Nuno Daniel Franco Sobrinho (7114-0938-0975)

Curriculum Vitae

Nuno Daniel Franco Sobrinho

Nuno Daniel Franco Sobrinho completed the Integrated Master's in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Porto (2016-2021). He started the Psychology Doctoral Program at the same university (2022), where he studies Working Memory. He is a PhD fellow at the Center for Psychology at the University of Porto (FCT grant: 2023.00410.BD). His research interests are Memory, Elaboration and Cognition.

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Nuno Daniel Franco Sobrinho

Citation names

Sobrinho, Nuno D.
Nuno D. Sobrinho

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7114-0938-0975
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1377-2002
AuthenticusID: R-00M-1MZ
Google Scholar ID: F9qz2tkAAAAJ&hl
Researcher Id: GQH-7647-2022
Scopus Author Id: 58045836600

Email addresses

up201604807@up.pt (Professional)
nunosobrinho@fpce.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Center for Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 4200-135, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nuno-Sobrinho (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology
Social Sciences - Psychology - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/09 - 2027 Ongoing	Psychology (Doutoramento) Major in Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal "Assessing the Effectiveness of Elaboration for Improving Working Memory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/09 - 2021/07 Concluded	Psychology (Mestrado integrado) Major in Clinical and Health Psychology Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal "Relation between psychopathic traits and sex in an altruism task" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2013/09 - 2016/07 Concluded	Sciences and Technologies (Ensino secundário) Escola Secundária de Francisco Franco, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
2021/11/04 - 2023/06/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
	Neurocognition and Language Research Group, Portugal
2020/03 - 2021/07	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
	Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Portugal
2020/10 - 2021/06	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
	Neurocognition and Language Research Group, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/07	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
	Neurocognition and Language Research Group, Portugal
2017/10 - 2017/12	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
	Social Psychology Laboratory, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/10 - Current	Lab Manager - Mind, Body and Brain Research Group (Center for Psychology at the University of Porto)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/07 - 2019/08	Intern in Clinical Psychology	Serviço de Saúde da Região Autónoma da Madeira, Portugal
	Serviço de Saúde da Região Autónoma da Madeira, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/09/01 - 2027/08/31	Assessing the Effectiveness of Elaboration for Improving Working Memory 2023.00410.BD 10.54499/2023.00410.BD PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal Cardiff University School of Psychology, United Kingdom	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/11/04 - 2023/06/30	ClimActiC - Citizenship for Climate: Building Bridges between Citizenship and Science for Climate Adaptation NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000071 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal	Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte European Regional Development Fund Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Generating Sentences and Mental Images: Causal Evidence for Elaboration Benefits in Verbal Working Memory and Long-Term Memory". Paper presented in 19th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, Porto, 2025. http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21220.08326 Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Gerar frases ou imagens mentais: qual é o benefício da elaboração na memória de trabalho verbal? [Generating sentences or mental images: what is the benefit of elaboration in verbal working memory?]". Paper presented in 4.º SimPsi U.Norte - Simpósio Doutoral de Psicologia U.Norte, Porto, 2025. Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Searching for a Causal Impact of Elaboration on Verbal Working Memory and Long-Term Memory". Paper presented in Working Memory Symposium 2024, 2024. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19967.62880 Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "The role of elaboration on consolidating short-term and long-term visual representations". Paper presented in 3.º Simpósio Doutoral PSI.UNorte, Vila Real, 2024. Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Castro, São Luís; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Perceiving Climate change risks: What predicts feelings of personal and global vulnerability?". Paper presented in APA Division 34's 2nd Annual Online Conference, 2023. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14758.29767 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Associations incompatible with prior knowledge hinder Working Memory precision". Paper presented in 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2023), Porto, 2023. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30144.71682 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Creating stable short-term and long-term representations: Time for consolidation or elaboration?". Paper presented in Working Memory Symposium 2023, 2023. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27437.67046 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Prior knowledge about object-color associations can hinder detailed color and object memory". Paper presented in 2.º Simpósio Doutoral PSI.UNorte, Braga, Portugal, 2023. Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Prior knowledge of object-color associations can facilitate and hinder working memory for colored objects". Paper presented in 17th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, Lisbon, 2023. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21067.26408 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Castro, São Luís; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Avaliação Subjetiva dos Riscos Climáticos por Estudantes Portugueses [Subjective Assessment of Climate Risks by Portuguese Students]". Paper presented in V International Congress «Education, Environment and Development» (V CIEAD), Leiria, 2022. www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22591.79524/1 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Elaboration in Visual Working Memory: When Does Object-Color Prior Knowledge Affect Color Retention?". Paper presented in Working Memory Symposium 2022, 2022. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32658.12487 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Prior Knowledge About Object-Color Associations Can Improve Visual Working Memory and Visual Episodic Memory". Paper presented in 15th U.Porto's Youth Research Meeting (IJUP 2022), Porto, 2022. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15880.90889
Conference poster	Elisa A. Lopes; Ana G. Oliveira; Eduardo Basso; João Vieira ; Nuno D. Sobrinho; Alessandra S. Souza. "The Impact of Self-reported Color Experience on Color Memory". Paper presented in XII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [XII National Symposium on Research in Psychology], 2025. Ana Elisa Lopes; Ana Gabriela de Oliveira; Eduardo Basso; Nuno D. Sobrinho; João P. S. Vieira; Alessandra S. Souza. "The Impact of Self-reported Color Experience on Color Memory". Paper presented in Jornadas de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação - 1.ª Edição, 2024. Eduardo Basso; Ana Elisa Lopes; Ana Gabriela de Oliveira; Nuno D. Sobrinho; João P. S. Vieira; Alessandra S. Souza. "Enhancing Memory with Word Knowledge? Exploring the Relation Between Language Use, Visual Memory, and Color Labels". Paper presented in Jornadas de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação - 1.ª Edição, 2024. Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Yellow Bananas & Pink Flamingos: Prior Knowledge about Object-Colors Associations Increased the Retention of Color and Object Details". Paper presented in Object Perception, Attention, and Memory 2024 (OPAM 32), 2024. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13165.19686 Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Time for Consolidation or Strategy Implementation? Free Time and Elaboration Improve Visual Working Memory and Long-Term Memory". Paper presented in 65th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, 2024. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34975.57763 Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Does Elaboration Benefit Verbal Memory?". Paper presented in Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2024, 2024. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22556.09601 Nuno D. Sobrinho; São Luís Castro; Alessandra S. Souza. "Creating stable representations over the short- and long-term: How do strategies affect memory consolidation?". Paper presented in 18th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, 2024. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30166.25922 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Castro, São Luís; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Incongruent object-color associations hinder visual working memory". Paper presented in Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives, 2023. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17177.60007 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Castro, São Luís; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Reasoning in climate change contexts: Risk literacy and climate change risk perception matters". Paper presented in 17th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, 2023. https://www.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21276.97921/1 Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "Prior Knowledge of Color-Object Associations Does Not Improve Visual Working Memory". Paper presented in 62nd Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, 2021. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34502.96322 Belim, Filipa; Botelho, Catarina; Rocha, Hélia; Sobrinho, Nuno; Silva, Susana; Castro, São Luís. "Familiarity increases the advantage of a musical background in item memory". Paper presented in 14th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology [Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental], 2019.
Journal article	Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. "The interplay of long-term memory and working memory: When does object-color prior knowledge affect color visual working memory?". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 49 2 (2023): 236-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001071. 10.1037/xhp0001071
Online resource	Sobrinho, Nuno D.; Souza, Alessandra S.. Elaboration in Visual Working Memory. 2021. https://osf.io/a8p3g/. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/A8P3G
Report	São Luís Castro; Isabel Rocha Pinto; Isabel Macedo Pinto; Maria Adelina Barbosa Ducharne; João P. S. Vieira; Nuno D. Sobrinho; Leonor G. Cardoso; et al. 2024. Alterações climáticas: Barreiras psicológicas, riscos subjetivos e promoção da ação climática. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12759087. https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12759087
Thesis / Dissertation	"Relation between Psychopathic Traits and Sex in an Altruism Task". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/135001.

