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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Moreno Ignazio Coco

Citation names

  • Coco, Moreno I.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B217-64FF-51CD
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2825-4200

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Albanian Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Dutch Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/01 - 2019/09/01
Concluded
 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Postgraduate Certificate)
University of East London, United Kingdom
 Distinction
2011
Concluded
 Informatics (Doctor of Philosophy)
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"Coordination of Vision and Language in Cross-Modal Referential Processing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Passed
2007
Concluded
 Linguistics (Laurea Specialistica)
Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
"Spatial Preposition Selection. A formal perceptual Optimality Theory model." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 110/110 cum laude
2004
Concluded
 Communication Science (Bachelor (1st cycle))
Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
"Can a recurrent neural network learn the difference between passive and active constructions?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 110/110 cum laude
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/07/14 - 2021/07/15 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/09/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) University of East London School of Psychology, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/12/01 - 2018/12/31 Research Affiliate (collaborator, research advisor and PhD co-supervisor) -- main colaborador Prof.sa Maria Armanda Costa Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2015/11/02 - 2018/07/13 Visiting Researcher (collaborators: Dr.sa Tania Fernandes, Dr.sa Susana Araujo, Dr.sa Joano Costa do Carmo) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal
2015/05/01 - 2018/05/01 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Independent Researcher) The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, United Kingdom
2016/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Visiting Researcher (colaborador Prof. Jose Santos Victor) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Visiting Researcher (main colaborador MD Prof.sa Isabel Pavao Martins, Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2017/05/24 - 2017/06/15 Visiting Researcher (collaborating with Dr Timothy Brady) University of California San Diego Department of Psychology, United States
2016/01/01 - 2017/04/30 Visiting Researcher (collaborating with Dr. Olaf Dimigen) Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Institut für Psychologie, Germany
2013/03/01 - 2016/12/31 Visiting Researcher (main colaborador: Prof. Frank Keller) The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, United Kingdom
2013/04/01 - 2015/04/01 FCT Post-Doctoral Fellow (supervised by Prof J. Frederico Marques) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal
2011/01/01 - 2013/02/28 Research Associate (equivalent to Post-Doc) working on an European Research Council Grant The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, United Kingdom
2012/03/11 - 2012/04/22 Visiting scholar collaborating with Dr. Rick Dale on dynamics of alignment (eye-movement and speech) during cooperative dialogue games University of California Merced Cognitive Science, United States
2007/01/10 - 2007/08/10 Order Management Office Sun Microsystems Inc, United States
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/07/16 - 2021/07/15 In search of lost memory: Experimental evidences and computational models of visual memory in healthy and neuro-degenerate ageing.
PTDC/PSI-ESP/30958/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/05/01 - 2018/04/30 Formation maintenance and use of top-down knowledge in Alzheimer Dementia (ECF-014-205)
ECF-014-205
Research Fellow
The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, United Kingdom
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2013/03/31 - 2015/04/30 Neural Correlates of Context Violation during Synchronous Visual and Linguistic Processing. (SFRH/BPD/88374/2012)
SFRH/BPD/88374/2012
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Coco, Moreno I.; Duran, Nicholas D.. "Incidental Memory for Naturalistic Scenes: Exposure, Semantics, and Encoding". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015.
  2. Coco, Moreno I.; Dale, Rick. "Quantifying the Dynamics of Interpersonal Interaction: A Primer on Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis using R". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015.
  3. Dale, Rick; Yu, Cheng; Coco, Moreno I.; Nagai, Yukie; Stefan, Kopp. "Embodied Approaches to Interpersonal Coordination: Infants, Adults, Robots, and Agents". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 35rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013.
  4. Allison, Ben; Keller, Frank; Coco, Moreno I.. "A Bayesian Model of the Effect of Object Context on Visual Attention.". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 34rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012.
  5. Coco, Moreno I.; Garraffa, Maria; Branigan, Holly P.. "Subject Relative Production in SLI Children during Syntactic Priming and Sentence Repetition". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 34rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., 2012.
  6. Coco, Moreno I.; Keller, Frank. "Temporal Dynamics of Scan Patterns in Comprehension and Production". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011.
  7. Dziemianko, Michal; Keller, Frank; Coco, Moreno I.. "Incremental Learning of Target Locations in Visual Search". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., 2011.
  8. Coco, Moreno I.; Keller, Frank. "Sentence Production in Naturalistic Scenes with Referential Ambiguity". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 32th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010.
