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PhD student in psychology at the University of Aveiro in a colaboration with William James Center for Research - ISPA (FCT grant-SFRH/BD/111238/2015). Completed the master degree in Forensic psychology in 2012 and the graduated degree in Psychology, both by the University of Aveiro. Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology. Her line of investigation is emotional processing, focusing on the processing of multisensory emotional stimuli with an interest on the adaptive benefits of the human chemosignals. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Body Odor; Emotional Stimuli; Emotions; Olfaction; Chemosignal; anxiety; heart rate variability; fear; multisensory. Counts with Published 7 articles in journals. Participated in 4 event(s). Participated as Master Student Fellow in 1 project.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Fernanda Coelho da Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B916-9874-0E06
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1068-1773

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015 - 2021/09/09
Ongoing
 Psicologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Efeito dos odores corporais no processamento de estímulos visuais ambíguos de medo na ansiedade social" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010 - 2012
Concluded
 Psicologia Forense (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Efeito do tipo de aprendizagem no testemunho olfativo " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2010 - 2010
Concluded
 Técnicas Básicas de aconselhamento - projecto LUA (Linha da UA) (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2007 - 2010
Concluded
 Psicologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 14
2009 - 2009
Concluded
 Introdução às Ciências Forenses (Curso médio)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/09 - 2015/11/30 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/09/30 - 2012/07/30 Técnico estagiário de Psicologia Delegação do Sul do Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, I.P. Serviço de Clínica Forense na Unidade de Psiquiatria e Psicologia Forense , Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/10/01 - Current Effects of Body Odors on Processing of ambiguous visual fear stimuli in social anxiety
SFRH/BD/111238/2015
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2013/09/01 - 2015/08/30 Effects of Body Odors on Behavioral and Neural Processing of visual fear stimuli
PTDC/MHC-PCN/4842/2012
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Sandra C. Soares; Rocha, M. ; Susana Campos; Laura Alho; Jacqueline Ferreira; Stephanie Macedo; Carlos Silva; Valentina Parma. "Human Body Odor Identification is Affected by the Valence of the Contextual Information at Encoding and Retrieval". Paper presented in XXXIX Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, Florida, 2018.
    Published
  2. Joana Carvalho; Oleg Czop; Rocha, M. ; Pedro Nobre; Sandra C. Soares. "Gender Differences in the Processing of Romantic Versus Sexually Explicit Stimuli: Findings From an Automatic Attention Task". Paper presented in 23rd Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health, Praga, 2017.
    Published
  3. Jessica, F.; Mutic, S; Cavazzana, A; Rocha, M.; Soares, S. C.; Lundstrom, J.; Parma, V. "The Scent of the Other Woman: Impact of Female Body Odor during Intrasexual Competition". Paper presented in Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS), 38th Annual Meeting, Florida, 2016.
    Published
  4. Rocha, M.; Soares, S.; Silva, S.; Madeira, N.; Silva, C.. "The effects of alexithymia in the recognition of dynamic emotional faces". Paper presented in 24th European Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, 2016.
    Published • 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1329
  5. Ferreira, J.; Soares, S.; Bem-Haja, P.; Alho, L.; Rocha, M.; Madeira, N.; Silva, C.. "Portuguese version of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised: Preliminary data". Paper presented in 24th European Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, 2016.
    Published • 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.550
  6. Sandra C. Soares; Diana Roque; Rocha, M. ; Carlos Silva; Daniel Lundqvist. "Face Recognition as a function of different levels of emotional intensity". Paper presented in 14th European Congress of Psychology, Milan, 2015.
    Accepted
  7. Alho, Laura; Soares, Sandra C.; Ferreira, Jacqueline; Rocha, Marta; Valente, Daniela; Silva, Carlos F.; Olsson, Mats J.. "Nosewitness identification: Lineup test performance following emotional (crime) and neutral videos". Paper presented in XXIVth International Conference of European Chemoreception Research Organization, Dijon, 2015.
    Published
  8. Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta; Silva, Carlos F.; Daniel Lundqvist. "Dynamic face perception: Effects of emotion and time course". Paper presented in X Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Faro, 2015.
