Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Sara Filipa Brilhante Paiva Silveira Félix Pinho
Citation names
- Félix, Sara B.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- EC19-D6EE-7009
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9645-5787
Email addresses
- sara.felix@ua.pt (Professional)
- sfelix@ispa.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- William James Center for Research, Department of Education and Psychology - University of Aveiro. Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)
- William James Center for Research, Ispa-Instituto Universitário - Rua Jardim do Tabaco 34, 1149-041, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://williamjamescr.org/people/sara-b-felix/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Psychology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2019/11/01 - 2025/04/07
Concluded
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Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
"The animacy effect in memory: Contributions to retrospective memory and novel insights in prospective memory across ages
and tasks
" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2025/02/04 - 2025/02/27
Concluded
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Microcredencial in Python Programming for Data Analysis [Microcredencial em Programação em Python para Análise de Dados] (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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19 (out of 20) |
2016/09/01 - 2018/07/26
Concluded
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Health Psychology and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation [Psicologia da Saúde e Reabilitação Neuropsicológica] (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
"Adaptative memory: The longevity and encoding independence of the animacy effect and its evidence in people with dementia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19 valores |
2013/09 - 2016
Concluded
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Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
"n.a." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 valores |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/06 - 2024/06 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
City University of London, United Kingdom | ||
2019/05/01 - 2019/10/31 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/10/16 - 2024/09/13 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal |
Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal |
Other Careers
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/01/08 - 2019/04/30 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/05/23 - Current | Researcher | William James Center for Research, Portugal |
William James Center for Research, Portugal | ||
2019/11/01 - 2025/04/07 | PhD student | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal (...) |
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2023/01 - 2024/01 | Professional Internship | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | ||
2018/12/01 - 2019 | Trainer | Federação Portuguesa de Associações de Pessoas com Diabetes, Portugal |
2017/10/13 - 2018/05/31 | Curricular Internship | Hospital de Magalhães Lemos EPE, Portugal |
2017/02/06 - 2017/07/31 | Scientific Iniciation - "The mnemonic consequences of fitness-relevant processing" (IF/00058/2012/CP0172/CT0002) | CINTESIS.UA, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal | ||
2014/09/01 - 2016/07/31 | Effective member of the Psychology degree committe Spokesperson for Psychology students | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal |
2015/06/01 - 2015/08/01 | Extra-curricular internship in Neuropsychology Cognitive training; Memory rehabilitation; Observation of neuropsychological assessment Supervisor: Dr.ª Cátia Mateus (Neuropsychologist) and Vítor Tedim | Centro Hospitalar de Entre o Douro e Vouga EPE, Portugal |
2015/02/01 - 2015/07/31 | Volunteer | Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga EPE, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/01/01 - Current | [covid] The animacy effect: Occurrence in old ages, influence in prospective memory and potential applications
COVID/BD/153450/2024
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
William James Center for Research, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2019/11/01 - Current | The animacy effect: Occurrence in old ages, influence in prospective memory and potential applications
SFRH/BD/145097/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
William James Center for Research, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2019/05/01 - 2019/10/31 | BiLUA - Reutilização de Manuais Escolares: Impacto na aprendizagem escolar, no ambiente e no comportamento sustentável
BI/DEP2019
Research Fellow
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
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2019/05 - 2019/10 | School textbooks reutilization: Impact on learning, on the environment and sustainable behaviours
x
Master Student Fellow
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Concluded
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2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 | The mnemonic consequences of fitness-relevant processing
IF/00058/2012/CP0172/CT0002
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/05 - Current | MISCOR – Fake news: Acceptance and correction of misinformation in social interaction contexts
LCF/PR/SR22/52570004
Researcher
William James Center for Research, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2018/10/01 - 2018/12/31 | Neuro-oncological complications of cancer: Longitudinal study of cognitive decline
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032358
Master Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Encyclopedia entry |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/12/06 | Adaptive memory II: Animacy and reproduction-related memory effects | Lecture given in the Advanced Topics in Psychology, Doctoral Program in Psychology
Doctoral Program in Psychology, University of Aveiro, Portugal] (Aveiro, Portugal)
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2023/11 | Adaptive prospective memory | Dr. Ute Bayen’s lab meeting
University of Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf, Germany)
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2023/09/07 | (Dis)entangling the animacy effect in prospective memory | 23rd ESCoP