  9. Coco, Moreno I.; Keller, Frank. "Scan Patterns in Visual Scenes predict Sentence Production". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 32th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010.
  10. Coco, Moreno I.; Keller, Frank. "The Impact of Visual Information on Reference Assignment in Sentence Production". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2009.
Journal article
  1. Pagnotta, Murillo; Laland, Kevin N.; Coco, Moreno I.. "Attentional coordination in demonstrator-observer dyads facilitates learning and predicts performance in a novel manual task". Cognition 201 (2020): 104314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104314.
    10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104314
  2. Coco, Moreno I.; Nuthmann, Antje; Dimigen, Olaf. "Fixation-related Brain Potentials during Semantic Integration of Object-Scene Information". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 32 4 (2020): 571-589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01504.
    10.1162/jocn_a_01504
  3. Cimminella, Francesco; Sala, Sergio Della; Coco, Moreno I.. "Extra-foveal Processing of Object Semantics Guides Early Overt Attention During Visual Search". Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82 2 (2019): 655-670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01906-1.
    10.3758/s13414-019-01906-1
  4. Borges, Miguel T.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Coco, Moreno I.. "Age-related differences during visual search: the role of contextual expectations and cognitive control mechanisms". Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 27 4 (2019): 489-516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2019.1632256.
    10.1080/13825585.2019.1632256
  5. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Coco, Moreno I.; Branigan, Holly P.. "When eye fixation might not reflect online ambiguity resolution in the visual-world paradigm: structural priming following multiple primes in Portuguese". Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 3 S1 (2019): 65-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00021-9.
    10.1007/s41809-019-00021-9
  6. Duarte, Nuno Ferreira; Rakovic, Mirko; Tasevski, Jovica; Coco, Moreno Ignazio; Billard, Aude; Santos-Victor, Jose. "Action Anticipation: Reading the Intentions of Humans and Robots". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3 4 (2018): 4132-4139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lra.2018.2861569.
    10.1109/lra.2018.2861569
  7. Coco, Moreno I.; Brady, Timothy; Merendino, Gabriella; Zappala', Giuseppe; Baddeley, Alan; Della Sala, Sergio. "FORGETTING IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL AGEING AS A FUNCTION OF SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE". Alzheimer's & Dementia 14 7S_Part_16 (2018): P915-P916. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.1179.
    10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.1179
  8. Garraffa, Maria; Coco, Moreno I; Branigan, Holly P. "Impaired implicit learning of syntactic structure in children with developmental language disorder: Evidence from syntactic priming". Autism & Developmental Language Impairments 3 (2018): 239694151877993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396941518779939.
    10.1177/2396941518779939
  9. Coco, Moreno I.; Dale, Rick; Keller, Frank. "Performance in a Collaborative Search Task: The Role of Feedback and Alignment". Topics in Cognitive Science 10 1 (2017): 55-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12300.
    10.1111/tops.12300
  10. Coco, Moreno I.; Badino, Leonardo; Cipresso, Pietro; Chirico, Alice; Ferrari, Elisabetta; Riva, Giuseppe; Gaggioli, Andrea; D'Ausilio, Alessandro. "Multilevel Behavioral Synchronization in a Joint Tower-Building Task". IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 9 3 (2017): 223-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcds.2016.2545739.
    10.1109/tcds.2016.2545739
  11. Coco, Moreno I.; Araujo, Susana; Petersson, Karl Magnus. "Disentangling stimulus plausibility and contextual congruency: Electro-physiological evidence for differential cognitive dynamics". Neuropsychologia 96 (2017): 150-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.008.
    10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.008
  12. Souza, Cristiane; Coco, Moreno I.; Pinho, Sandra; Filipe, Carlos N.; Carmo, Joana C.. "Contextual effects on visual short-term memory in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders". Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 32 (2016): 64-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2016.09.003.
    10.1016/j.rasd.2016.09.003
  13. Coco, Moreno I.; Duran, Nicholas D.. "When expectancies collide: Action dynamics reveal the interaction between stimulus plausibility and congruency". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 23 6 (2016): 1920-1931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1033-6.
    10.3758/s13423-016-1033-6
  14. Coco, Moreno I.; Keller, Frank; Malcolm, George L.. "Anticipation in Real-World Scenes: The Role of Visual Context and Visual Memory". Cognitive Science 40 8 (2015): 1995-2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12313.
    10.1111/cogs.12313
  15. Garraffa, Maria; Coco, Moreno I; Branigan, Holly P. "Effects of Immediate and Cumulative Syntactic Experience in Language Impairment: Evidence from Priming of Subject Relatives in Children with SLI". Language Learning and Development 11 1 (2015): 18-40. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15475441.2013.876277#.VS5qeOTstz0.
    10.1080/15475441.2013.876277
  16. Coco, Moreno I; Keller, Frank. "The interaction of visual and linguistic saliency during syntactic ambiguity resolution". The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 68 1 (2015): 46-74. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2014.936475#.VS5qGeTstz0.
    10.1080/17470218.2014.936475
  17. Coco, Moreno I; Keller, Frank. "Integrating mechanisms of visual guidance in naturalistic language production". Cognitive processing (2015): 1-20. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-014-0642-0.
