Ana Catarina Quintão Soares (6D1A-C89E-0EB9)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Catarina Quintão Soares

I obtained my masters’ degree in Psychology from University of Minho (Portugal) in 2016. My master’s thesis was conducted at the Animal Learning and Behavior Laboratory and focused on disentangling which cue (reinforcement contingencies, time or number) pigeons used to solve a task. In parallel, I completed a curricular internship in Organizational Psychology that focused on improving work safety. In 2024, I obtained my doctoral degree in Basic Psychology from University of Minho. I studied the mechanisms underlying numerosity discrimination in pigeon with a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (PD/BD/128458/2017). As part of my doctoral curriculum, I received training in different data analysis tools (e.g., VBA, R, Psychopy) and attended courses to enhance my mathematical skills (e.g., Calculus, Probability Theory, Linear Algebra). I completed a laboratory rotation in the research group in psycholinguistics where I was integrated in a project focusing on the processing of grammatical gender in bilinguals. Over the last few years, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Research Center in Psychology at University of Minho.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Catarina Quintão Soares

Citation names

Soares, Catarina
Soares, C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 6D1A-C89E-0EB9
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5680-7362
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=josO1zEAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Email addresses

csoares@psi.uminho.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

(+351) 918553629 (Personal)

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catarina-Soares-6 (Scholar)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catarinaqsoares/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025 - 2025 Concluded	Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas (Outros) Instituto CRIAP, Portugal Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2024/12/20 Concluded	Psicologia Básica (Doutoramento) Major in Psicologia Básica Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal "Pigeons' Performance in the Number-Left Task: Associative or Computational Mechanism?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good (maximum classification by unanimity)
2011 - 2016 Concluded	Psicologia (Mestrado integrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Regulação temporal do comportamento na tarefa de inversão a meio da sessão (18)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/07/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2024/09/08 - 2025/01/08	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
2021/11/10 - 2023/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/06/01 - 2021/10/31	Pigeons’ Performance in the Number-Left Task: Associative or Computational Mechanism? 10.54499/COVID/BD/152116/2021 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Minho, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017/02/01 - 2021/05/31	Pigeons’ Performance in the Number-Left Task: Associative or Computational Mechanism? PD/BD/128458/2017 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2024/09/09 - 2025/01/08	Financiamento BASE Plurianual UIDB/01662/2020 Research Fellow Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2021/11/10 - 2023/12/31	Financiamento Plurianual às Unidades de I&D UIDB/01662/2020 Research Fellow Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Soares, Catarina; Keating, José; Silva, Isabel. "Contributos da Psicologia na Prevenção de Acidentes de Trabalho". In Psicologia Aplicada à Segurança e Saúde Ocupacional, 43-70. Portugal: Coisas de Ler, 2021. Published
Conference poster	Soares, Catarina; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, Armando. Corresponding author: Soares, Catarina. "Numerosity discrimination: Can pigeons report uncertainty?". Paper presented in 42th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior (Chicago, Illinois, USA), 2019. Dos Santos, Cristina; Soares, Catarina; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, Armando. Corresponding author: Dos Santos, Cristina. "The effect of payoff on time perception in the midsession reversal task". Paper presented in 41th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, 2018. Dos Santos, Cristina; Soares, Catarina; Machado, Armando; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Delayed Reinforcement Impairs Learning in the Midsession Reversal Task". Paper presented in Ninth International Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, 2017. Dos Santos, Cristina; Soares, Catarina; Machado, Armando; Vasconcelos, Marco. Corresponding author: Dos Santos, Cristina. "Performance in the midsession reversal task according to the probabilities of reinforcement". Paper presented in 12º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Porto, Portugal, 2017. Soares, Catarina; Dos Santos, Cristina; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, Armando. "Pigeons’ performance on the midsession reversal task in a long operant box". Paper presented in XXI Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, UK, 2017. Dos Santos, Cristina; Soares, Catarina; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, Armando. Corresponding author: Dos Santos, Cristina. "Performance in a midsession reversal task with different probabilities of reinforcement". Paper presented in XXI Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, UK, 2017. Santos, Cristina; Soares, C.; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, A.. Corresponding author: Santos, Cristina. "Reinforcement bias performance in the midsession reversal task". Paper presented in 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, 2017. Soares, Catarina; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, Armando. "Midsession reversal task in pigeons: ITI manipulation and error types". Paper presented in 11º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Lisboa, Portugal, 2016. Soares, C.; Fortes, I.; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, A.. Corresponding author: Fortes, I.. "Optimization and decision-making: A test with a virtual slotmachine". Paper presented in 10º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Faro, Portugal, 2015.
Journal article	Catarina Soares; Armando Machado; Marco Vasconcelos. "Pigeons' performance in the number-left task: Associative or computational mechanism?". Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (2025): https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70035. 10.1002/jeab.70035 Soares, Catarina; Santos, Mairiele; Pinto, Carlos. "Is choice bias in delayed matching a consequence of inter-trial interval effects?". Behavioural Processes 226 (2025): 105153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105153. Published • 10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105153 Catarina Soares; Carlos Pinto; Armando Machado. "Giving time a chance in the midsession reversal task". Learning & Behavior (2023): https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00606-z. 10.3758/s13420-023-00606-z Catarina Soares; Ana Sousa; Carlos Pinto. "Externalizing forgetting: Delay testing in a long operant chamber.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 49 2 (2023): 96-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000353. 10.1037/xan0000353 Catarina Soares; Cristina Santos; Armando Machado; Marco Vasconcelos. "Step changes in the intertrial interval in the midsession reversal task: Predicting pigeons' performance with the learning-to-time model". Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (2020): https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.632. 10.1002/jeab.632 Santos, Cristina; Soares, Catarina; Vasconcelos, Marco; Machado, Armando. Corresponding author: Santos, Cristina. "The effect of reinforcement probability on time discrimination in the midsession reversal task". Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 111 3 (2019): 371-386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jeab.513. 10.1002/jeab.513 Carvalho, Marilia Pinheiro de; Santos, Cristina Dos; Soares, Catarina; Machado, Armando. Corresponding author: Carvalho, Marilia Pinheiro de. "Meliorating the Suboptimal-Choice Argument". Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 14 (2019): 25-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2019.140003. 10.3819/ccbr.2019.140003

