Ines Mares (101A-8B9D-DB38)

Curriculum Vitae

Ines Mares

Inês Mares is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the William James Center for Research focusing on human social cognition. In her work she employs a comprehensive array of methodologies to tackle different aspects of social cognition, including, brain lesion studies, Continuous Flash Suppression, Eye-tracking, and Electroencephalography (EEG), namely using event related potentials (ERP) and machine learning analysis techniques like Multivariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA). She is currently the Principal Investigator on two projects examining neural markers of prosocial behaviour and the effects of social media on development and early adulthood, funded by the Bial Foundation and La Caixa. Previously, her main area of research was understanding how we perceive and interpret different aspects of faces, including identity, emotion and gaze direction, both in adulthood and throughout typical and atypical development. In this area of research, she was previously the co-PI on a project that used face processing as a model to understand how we form predictions about the quickly changing social world (funded by the Bial Foundation). Before that she has worked in several funded projects in different universities (namely, funded by the Leverhulme Trust grants; Welcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, and the British Association Small Grant). She has published 18 articles in peer reviewed journals in collaboration with 25 researchers from national and international universities. She has given 9 oral presentations and presented 17 posters at conferences and workshops. Keywords: Prosocial Behaviour; Face Processing; Face processing development; EEG; Gaze-Processing; Perception

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ines Mares

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 101A-8B9D-DB38

Email addresses

imares01@mail.bbk.ac.uk (Professional)
imares@ispa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

William James Center for Research - ISPA. Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012 - 2016 Concluded	Doctorate in Psychology (Doctor) Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences, United Kingdom "Processing of eye contact in the subcortical pathway - Testing the ‘fast-track modulator’ model" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

2017 - 2022	Postdoc (Research)	Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences, United Kingdom

2011 - 2013	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020 - 2021	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	University of Westminster Department of Psychology, United Kingdom

2018 - 2021	Assistant (University Teacher)	Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences, United Kingdom

2013 - 2021	Tutor (University Teacher)	Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences, United Kingdom