    Published
  9. Ferreira, Jacqueline; Rocha, M.; Pinto, Elisa; Alho, Laura; Soares, Sandra C.; Silva, Carlos F.; Olsson, Mats J.; Rocha, Marta. "Memória olfativa: a influência do intervalo de retenção e do tipo de aprendizagem". Paper presented in IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia e 2º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Lisboa, 2014.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Rocha, M. ; Joana Ribeiro; Sandra Pinheiro; Ana Raquel Oliveira; Valentina Parma; Gün R. Semin; Sandra C. Soares. "The effects of alexithymia in the experience of emotional situations". Paper presented in 12.º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2017.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.34912.48645
  2. Rocha, M. ; Sandra Pinheiro; Ana Raquel Oliveira; Valentina Parma; Gün R. Semin; Sandra C. Soares; Joana Ribeiro. "Film clips as emotional inducers in the laboratory". Paper presented in 12.º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2017.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.33234.76486
  3. Filipa Barros; Sandra C. Soares; Rocha, M. ; Carlos Silva; Daniel Lundqvist. "Deteção de expressões emocionais em função da intensidade emocional". Paper presented in 11º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimenta, 2016.
  4. Rocha, Marta; Soares, Sandra C.; Alho, Laura; Campos, Susana; Silva, Carlos F.. "The effects of emotional context in body odor memory". Paper presented in 14th European Congress of Psychology, 2015.
  5. Amoroso, Tatiana; Santos, Isabel; Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta; Silva, Carlos F.. "A multisensory approach to the study of fear perception". Paper presented in 27th Annual Convention dor the Association for Psychological Science, 2015.
  6. Amoroso, Tatiana; Santos, Isabel; Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta; Silva, Carlos F.. "Psychophysiological correlates of fear perception: A multisensory approach". Paper presented in 27th APS Annual Convention, 2015.
  7. Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta; Rocha, Marta Fernanda Coelho; Silva, Carlos F.; Daniel Lundqvist. "Decomposing the Anger Superiority Effect: Higher accuracy for angry faces is only observed in faces with low emotional intensity". Paper presented in X Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2015.
  8. Neiva, Tiago; Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta; Rodrigues, Paulo; Silva, Carlos F.. "Enviesamento atencional na ansiedade social: o papel da carga percetiva". Paper presented in 9º Encontro Nacional de Psicologia Experimental, 2014.
  9. Fontoura, Filipa; Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta; Silva, Carla; Silva, Carlos F.. "A influência dos estereótipos na perceção olfativa". Paper presented in 9º Encontro Nacional de Psicologia Experimental, 2014.
  10. Rocha, Marta; Pinto, Elisa; Soares, Sandra C.; Olsson, Mats J.; Alho, Laura; Ferreira, Jacqueline. "Efeito do intervalo de retenção e do tipo de aprendizagem no testemunho olfativo". Paper presented in 8º Encontro Nacional de Psicologia Experimental, 2013.
  11. Silva, Carla; Soares, Sandra C.; Santos, I.M; Correia, T; Ferreira, P; Sousa, P; Tomé, C; et al. "Comunicação social química: Avaliação da etnia através dos odores corporais". Paper presented in VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, 2013.
  12. Soares, Sandra C.; Ferreira, Patrícia; Ferreira, Jacqueline; Nobre, Pedro; Carvalho, Joana; Alho, Laura; Rocha, Marta; Olsson, Mats J.. "The influence of body odors on sexual response in humans". Paper presented in XVI International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Rocha, Marta; Grave, Joana; Korb, Sebastian; Parma, Valentina; Semin, Gün R; Soares, Sandra C. "Emotional self-body odors do not influence the access to visual awareness by emotional faces". Chemical Senses 49 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjad034.
    10.1093/chemse/bjad034
  2. Mutic, Smiljana; Freiherr, Jessica; Cavazzana, Annachiara; Rocha, Marta; Soares, Sandra C.; Parma, Valentina. "The scent of the other women: Body odor-induced behavioral and physiological effects on face categorization". Physiology & Behavior 210 (2019): 112562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112562.
    10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112562
  3. Parma, Valentina; Redolfi, Nelly; Alho, Laura; Rocha, Marta; Ferreira, Jacqueline; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Ethnic influences on the perceptual properties of human chemosignals". Physiology & Behavior 210 (2019): 112544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.05.005.
    Published • 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.05.005
  4. Rocha, Marta; Parma, Valentina; Lundström, Johan N.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Anxiety Body Odors as Context for Dynamic Faces: Categorization and Psychophysiological Biases". Perception 47 10-11 (2018): 1054-1069. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006618797227.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.1177/0301006618797227
  5. Carvalho, Joana; Czop, Oleg; Rocha, Marta; Nobre, Pedro; Soares, Sandra. "Gender Differences in the Automatic Attention to Romantic Vs Sexually Explicit Stimuli". The Journal of Sexual Medicine 15 8 (2018): 1083-1092. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.06.008.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.06.008
  6. Parma, Valentina; Macedo, Stephanie; Rocha, Marta; Alho, Laura; Ferreira, Jacqueline; Soares, Sandra C.. "The Effects of Emotional Visual Context on the Encoding and Retrieval of Body Odor Information". Perception 47 4 (2018): 451-465. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006618756811.
    10.1177/0301006618756811
  7. Alho, Laura; Soares, Sandra C.; Ferreira, Jacqueline; Rocha, Marta Fernanda Coelho; Silva, Carlos F.; Olsson, Mats J.. "Nosewitness Identification: Effects of Negative Emotion". PLOS ONE 10 1 (2015): e0116706-e0116706.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0116706
  8. Soares, Sandra C.; Rocha, Marta Fernanda Coelho; Neiva, Tiago; Rodrigues, Paulo; Silva, Carlos F.. "Social anxiety under load: the effects of perceptual load in processing emotional faces". Frontiers in Psychology 6 479 (2015): 1-6.
    Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00479
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rocha, M.. "Efeito do tipo de aprendizagem no testemunho olfativo". Master, Universidade de Aveiro, 2012.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/07/05 Effects of self chemosignals on the recognition of emotional faces Research Summit 2021 - "Arte, Ciência e Inovação em tempos de crise”
(aveiro, Portugal)
2021/04/05 Access to visual awareness is influenced by facial expression but not by self chemosignals Interdisciplinary Erlangen Colloquium on Body Odours
2020/07/08 Effects of body odors on the processing of emotional stimuli Research Summit 2020
(aveiro, Portugal)
2015/07/07 The Effects of Alexithymia in the Recognition of Faces With Different Levels of Emotional Intensity The 14th European Congress of Psychology
(Italy, Italy)
2014/11/12 Influência do contexto na memória de odores corporais Under Investigation: Psicologia@UA
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2014 Influência do contexto na memória de odores corporais IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia e 2º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014 Efeitos do tamanho do alinhamento no testemunho olfativo IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia e 2º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014 Do laboratório para a intervenção: Abordagem multimodal no estudo das emoções IX Congresso Iberoamericano de Psicologia e 2º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2016/05/05 - Current Guided tours guide in study visits to Psychology laboratories
Other
 Guided tours guide in study visits to Psychology laboratories
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/03/22 - 2018/03/24 In this event the university of Aveiro opens its doors to the community in general. The Ua Open Labs was specially designed for high school students and offers a variety of activities, such as lectures and experimental activities related to emotional processing.
Other
 Ua Open Campus - Ua Open Labs
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/05/10 - 2017/05/12 In this event the university of Aveiro opens its doors to the community in general. The Ua Open Labs was specially designed for high school students and offers a variety of activities, such as lectures and experimental activities in the labs.
Other
 Ua Open Campus
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/11/21 - 2016/11/25 The community in general were invited to meet the researchers who daily develop their activity at the University of Aveiro.
Other
 Semana Aberta da Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade de Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2014/09 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental
2014/07 - Current Association for Psychological Science

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018/05/08 - 2018/05/08 Processamento de estímulos olfativos, odor corporal e relação com o sistema imunitário Psiconeuroimunologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2016/12/01 - 2018/03/20 Mentor/tutor of undergraduate and master psychology students with an interest for research Group of Psychology students