    10.1007/s10339-014-0642-0
  18. Coco, Moreno I; Dale, Rick. "Cross-recurrence quantification analysis of categorical and continuous time series: an R package". Frontiers in psychology 5 (2014): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073592/.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00510
  19. Coco, Moreno I; Keller, Frank. "Classification of visual and linguistic tasks using eye-movement features". Journal of vision 14 3 (2014): 11-11. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24610954.
    10.1167/14.3.11
  20. Clarke, Alasdair DF; Coco, Moreno I; Keller, Frank. "The impact of attentional, linguistic, and visual features during object naming". Frontiers in psychology 4 (2013): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861867/.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00927
  21. Coco, M.I.; Malcolm, G.L.; Keller, F.. "The interplay of bottom-up and top-down mechanisms in visual guidance during object naming". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887581379&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/17470218.2013.844843
  22. Coco, M.I.; Keller, F.. "Scan Patterns Predict Sentence Production in the Cross-Modal Processing of Visual Scenes". Cognitive Science 36 7 (2012): 1204-1223. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84865851108&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01246.x
  23. Coco, M.I.. "The statistical challenge of scan-path analysis". Proceedings - 2009 2nd Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI '09 (2009): 372-375. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70350000399&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/HSI.2009.5091008
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/10 The processing of object semantics in extra-foveal vision. Evidence from healthy and neuro-pathological populations Evidence from healthy and neuro-pathological populations
University of Aberdeen (Ben Tatler), University of Birmingham (Ole Jenses) (United Kingdom)
2017/02/08 Aging: the role of contextual information for attention and memory. AlanBaddeley
University of York (York, United Kingdom)
2017/01/11 The role of visual attention and high-level object information on short-termvisual working memory in a change detection task. Olaf Dimigen
Humboldtz University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2017 Behavioral and neural signatures of stimulus and context expectancy during cross-modal verification.
University of East Anglia (George Malcolm) (Norwich, United Kingdom)
2016/04 Performance in Communicative Tasks: The Interaction of Feedback and Alignment.
School of Biology, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
2016/01/16 Top-down Mediation of Attentional and Memory Processes. Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University (Vera Demberg) (Saarbrucken, Germany)
2015/03/03 Coordinative Dynamics of Cognitive Mechanisms during Cross-Modal Information Processing.
Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/12 Performance in Communicative Tasks: The Interaction of Feedback and Alignment. (talk presented in different labs)
Italian Institute of Technology (Alessandro D'Ausilio), School of Biology, University of St. Andrews (Dhanraj Vishwanath) (Italy)
2013 The Role of Interactivity on Cognitive Alignment and Decision Making during Dialogue. (talk repeated in different institutions and labs)
Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (Miguel Castel Branco), Insituto de Medicina Molecular (Federico Herrera), Champalimaud Center of Unknown (Rui Costa) and MIT, Brain and Cognitive Science, (Edward Gibson); (Boston, United States)
2012/06 Coordination in the Human Brain.
Cognitive and Brain Unit (CBU-MRC) (Cambridge , United Kingdom)
2012/04 Cross-Modal Mechanisms in Situated Language Processing. (talk presented in different labs)
Champalimaud Center of Unknown (Zach Mainen), UCSD (Roger Levy), UCM (Rick Dale), UC Berkeley (Jack Gallant), Stanford (Michael C. Frank), Harvard (Jesse Snedeker) (; in Lisbon (Portugal), San Diego, Merced, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Boston, United States)
2011/08 Scan Pattern Dynamics in Comprehension and Production (Symposium on Scan-path Representation and Comparison). 16th European Conference on Eye Movement
ECEM 2011 (Marseille, , France)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current Psychonomics Society Fellow
2017 - Current British Neuropsychological Society
2017 - Current Vision Science Society
2012 - Current Cognitive Science Society

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2014 - Current Annual Conference of theCognitive Science Society
2018 - 2018 Computational Psycholinguistics COLING
2016 - 2016 International Conference on Computational Linguistics
2016 - 2016 Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics for Association of Computational Linguistics
2016 - 2016 Computational Psycholinguistics Association of Computational Linguistics
2015 - 2015 Euro-Asian-Pacific CogSci Conference
2015 - 2015 Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Association of Computational Linguistics
2015 - 2015 Language and Vision Association of Computational Linguistics
2015 - 2015 Computational Psycholinguistics track for Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2013 - 2013 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
2012 - 2012 Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing
2010 - 2011 Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - 2021/06/01 Research skills in Cognitive Neuroscience. Psychology (Bachelor) University of East London, United Kingdom
2019/09/01 - 2021/05/30 Researching with larger samples Psychology (Bachelor) University of East London, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/01/20 Interview Faculti
2012/01/01 Interview New Scientist
2012/01/01 Interview BBC Mundo

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/09/01 - 2025/09/01 Cognitive Processing
Distinctions

Title

2020 Fellow of the Psychonomics Society
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States