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Porto, Portugal)
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2023/09/07 | Do animacy and emotion go hand-by-hand on word procedding? | 23rd ESCoP
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Porto, Portugal)
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2023/03 | Inter-age and cross-language comparison of animacy word-ratings: Data from Portuguese and British young and older adults | 17th National APPE Meeting
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/03 | Adaptive memory | Ciclo de Conferências às Quintas
Universidade Autónoma Luís de Camões (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/11 | The animacy effect in prospective memory | Dr. Matthias Kliegel’s lab meeting
University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
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2022/05 | The animacy effect in prospective memory: Evidence and contribution to the discussion of the proximate mechanisms | 13th International APPE-SEPEX Meeting
(Faro, Portugal)
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2016/05 | Falemos de… Felicidade” – A felicidade explicada pela Neurociência e a Psicologia, e a sua importância na saúde | II Jornadas de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa
(Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2024 - 2025 | Proximal mechanisms of the animacy effect
Co-supervisor
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Master's Degree in Health Psychology and Neuropsychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
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2024 - 2025 | Proximal mechanisms of the animacy effect
Co-supervisor of Matilde Machado
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Undergraduate Degree in Psycholgy (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
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2022 - 2023 | The animacy effect in memory, using ambiguous words
Co-supervisor of Sara Ramos
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Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
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2022 - 2023 | The animacy effect in memory, using ambiguous words
Co-supervisor of Grazielle Dutra
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Master's Degree in Health Psychology and Neuropsychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
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2021 - 2022 | Animacy effect
Co-supervisor of Bruna Pedrosa
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Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2024/01 - 2024/06 | Psychology Journal Club (2024/01 - 2024/06)
Other
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Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal |
2023/09/09 - 2023/09/09 | "Defying the standards of cognition: What about evolution? [Take 2]" - Symposium organized within the 23rd Conference of
the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09) (2023/09/09 - 2023/09/09)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium |
2023 - 2023/09/09 | ESCoP 2023 (Porto, Portugal) (2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium |
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07 | "Defying the standards of cognition: What about evolution? [Take 1]" - Symposium organized within the 23rd Conference of
the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09) (2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium |
2023/04/27 - 2023/04/27 | XPERiMENTA@UA 2023 - Sabias que o teu cotovelo pode ajudar a tua memória?- dissemination activity directed at high-school
students (2023/04/27 - 2023/04/27)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
2022/04/28 - 2022/04/28 | XPERiMENTA@UA 2022 - Sabias que o teu cotovelo pode ajudar a tua memória?- dissemination activity directed at high-school
students (2022/04/28 - 2022/04/28)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
2020 - 2021 | WritingLeague@UA (2020 - 2021)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/07/11 - 2023/07/11 | Academia de Verão @UA 2023 - Science communication activity for kids (2023/07/10 - 2023/07/14)
Other
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2025/03/25 - Current | EPS - Experimental Psychology Society | |
2024 - Current | OPP - Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses [Association of the Portuguese Psychologists] | Effective Member |
2022 - Current | APA - American Psychological Association | |
2022 - Current | ESCoP - European Society for Cognitive Psychology | |
2021 - Current | APS - Association for Psychological Science | |
2020 - Current | APPE - Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental [Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology] | |
2020 - Current | Psychonomic Society |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2023/09/21 - 2023/09/22 | 2º Seminário Enfermagem de Saúde Familiar / 2nd Family Health Nursing Seminar | ACeS Maia/Valongo |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/10/12 - 2024/09 | Neurosciences | Psycholgy (Licenciatura) | Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal |
2024/03 - 2024/07 | Psychophysiology | Psychology (Licenciatura) | Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal |
2024/03 - 2024/07 | Psychophysiology | Physical Education and Sport (Licenciatura) | Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal |
2024/03 - 2024/06 | Differential Psychology | Psychology (Licenciatura) |
Distinctions
Award
2022 | J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
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Other distinction
2022 | Travel grant - ESCoP
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium
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2017 | Matricula de honor - Psicología de la Salud |
2017 | Matricula de honor - Neuropsicología Clínica
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Facultad de Psicología, Spain
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2013 | Prémio Católica | Ciência e Saúde 2013 - 1º Lugar
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
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2012 | Prémio Católica | Ciência e Saúde 2012 - 4º lugar com menção honrosa
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
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