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/02/01 - Current	Becoming prosocial amidst social media – Neural markers of prosocial behaviour in early adulthood and the effects of social media consumption 260/24 Principal investigator	Fundação Bial Ongoing
2024/12/01 - Current	Growing Up Kind: Neural Markers of Prosocial Development and the Effects of Social Media SR24-00474 Principal investigator	Obra Social La Caixa Ongoing
2012 - 2016	Processing of eye contact in the subcortical pathway - testing the fast-track modulation model SFRH/BD/84737/2012 PhD Student Fellow Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences, United Kingdom	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/08 - 2023	Investigating the role of expertise in the predictive coding framework combining time resolved neural and behavioural evidence 129/20 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)	Fundação Bial
2017 - 2022	The Social Side of Face Perception: Insights from Atypical Development RPG - 2016 - 021 Post-doc Fellow	Leverhulme Trust Ongoing
2021 - 2021	Does Strategy Matter? Probing the functional consequences of individual differences in strategic information use during face identity judgments SG162749 Researcher	Ongoing
2011 - 2013	Reading Analysis with Neurophysiologic Signals PTDC/EIA-EIA/113660/2009 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Mares, Inês; Smith, Fraser W.; Goddard, Emily; Keighery, Lianne; Ewing, Louise; Smith, Marie L.. "Neural and behavioural signals of face categorisation prediction errors and their relationship with expertise". Paper presented in Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 2023. Mares, Inês; Smith, Fraser W.; Goddard, Emily; Keighery, Lianne; Ewing, Louise; Smith, Marie L.. "Effects of expectation on face perception and its association with expertise – Neural and behavioral evidence". Paper presented in SAW - The Seeing and Acting Workshop, 2023. Mares, Ines; Ewing, Louise; Dawel, A.; Farran, Emily K.; Smith, Marie L.. "The reward value of emotional genuineness in Williams Syndrome". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, 2019. Mares, Inês; Farran, Emily K.; Karmiloff-Smith, A.; Smith, Fraser W.; Ewing, L.; Smith, Marie L.. "Decoding the time course of face processing in Williams Syndrome". Paper presented in Society for Research in Child Development, 2019. Ewing, Louise; Mares, Inês; Farran, Emily K.; Smith, Marie L.. "Unfamiliar face processing in Williams Syndrome". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, 2019. Smith, Marie L.; Mares, Inês; Papasavva, Michael; Ducroq, E.; Smith, Fraser W.; Ewing, Louise. "Insights into face expertise- clues from early face orientation classification". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, 2019. Mares, Inês; Ewing, Louise; Farran, Emily K.; Papasavva, Michael; Smith, Fraser W.; Smith, Marie L.. "Maturation of face sensitive abilities as revealed by EEG decoding". Paper presented in Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 2019. Mares, Ines; Ewing, Louise; Farran, Emily K.; Papasavva, Michael; Smith, Fraser W.; Smith, M.L.. "Decoding the development of face processing with EEG.". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, 2018. Mares, Ines; Ewing, Louise; Farran, Emily K.; Papasavva, Michael; Smith, Fraser W.; Smith, Marie L.. "Characterizing the time course of face processing development". Paper presented in Future of Social Cognition Workshop, 2018. Mares, Ines; Ewing, Louise; Farran, Emily K.; Papasavva, Michael; Smith, Fraser W.; Smith, Marie L.. "Characterizing the neural pattern of face processing in WS: An EEG study.". Paper presented in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Annual Seminar, 2018. Farran, Emily K.; Mares, Inês; Ewing, Louise; Karmiloff-Smith, A.; Smith, Marie L.. "A cross-syndrome comparison of face processing in Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome". Paper presented in Down Syndrome Research Forum, 2018. Ewing, Louise; Mares, Inês; Dawel, A.; Smith, Marie L.; Ewing, L.. "Understanding authenticity: How do children read and respond to genuine vs posed emotional faces?". Paper presented in Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Person Perception Workshop, 2018. Mares, Ines; Dawel, A.; Richards, Anne; Smith, Marie L.; Ewing, Louise. "The value of being real: exploring how the reward value of genuine and posed emotional faces varies across development". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, 2017. Mares, Ines. "Fast and pre-attentive orienting to direct gaze and its possible reliance on low spatial frequency information". Paper presented in Social Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting, 2016. Mares, Ines. "Effect of direct gaze on spatial attention: a study in hemispatial neglect.". Paper presented in Social Cognition workshop, 2015. Mares, Ines. "Direct gaze N170 modulation is dependent of low spatial frequency information.". Paper presented in Vision Science Society, 2015. Mares, Ines. "Direct gaze facilitates saccade latency in orienting task". Paper presented in European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2014.
Journal article	Papasavva, Michael; Ewing, Louise; Mares, Inês; Smith, Marie L.. "Breaking through suppression: Face expertise selectively modulates very early awareness of high level face properties". Neuropsychologia (2025): Accepted Ewing, Louise; Althaus, Nadja; Farran, Emily K.; Papasavva, Michael; Mares, Inês; Smith, Marie L.. "Exploring the development of face recognition across childhood via logistic mixed-effects modelling of the standardized Cambridge Face Memory Test". Behavior Research Methods (2025): Accepted Mares, Inês; Smith, Fraser W.; Goddard, E. J.; Keighery, Lianne; Pappasava, Michael; Ewing, Louise; Smith, Marie L.. "Effects of expectation on face perception and its association with expertise". Scientific Reports 14 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59284-0. 10.1038/s41598-024-59284-0 Mares, I.; Ewing, L.; Papasavva, M.; Ducrocq, E.; Smith, F.W.; Smith, M.L.. "Face recognition ability is manifest in early dynamic decoding of face-orientation selectivity - Evidence from multi-variate pattern analysis of the neural response". Cortex 159 (2023): 299-312. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85146419846&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.11.004 Tautvydaite, D.; Mares, I.; Rahman, M.S.; Burra, N.; Senju, A.. "Effect of perceived eye gaze on the N170 component - A systematic review". Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 143 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85140458415&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104913 Ewing, L.; Mares, I.; Edwards, S.G.; Smith, M.L.. "Orientation Effects Support Specialist Processing of Upright Unfamiliar Faces in Children and Adults". Developmental Psychology (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85138203794&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1037/dev0001454 Farran, Emily K.; Mares, Inês; Papasavva, Michael; Smith, Fraser W.; Ewing, Louise; Smith, Marie L.. "Characterizing the neural signature of face processing in Williams syndrome via multivariate pattern analysis and event related potentials". Neuropsychologia 142 (2020): 107440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107440. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107440 Mares, I.; Ewing, L.; Farran, E.K.; Smith, F.W.; Smith, M.L.. "Developmental changes in the processing of faces as revealed by EEG decoding". NeuroImage 211 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85079673895&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116660 Rato, M.L.; Mares, I.; de Sousa, D.A.; Senju, A.; Martins, I.P.. "Direct gaze partially overcomes hemispatial neglect and captures spatial attention". Frontiers in Psychology 9 JAN (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85059987625&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02702 Burra, N.; Mares, I.; Senju, A.. "The influence of top-down modulation on the processing of direct gaze". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 10 5 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062959477&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/wcs.1500 Mares, I.; Smith, M.L.; Johnson, M.H.; Senju, A.. "Revealing the neural time-course of direct gaze processing via spatial frequency manipulation of faces". Biological Psychology 135 (2018): 76-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85044062169&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.03.001 Mares, I.; Smith, M.L.; Johnson, M.H.; Senju, A.. "Direct gaze facilitates rapid orienting to faces: Evidence from express saccades and saccadic potentials". Biological Psychology 121 (2016): 84-90. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84993990695&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.10.003 Mares, Inês; Custódio, Pedro Filipe De Jesus Pereira; Fonseca, José; Bentes, Carla; Guerreiro, Manuela; Guimarães, Nuno; Martins, Isabel Pavão. "To read or not to read : a neurophysiological study". (2015): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/46512. 10.1080/13554794.2015.1013137 Pavão Martins, I.; Maruta, C.; Freitas, V.; Mares, I.. "Executive performance in older portuguese adults with low education". Clinical Neuropsychologist 27 3 (2013): 410-425. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876676896&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/13854046.2012.748094 Marques, J.F.; Mares, I.; Martins, M.E.; Martins, I.P.. "The hierarchical organization of semantic knowledge in stroke aphasia: The role of feature sharedness and executive function". Journal of Neurolinguistics 26 5 (2013): 552-560. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878642573&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.03.005 Martins, I.P.; Mares, I.; Stilwell, P.A.. "How subjective are subjective language complaints". European Journal of Neurology 19 5 (2012): 666-671. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859827012&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03635.x Rosa, R.M.J.; Mares, I.; Maruta, C.; Martins, I.P.. "A test of famous faces - Its contribute to cognitive assessment,Contributo de um teste de faces famosas para a avaliação cognitiva". Sinapse 12 2 (2012): 23-32. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84872910018&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Martins, I.P.; Goucha, T.; Mares, I.; Antunes, A.F.. "Late onset and early onset aura: The same disorder". Journal of Headache and Pain 13 3 (2012): 243-245. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861481349&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10194-012-0419-8
Thesis / Dissertation	Mares, Ines. "Processing of eye contact in the subcortical pathway : testing the 'fast-track modulator' model". PhD, Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences, 2017. Mares, Inês Isabel Dias Simões Manita, 1988-. "The eye contact effect on naming famous faces". Master, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/6828.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024	Using MVPA in developmental research	Neurodevelopmental Disorders Annual Seminar University of East Anglia (Norwich, United Kingdom)
2024	Expectation effects on face perception – Neural and behavioural evidence of the role of expertise	14th Bial Symposium Bial (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09/08	The modulatory effect of expectation on early face perception and its association with expertise – Neural and behavioral evidence	ESCOP EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (Porto, Portugal)
2023	Investigating the role of face expertise in the predictive coding framework	Laboratório Estudos de Linguagem ( Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019	Face perception in adults with Williams Syndrome.	Williams Syndrome Researchers Meeting (Durham, United Kingdom)
2016	Privileged orienting to direct gaze and its reliance on low spatial frequency information	European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Porto, Portugal)
2016	Fast and pre-attentive orienting to direct gaze and its possible reliance on low spatial frequency information	CBCD Internal Seminar (Birkbeck College) (London, United Kingdom)
2014	Detection and processing of direct gaze: an ERP study.	Forum de Neurologia (Coimbra, Portugal)
2011	Eye movements as markers for cognitive processing in continuous reading	2nd International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion, (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Distância Interpessoal em Indivíduos com Traços de Autismo: Impacto da Alexitimia, Ansiedade Social e Expressões Faciais Emocionais Co-supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/10 - Current	Face occlusion effects in trait impressions Co-supervisor	Neuroscience and Behaviour (Master) University of Saint Joseph, Macau SAR China
2024/10 - Current	O Papel Mediador da Solidão na Relação entre Comportamentos Pró-Sociais e Depressão Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/10 - Current	Papel da teoria da mente na pró-socialidade: um estudo de traços de autismo Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/10 - Current	Adição a redes sociais e ansiedade - Efeito moderador da Pró-Socialidade Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/10 - Current	Moralidade e Pró-Socialidade - Associação a traços de autismo Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/10 - Current	Comportamentos pró-sociais e bem estar: o papel da sensibilidade à recompensa social como variável moderadora Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/10 - Current	O Papel da Prosocialidade na Redução da Solidão e dos Sintomas Depressivos em Idosos Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024 - Current	From mood to chemosignalling: the reward of being prosocial Supervisor	Psicologia (PhD) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024 - Current	Sintomas de PHDA e Prosocialidade: O Papel Mediador da Regulação Emocional Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - Current	O processamento de expressões emocionais – Associação com traços de ansiedade Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - Current	Stress Ocupacional e Sintomas de Ansiedade e Depressão: Efeito Mediador da Satisfação Laboral Co-supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - Current	Perceção de confiabilidade facial no envelhecimento – efeitos da solidão, depressão, ansiedade e stress Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Relação entre Traços de Autismo e Alexitimia e a Detecção Emocional Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Reconhecimento de expressões faciais em indivíduos com traços de autismo e alexitimia Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Emotional Processing in Alexithymia: Behavioral Evidence Supervisor	Neurociências Cognitivas e Comportamentais (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Traços de alexitimia e autismo na integração emocional auditiva e visual Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10	A Distância, a Depressão e a Ansiedade no Reconhecimento Emocional Supervisor	Psicologia Clínica (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Telling Faces Together: The Effect Of Within-Person Variability On Adults’ And Children’s Perception Of Identity Co-supervisor	Psychology (Degree) Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
2017 - 2018	Telling Faces Together: The Effect Of Within-Person Variability On Adults’ And Children’s Perception Of Identity Co-supervisor	Psychology (Degree) Birkbeck College, United Kingdom