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/11/12	Searching for the Mechanisms Underlying Pigeons’ Performance in a Numerosity Discrimination Task	Twelfth International Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2025/10/04	Pigeons' learning strategies in the midsession reversal task	19º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Porto, Portugal)
2025/04/10	Pigeons' performance in a numerosity discrimination task: Investigating the underlying mechanisms	19º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Porto, Portugal)
2024	Decision making in pigeons: The interplay of certainty and effort	18º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/09	Giving time a chance in the midsession reversal task	XXXIII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology (SEPC) Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology (Granada, Spain)
2023/03	Externalizing pigeons' temporal judgments	17º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/05	Temporal control of pigeons' behavior in the Midsession Reversal task	First Joint International APPE-SEPEX Meeting APPE - SEPEX (Faro, Portugal)
2022/04	The number sense of animals: Associative or computational mechanism?	29th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition Comparative Cognition Society (Online, United States)
2021/11	Contributions from Psychology to the prevention of work accidents	Ao Encontro da Cognição Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2021/04	The number sense of animals: Associative or computational mechanism?	15º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Online, Portugal)
2018	The importance of timing in choice	Seminar Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) (Vila Real, Portugal)
2017/12	Studies on the interaction between time and reinforcement: The midsession reversal task revisited	UnderInvestigation: Psychology & Education@UA Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2014/09/10 - 2014/09/12	First joint Portuguese-Spanish Meeting on Comparative Psychology with the XXVI Meeting of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology (SEPC) (2014/09/10 - 2014/09/12) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/05/15 - 2024/05/28	Curso organizado pelo Colégio Doutoral da Universidade do Minho. Conteúdos: Conhecer a audiência; Organização; Ajudas visuais; Linguagem não-verbal; Perguntas e respostas; Gerir os imprevistos. Workshop	Comunicação de Ciência Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/02/14 - 2023/02/15	Gestão e partilha de dados de investigação Requisitos de entidades financiadoras Competências básicas de elaboração de planos de gestão de dados Other	Escola de Inverno de Dados Abertos Universidade do Minho Serviço de Documentação e Bibliotecas, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025/07/07	Revisão da evidência empírica sobre a inferência transitiva social em animais não humanos (Thesis) Main arguer	Ismael Alejandro González Sánchez (Master) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2025 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental	Membro Efectivo
2025 - Current	Association for Behavior Analysis International	Student Transitional Member
2020 - 2024	Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (APPE)	Membro Aderente

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2019/12	Destaque - Publicações de Alunos	Newsletter Departamento de Psicologia Básica

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2025 - Current	PlosOne (1932-6203)
2025 - Current	Animal Cognition (1435-9456)	Springer

Distinctions

Award

2025	Prémio APPE 2025 Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology [Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental], Portugal

Other distinction

2017	PhD Studentship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal