscience 26 8 (2023): 1407-1416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01378-5.
    10.1038/s41593-023-01378-5
  8. Victor Ajuwon; Bruno F. Cruz; Paulo Carriço; Alex Kacelnik; Monteiro, Tiago. Corresponding author: Monteiro, Tiago. "GoFish: A low-cost, open-source platform for closed-loop behavioural experiments on fish". Behavior Research Methods (2023): https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02049-2.
    10.3758/s13428-022-02049-2
  9. Kacelnik A; Vasconcelos M; Monteiro, Tiago. Corresponding author: Monteiro, Tiago. "Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings.". Animal cognition (2022): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/36482119.
    10.1007/s10071-022-01723-4
  10. Victor Ajuwon; Andrés Ojeda; Robin A. Murphy; Monteiro, Tiago; Alex Kacelnik. "Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information". Animal Cognition (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01698-2.
    10.1007/s10071-022-01698-2
  11. Monteiro, Tiago; Tom Hart; Alex Kacelnik. Corresponding author: Monteiro, Tiago. "Imprinting on time-structured acoustic stimuli in ducklings". Biology Letters (2021): https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0381.
    10.1101/2021.04.28.441768
  12. Monteiro, Tiago; Marco Vasconcelos; Alex Kacelnik. Corresponding author: Monteiro, Tiago. "Choosing fast and simply: Construction of preferences by starlings through parallel option valuation". PLOS Biology 18 8 (2020): e3000841-e3000841. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000841.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.3000841
  13. Lau, B.; Monteiro, Tiago; Paton, J.J.. "The many worlds hypothesis of dopamine prediction error: implications of a parallel circuit architecture in the basal ganglia". Current Opinion in Neurobiology 46 (2017): 241-247. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030319290&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.conb.2017.08.015
  14. Vasconcelos, M.; Monteiro, Tiago; Kacelnik, A.. "Irrational choice and the value of information". Scientific Reports 5 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941132028&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/srep13874
  15. Thiago S Gouvêa; Monteiro, Tiago; Asma Motiwala; Sofia Soares; Christian Machens; Joseph J Paton. "Striatal dynamics explain duration judgments". eLife 4 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.11386.
    10.7554/elife.11386
  16. Marco Vasconcelos; Monteiro, Tiago. "European starlings unriddle the ambiguous-cue problem". Front. Psychol. 5 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00944.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00944
  17. Thiago S. Gouvêa; Monteiro, Tiago; Sofia Soares; Bassam V. Atallah; Joseph J. Paton. "Ongoing behavior predicts perceptual report of interval duration". Front. Neurorobot. 8 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2014.00010.
    10.3389/fnbot.2014.00010
  18. Monteiro, Tiago; Vasconcelos, M.; Kacelnik, A.. "Starlings uphold principles of economic rationality for delay and probability of reward". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 1756 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878370673&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rspb.2012.2386
  19. Vasconcelos, M.; Monteiro, Tiago; Kacelnik, A.. "Context-Dependent Preferences in Starlings: Linking Ecology, Foraging and Choice". PLoS ONE 8 5 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877958206&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0064934
  20. Vasconcelos, M.; Monteiro, Tiago; Kacelnik, A.. "On the flexibility of lizards' cognition: A comment on Leal & Powell (2011)". Biology Letters 8 1 (2012): 42-43. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856249506&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rsbl.2011.0848
  21. Aw, J.; Monteiro, Tiago; Vasconcelos, M.; Kacelnik, A.. "Cognitive mechanisms of risky choice: Is there an evaluation cost?". Behavioural Processes 89 2 (2012): 95-103. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856367097&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.beproc.2011.09.007
  22. Kacelnik, A.; Vasconcelos, M.; Monteiro, Tiago; Aw, J.. "Darwin's "tug-of-war" vs. starlings' "horse-racing": How adaptations for sequential encounters drive simultaneous choice". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 3 (2011): 547-558. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79951555619&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00265-010-1101-2
  23. Vasconcelos, M.; Monteiro, Tiago; Aw, J.; Kacelnik, A.. "Choice in multi-alternative environments: A trial-by-trial implementation of the Sequential Choice Model". Behavioural Processes 84 1 (2010): 435-439. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77951975224&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.010
  24. Monteiro, Tiago; Machado, A.. "Oscillations following periodic reinforcement". Behavioural Processes 81 2 (2009): 170-188. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-64949190831&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.beproc.2008.10.003
Preprint
  1. Siqi Yang-Fu; Christian Menne; Chiara Canori; Dániel Rivas-Blanco; Oli Green; Friederike Range; Monteiro, Tiago. Corresponding author: Monteiro, Tiago. "On the (limited) use of touchscreen-based behavioural and cognitive research with dogs: potential causes and future directions". 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/69qzu_v1.
    10.31234/osf.io/69qzu_v1
  2. Victor Ajuwon; Monteiro, Tiago; Mark Walton; Alex Kacelnik. Corresponding author: Alex Kacelnik. "Do goldfish like to be informed?". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.17.585404.
    10.1101/2024.03.17.585404
  3. Dániel Rivas-Blanco; Monteiro, Tiago; Zsófia Virányi; Friederike Range. "Going back to "basics": Harlow's learning set task in wolves and dogs". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.20.533465.
    10.1101/2023.03.20.533465
  4. Filipe S. Rodrigues; Monteiro, Tiago; Asma Motiwala; Joseph J. Paton. "The dorsolateral striatum encodes a temporal basis for the organization of behavior". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.13.566826.
    10.1101/2023.11.13.566826
  5. Thiago S. Gouvêa; Tiago Monteiro; Asma Motiwala; Sofia Soares; Christian K. Machens; Joseph J. Paton. "Striatal dynamics explain duration judgments". 2015. https://doi.org/10.1101/020883.
    10.1101/020883

Other

Dataset
  1. Monteiro, Tiago. Risky choice and the sequential choice model.
    10.1037/e520562012-871
  2. Monteiro, Tiago. The rational starling.
    10.1037/e598092013-034
  3. Tiago Monteiro; Filipe Rodrigues; Margarida Pexirra Tomé; Joseph Paton. Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision.
    10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.22341265.V2
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024 The Sequential Choice Model: a testable framework for proximate control of foraging decisions Bridging Diverse Perspectives on the Mechanistic Basis of Foraging
HHMI Janelia Research Campus (Washington DC, United States)
2023 The value of non-instrumental information in a teleost fish. Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Winter Meeting
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2023 Going back to 'basics': Harlow's learning set task with dogs and wolves Behaviour 2023
(Bielefeld, Germany)
2023 GoFish: A low-cost, open-source platform for closed-loop behavioural experiments on fish Behaviour 2023
(Bielefeld, Germany)
2023 Time and choice as hammers to crack cognition Online public seminar
University of Aveiro
2021 Time as a hammer to crack cognition Mini Symposium in Cognitive Sciences
University of Vienna
2019 The Duckling Lab Ornithology Research Day
Department of Biology - University of Oxford
2019 Neural mechanisms of a dynamic decision: a roadmap towards understanding cognition Champalimaud Research Internal Seminar Series
Champalimaud Foundation (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Decoupling motor from cognitive variables in decision making Champalimaud Research Internal Seminar Series
Champalimaud Foundation (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015 Probing dynamics with lateralized movements Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme Internal Seminar Series
Champalimaud Foundation (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014 (Dis)embodied cognition: the nature of time encoding in the brain? Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme Internal Seminar Series
Champalimaud Foundation (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 Starlings uphold principles of economic rationality 8th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (APPE)
APPE (Aveiro, Portugal)
2012 The sequential choice model: Predicting and post-dicting binary and trinary choices from latencies in sequential encounters Associative Learning Symposium (XVI)
(Gregynog, United Kingdom)
2011 Utility and decision making in the European starling 6th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (APPE)
APPE (Coimbra, Portugal)
2011 The rational starling 18th International Conference of Comparative Cognition (CO3)
Comparative Cognition Society (Melbourne, United States)
2011 Searching for a time to choose: new findings and old conundrums Animal Behaviour Seminar series
University of Oxford - Department of Zoology (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2011 Rational starlings? Graduate Induction Research Talks
University of Oxford - Department of Zoology (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2011 Multi-alternative choice in the European starling Animal Behaviour Seminar series
University of Oxford - Department of Zoology (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2010 Simple choice mechanisms in the European starling Graduate Induction Day Seminar series
University of Oxford - Department of Zoology (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2009 Predicting choice in unpredictable environments 21st Meeting of the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology (SEPC)
SEPC (Salamanca, Spain)
2008 Oscillatory behaviors in extinction 3rd Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (APPE)
APPE (Faro, Portugal)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/12/20 Desempenho de pombos na tarefa número-restante: mecanismo associativo ou computacional? Pigeons' performance in the number-left task: associative or computational mechanism?
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Catarina Quintão Soares (PhD)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2021/11/22 Unravelling the activity patterns of midbrain dopaminergic neurons during male sexual behaviour
(Thesis) Arguer
 Silvana Araújo (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2020/09/15 Latent variable decoding in biological and artificial agents: towards a unified approach
(Thesis) Arguer
 Pietro Vertechi (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2020/03/31 Integration and use of information in the suboptimal choice task
(Thesis) Arguer
 Valéria Diaz (PhD)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2019/03/06 Mate choice and social preference in Mus musculus females
(Thesis) Arguer
 Luis Moreira (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2017/11/27 Probabilistic decision-making in rodent foraging behaviour: contributions of distinct prefrontal cortex regions
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Beatriz Godinho (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/11/14 - Current Learning and Behavior
2022/06/22 - Current Behavior Research Methods
2022/02/03 - Current Behaviour
2021/08/10 - Current Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020/11/25 - Current Animal Cognition
2020/11/17 - Current Frontiers in Psychology
2019/11/05 - Current Behavioural Processes
2018/10/01 - Current Behavioral Ecology
2017/11/30 - Current Scientific Reports
2014/09/19 - Current Animal Behaviour

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/01/05 - Current The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Ordinary Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021 Behaviour and Physiology MSc in Biology (Master) University of Oxford Department of Biology, United Kingdom
2015 - 2019 Stereotaxic surgery in rodents (module developer) Champalimaud Course on Laboratory Animal Experimentation (Outros) Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Advanced Animal Behaviour BA in Biological Sciences (Bachelor) University of Oxford Department of Biology, United Kingdom

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/07/03 - Current PLOS One PLOS
2014/05/22 - Current Frontiers in Psychology: Comparative Psychology

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/09/28 - 2023/11/22 PhD Research Fellowship evaluation panel Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2017 Research Award in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2011 Lord Miles Science Senior Studentship
University of Oxford Pembroke College, United Kingdom
2010 Middle Common Room Research Award
University of Oxford Pembroke College, United Kingdom