Artistic / Performance

Video recording

Sobrinho, Nuno D.. 2021. Is the YELLOW of a banana more memorable than of a tomato?. Neurocognition and Language Research Group.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/04/11	Generating Sentences and Mental Images: Causal Evidence for Elaboration Benefits in Verbal Working Memory and Long-Term Memory	19th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2025/03/27	Geração de Frases, Imaginação Mental ou Repetição: Que Estratégias Melhoram a Memória Verbal? [Sentence Generation, Mental Imagery or Rehearsal: Which Strategies Benefit Verbal Memory?]	Seminário iDEias - Development and Education Research Group (Center for Psychology at the University of Porto) University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2025/02/14	Gerar frases ou imagens mentais: qual é o benefício da elaboração na memória de trabalho verbal? [Generating sentences or mental images: what is the benefit of elaboration in verbal working memory?]	4.º SimPsi U.Norte - Simpósio Doutoral de Psicologia U.Norte Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2024/07/11	Searching for a Causal Impact of Elaboration on Verbal Working Memory and Long-Term Memory	Working Memory Symposium 2024 Working Memory Symposium (United States)
2024/06/07	The role of elaboration on consolidating short-term and long-term visual representations	3.º Simpósio Doutoral PSI.UNorte Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2023/10/20	Perceiving Climate change risks: What predicts feelings of personal and global vulnerability?	APA Division 34's 2nd Annual Online Conference APA Division 34 (United States)
2023/09/09	Associations incompatible with prior knowledge hinder Working Memory precision	23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP 2023) European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Porto, Portugal)
2023/06/21	Creating stable short-term and long-term representations: Time for consolidation or elaboration?	Working Memory Symposium 2023 Working Memory Symposium (United States)
2023/05/16	Prior knowledge about object-color associations can hinder detailed color and object memory	2.º Simpósio Doutoral PSI.UNorte University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2023/03/31	Prior knowledge of object-color associations can facilitate and hinder working memory for colored objects	17th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/02/23	How memorable is the yellow of a banana? Knowledge, congruency, and memory fidelity [Quão memorável é o amarelo de uma banana? Conhecimento, congruência e a fidelidade da memória]	Seminário iDEias - Development and Education Research Group (Center for Psychology at the University of Porto) University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/11/12	Avaliação Subjetiva dos Riscos Climáticos por Estudantes Portugueses [Subjective Assessment of Climate Risks by Portuguese Students]	V International Congress “Education, Environment and Development” (V CIEAD) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Leiria, Portugal)
2022/06/24	Elaboration in Visual Working Memory: When Does Object-Color Prior Knowledge Affect Color Retention?	Working Memory Symposium 2022 Working Memory Symposium (United States)
2022/05/05	Prior Knowledge About Object-Color Associations Can Improve Visual Working Memory and Visual Episodic Memory	15th U.Porto's Youth Research Meeting (IJUP 2022) University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2025/05 - 2025/05	XII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [XII National Symposium on Research in Psychology] (2025/05/28 - 2025/05/30) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)	Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2025/04/11 - 2025/04/12	19th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (2025/04/11 - 2025/04/12) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2025/01 - 2025/03	4.º SimPsi U.Norte - Simpósio Doutoral de Psicologia U.Norte (2025/02/14 - 2025/02/14) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2024/12 - 2024/12	Jornadas de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação - 1.ª Edição (2024/12/04) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/10/18 - 2023/10/21	e-LADDA Closing Conference / ELN Pre-Summit Event: Advances in the Study of Language Development and Literacy Learning in the Digital Age (2023/10/18 - 2023/10/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
2022/03 - 2023/09	23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology - ESCOP 2023 (2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Event participation

