Fábio Alexandre Gomes da Silva (911D-2EE2-4273)

Curriculum Vitae

Fábio Alexandre Gomes da Silva

Fábio Silva completed his PhD in Psychology in 2024 at the University of Aveiro, funded by an individual doctoral fellowship from FCT, receiving unanimous distinction and laudation. He is currently a collaborator at the William James Center for Research and serves as an Adjunct Professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário, where he teaches Statistical Analysis. During his PhD, he focused on understanding the effects of anxiety on social scene perception and interpretation. His work has also extended to research on the behavioral-immunological system and emotion-related body odors. Fábio has published eight articles in international peer-reviewed journals, serving as first author on seven, in collaboration with 9 different researchers from national and international institutions. Keywords: Visual processing; Threat-related emotions; Emotion-related body odors; Visual biases; Social visual perception.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Fábio Alexandre Gomes da Silva

Citation names

Silva, Fábio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 911D-2EE2-4273
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6543-5222

Email addresses

fabio.silva@ispa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/10/01 - 2024/01/24 Concluded	PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento) Major in Psychology Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "How anxiety drives our predictive nature: predicting our social environment when under threat" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 Concluded	Master's in Neuropsychology (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal "Unconscious Influence over Executive Control: Conflict Adaptation through Chromatic Flicker Fusion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2015 Concluded	Bachelor's in Psychology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/05/07 - 2019/09/30	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/01 - Current	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/09 - 2017/05	Neuropsychologist Trainee (Academic Internship)	Centro Hospitalar de São João EPE, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/10/01 - 2024/01/24	How anxiety drives our predictive nature: perceiving our social environment when under threat SFRH/BD/145911/2019 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Cláudia Sousa; Joana Parada Lima; Silva, Fábio; Adriana Costa; Ana Mesquita; Ana Ramos; Ana Silva; et al. Corresponding author: Cláudia Sousa. "Desafio Cognitivos". In Viver Melhor. Desafios Cognitivos para o Adulto e para o Idoso. Portugal, 2020. Published
Conference poster	Dias, Joana; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Fábio; Pichon, Swann; Soares, Sandra C.. Corresponding author: Dias, Joana. "Vigilance in play: How actionvideogame experience improves peripheral detection in emotional settings". Paper presented in 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2023. Silva, Fábio; Ribeiro, Sérgio; Silva, Samuel; Garrido, Marta I.; Soares, Sandra C.. Corresponding author: Silva, Fábio. "Anxiety’s grip over visual perception: How are visual predictions used when under threat". Paper presented in XVII Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2023. Matlak, Mariya ; Silva, Fábio; Soares, Sandra C.; Caetano, Gina. Corresponding author: Caetano, Gina. "Behavioral and physiological responses to subliminal and supraliminal conflict priming and the relation to anxiety levels in healthy individuals". Paper presented in XVII Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências, 2021. Soares, Sandra C. ; Pinheiro, Sara; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Fábio; Gomes, Nuno; Magano, Sara; Madeira, Nuno. "Comparing social and nonsocial relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Paper presented in 27th European Congress of Psychiatry - Warsaw, 2019. Silva, Fábio; Silva, Samuel; Moura, Diana; Madeira, Nuno; Soares, Sandra C.. "How do we manage unconscious conflicting information? Exploring the requirements for the emergence of unconscious conflict". Paper presented in 27th European Congress of Psychiatry - Warsaw, 2019. Silva, Fábio; Dias, Joana; Silva, Samuel; Bem-Haja, Pedro; Silva, Carlos Fernandes; Sandra Soares. "Processamento Inconsciente e Controlo Executivo: Estudo usando Chromatic Flicker Fusion". Paper presented in 13º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2018. Silva, Fábio; Silva, Samuel; Grave, Joana. "Unconscious conflict on task performance: Contribution of the spatial and temporal properties of the distractors". Paper presented in 4º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, 2018.
Journal article	Fábio Silva; Ana C. Magalhães; Daniela Fidalgo; Nuno Gomes; Marta I. Garrido; Sandra C. Soares. "Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat". Motivation and Emotion 48 5 (2024): 714-728. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10085-y. Published • 10.1007/s11031-024-10085-y Fábio Silva; Marta I. Garrido; Sandra C. Soares. "The effect of anxiety and its interplay with social cues when perceiving aggressive behaviours". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241258209. Published • 10.1177/17470218241258209 Fábio Silva; Sérgio Ribeiro; Samuel Silva; Marta I. Garrido; Sandra C. Soares. "Exploring the use of visual predictions in social scenarios while under anticipatory threat". Scientific Reports 14 1 (2024): 10913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61682-3. Accepted • 10.1038/s41598-024-61682-3 Fábio Silva; Marta I. Garrido; Sandra C. Soares. "Improved Perception of Aggression Under (un)Related Threat of Shock". Cognitive Science 48 5 (2024): e13451. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13451. Published • 10.1111/cogs.13451 Ana C. Magalhães; Fábio Silva; Inês Lameirinha; Mariana Rodrigues; Sandra C. Soares. "Think positive! Resolving human motion ambiguity in the presence of disease threat". Cognition and Emotion 38 1 (2024): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2269831. Published • 10.1080/02699931.2023.2269831 Nuno Gomes; Silva, Fábio; Gün Semin. "The Lasting Smell of Emotions: The Effects of Re-utilizing Fear Sweat Samples". Behavior Research Methods 52 6 (2020): 2438-2451. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428. Published • 10.3758/s13428-020-01412-5 Silva, Fábio; Gomes, Nuno; Korb, Sebastian; Semin, Gün R. "Not All Emotions Are Equal: Fear Chemosignals Lower Awareness Thresholds Only for Fearful Faces". Chemical Senses 45 7 (2020): 601-608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa047. Published • 10.1093/chemse/bjaa047 Silva, Fábio; Dias, Joana; Silva, Samuel; Bem-Haja, Pedro; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Unconscious influence over executive control: Absence of conflict detection and adaptation". Consciousness and Cognition 63 (2018): 110-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.06.021. Published • 10.1016/j.concog.2018.06.021