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Open Day Psychology at ISPA	Open Day Psychology Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024 - 2025	Here I was one of the main speakers and event organiser. This seminar series was hosted by Channel Talent in partnership with the University of East Anglia (UEA) and ISPA. This interactive event was designed for pre-university students aged 16 and above, particularly those studying or interested in psychology and related fields. Delivered to schools and colleges across the UK, the seminar provided an opportunity for students to engage with leading academics and researchers, gaining insights into contemporary psychological research. Seminar	Psychology: Cutting Edge Research – Taking Part & Going Behind the Scenes Channel Talent, United Kingdom
2017/10/28 - 2017/10/28	Speaker Other	Science of Emotion- Screening Pixar's Inside Out - Birkbeck Cinema London
2017/01 - 2017/02	Live Science Residency in the Science Museum in London Exhibition

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023 - Current	Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology
2023 - Current	Experimental Psychology Society
2023 - Current	Cutting EEG

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2011 - 2014	Tesoureiro da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia do Comportamento

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023 - 2024	Dissertation Seminar (MSc in Clinical Psychology)	(Mestrado)	Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida Centro de Investigação em Educação, Portugal
2021 - 2021	Brain, Mind and Behaviour	(Bachelor)	University of Westminster Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
2020 - 2021	Biological Psychology	(Bachelor)	University of Westminster Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
2020 - 2021	Research Methods	Psychology (Bachelor)	University of Westminster Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
2020 - 2021	Research Methods 1	Psychology	University of Westminster Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
2020 - 2021	Research Methods 2	Psychology	Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
2019 - 2021	Introduction to Research Methods	Psychology	Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
2018 - 2019	Introduction to MatLab Programming for Psychological Science	Psychology (Master)	Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
2013 - 2016	Introduction to Reseach Methods	Psychology (Bachelor)	Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
2014 - 2014	Advanced Research Methods	Psychology (Bachelor)	Birkbeck College, United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2023 - 2023	Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário	Carolina Caeiro
2023 - 2023	Erasmus Internship - ISPA, Instituto Universitário	Daniele Calogero
2021 - 2022	Face expertise from development into adulthood - EEG and eyetracking evidence	Lianne Keighery
2021 - 2022	Face expertise from development into adulthood - EEG and eyetracking evidence	Emily Goddard
2019 - 2019	Typical and atypical development of face processing abilities	Sofie Kirke
2019 - 2019	Orientation effects support specialist processing of upright unfamiliar faces in children and adults	Emily Fergusson
2017 - 2018	Face perception comes of age: The influence of aging on the motivational value of faces and the relationship to face processing expertise	Susan Scrimgeour

Distinctions

Award

2019	Grindley Grant Experimental Psychology Society, United Kingdom