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023/10 - Current	European Society for Cognitive Psychology	Associate member (Number: 18331)
2023/01 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental [Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology]	Adhering Member (Number: 267)
2021/05 - Current	Psychonomic Society	Graduate Student (Member ID: 67175756)

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/12/04 - 2024/12/04	Jornadas de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação - 1.ª Edição	Porto, Portugal
2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09	23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology - ESCOP 2023	Porto, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/03/21 - 2023/03/21	Presentation of the topic "Decision-making, Risk and Problem Solving" - Psychology of Thinking and Language	Psychology (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

2023	APA's Editor's Choice articles (February 2, 2023) - "The interplay of long-term memory and working memory: When does object-color prior knowledge affect color visual working memory?" American Psychological Association, United States

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/11/21 - 2024/11/24	65th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society Meeting	65th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2024/11/21 - 2024/11/21	Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference 2024 (OPAM 32) Conference	Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference 2024 (OPAM 32)
2024/09/26 - 2024/09/28	Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2024 Workshop	Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2024 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2024/07/09 - 2024/07/12	Working Memory Symposium 2024 Symposium	Working Memory Symposium 2024 Working Memory Symposium, United States
2024/04/19 - 2024/04/20	18th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology Meeting	18th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/09/21 - 2023/09/23	Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2023 Workshop	Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives 2023 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/06/20 - 2023/06/23	Working Memory Symposium 2023 Symposium	Working Memory Symposium 2023 Working Memory Symposium, United States
2023/03/31 - 2023/04/01	17th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology Meeting	17th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology [Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental] Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal
2022/11/09 - 2022/11/12	V International Congress «Education, Environment and Development» (V CIEAD) Congress	V International Congress «Education, Environment and Development» (V CIEAD) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2022/06/21 - 2022/06/24	Working Memory Symposium 2022 Symposium	Working Memory Symposium 2022 Working Memory Symposium, United States
2022/05/04 - 2022/05/06	15th U.Porto's Youth Research Meeting (IJUP 2022) Meeting	15th U.Porto's Youth Research Meeting (IJUP 2022) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/04/06 - 2022/04/09	13th Symposium of BIAL Foundation: Behind and Beyond the Brain (Fundação BIAL) Symposium	13th Symposium of BIAL Foundation: Behind and Beyond the Brain Fundação Bial, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/02	Short course - Psychological Intervention in Personality Disorders and Deviant Behavior (Intervenção Psicológica em Perturbações da Personalidade e Comportamento Desviante) - Centro de Psicologia e Formação (CPF) Workshop	Short course - Psychological Intervention in Personality Disorders and Deviant Behavior (Intervenção Psicológica em Perturbações da Personalidade e Comportamento Desviante) - Centro de Psicologia e Formação (CPF)
2021/06/01 - 2021/06/04	Virtual Working Memory Symposium 2021 Symposium	Virtual Working Memory Symposium 2021 Working Memory Symposium, United States
2020/09/21 - 2020/09/24	Workshop - Psychology of Justice (Psicologia da Justiça) - Centro de Psicologia e Formação (CPF) Workshop	Workshop - Psychology of Justice (Psicologia da Justiça) - Centro de Psicologia e Formação (CPF)