Other

Other output

SuperDonor Generator. David Sousa, & Fábio Silva. (2019, September 23). davidnsousa/SDGen: First release of SDGen (Version v1.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3458002. 2019. Silva, Fábio. https://github.com/davidnsousa/SDGen.
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3458002

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023	Probing the influence of anxiety on the perception of social scenes	William James Center for Research
2023	The effect of anxiety and its interplay with social cues when perceiving aggressive behaviors	Research Summit University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023	The effect of anxiety and its interplay with social cues when perceiving aggressive behaviors	23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022	How anxiety drives our predictive nature: perceiving our social environment when under threat	Karoliska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden)
2021/11/01	Terapia Psicológico-Engenheiral: Intervir na Investigação em Psicologia	XXVII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Psicologia Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Psicologia (Portugal)
2021/09/15	Gomes, N., Silva, F., Semin, G. R. (2021). Reutilizing Sweat Samples: The robustness of information transfer through fear chemosignals. XXXI ECRO. Cascais, Portugal.	Reutilizing Sweat Samples: The robustness of information transfer through fear chemosignals (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021/09/13 - 2021/09/16	Volunteer co-organisor of the XXXI European Chemoreception Research Organization conference (2021/09/13 - 2021/09/16) Conference (Co-organisor)	European Chemoreception Research Organization, Portugal
2018/05 - 2018/05	UA Open Campus - Lab open day at the University of Aveiro, where public and school students can come visit the lab facilities and participate in live demonstrations and workshops related to work developed in those labs. (2018/05 - 2018/05) Exhibition (Other)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/10 - 2015/10	IV Jornadas De Psicologia - Annual conference in Psychology at the University of Aveiro (2015/10 - 2015/10) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	Journal of Neuroscience (1529-2401)
2023 - 2023	Collabra: Psychology (2474-7394)
2023 - 2023	Emotion (1528-3542)

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020 - Current	Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology - APPE	Member nº 212

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - Current	Statistical Analysis I & II	Psychology (Licenciatura)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/03	Data treatment and analysis with R (Workshop - 9 hours)	(Outros)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/06 - 2022/06	Data treatment with R (Workshop - 6 hours)	(Outros)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2022/09 - 2023/05	Program for Scientific Initiation (PIC-PSI)	Daniela Fidalgo