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[EN] Sara B. Félix holds an European PhD in Psychology, from the University of Aveiro (host institution abroad: City, University of London; 2025). Félix studies Adaptive Memory, especially with young and elderly populations, having published in Q1/Q2 international journals and book chapters. She has received 4 awards and/or honors (e.g., J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award - Psychonomic Society). Her main research interests are related to (Neuro)Psychology, namely: Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Memory, Evolutionary Psychology, Social Psychology, and Aging. ----------------------------------------------------- [PT] Sara B. Félix concluiu o Doutoramento Europeu na Universidade de Aveiro (instituição de acolhimento estrangeira: City, University of London; 2025). Félix estuda Memória Adaptativa, especialmente junto de população jovem e idosa, tendo publicado em revistas internacionais Q1/Q2, e capítulos de livros. Recebeu 4 prémios e/ou menções honrosas (e.g., J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award - Psychonomic Society). Os seus interesses de investigação relacionam-se com (Neuro)Psicologia, nomeadamente: Psicologia Experimental e Cognitiva, Memória, Psicologia Evolutiva, Psicologia Social, e Envelhecimento.
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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

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
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
2019/11/01 - 2025/04/07
Concluded
 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)
2025/02/04 - 2025/02/27
Concluded
 Microcredencial in Python Programming for Data Analysis [Microcredencial em Programação em Python para Análise de Dados] (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 19 (out of 20)
2016/09/01 - 2018/07/26
Concluded
 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)
 19 valores
2013/09 - 2016
Concluded
 Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
"n.a." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
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
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
2019/01/08 - 2019/04/30 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
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
2024/01/01 - Current [covid] The animacy effect: Occurrence in old ages, influence in prospective memory and potential applications
COVID/BD/153450/2024
UIDB/04810/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

William James Center for Research, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/11/01 - Current The animacy effect: Occurrence in old ages, influence in prospective memory and potential applications
SFRH/BD/145097/2019
UIDB/04810/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

William James Center for Research, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
2019/05 - 2019/10 School textbooks reutilization: Impact on learning, on the environment and sustainable behaviours
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Master Student Fellow
Concluded
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
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/05 - 2025/07/31 MISCOR – Fake news: Acceptance and correction of misinformation in social interaction contexts
LCF/PR/SR22/52570004
Researcher
William James Center for Research, Portugal
Ongoing
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
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Félix, Sara B.. "Adaptive memory". In Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 59-79. Elsevier, 2025.
    Published • 10.1016/b978-0-443-15754-7.00016-x
  2. Félix, Sara B.; Garrido, Margarida V.; Saraiva, Magda. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "Introdução ao Mendeley: Gestão de referências bibliográficas e combate ao plágio [An introduction to Mendeley: Management of bibliographic references and combating plagiarism]". In Caderno de laboratório, 56-74. Portugal: LAPSO - Laboratório de Psicologia, Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2025.
    Published
  3. "Animacy". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_2069-1
Conference abstract
  1. Dutra, Grazielle C.; Machado, Matilde; Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Research Summit 2025: Book of abstracts (DOI: https://doi.org/10.48528/5rnm-k51?)". Paper presented in Research Summit 2025, Aveiro, 2025.
    Published
  2. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The animacy effect in older adults: Evidence from the memory for the past and for the future (DOI: https://doi.org/10.48528/5rnm-k519)". Paper presented in Research Summit 2024, Aveiro, 2024.
    Published
  3. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "(Dis)Entangling the animacy effect in prospective memory". Paper presented in 23rd ESCoP, Porto, 2023.
    Published
  4. Ferré Pilar; COMESAÑA, MONTSERRAT; Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Do animacy and emotions go hand-by-hand on word processing?". Paper presented in 23rd ESCoP, Porto, 2023.
  5. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Inter-age and cross-language comparison of animacy word-ratings: Data from Portuguese and British young and older adults". Paper presented in 17th National APPE Meeting, Lisbon, 2023.
    Published
  6. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Further examinations of the animacy effects: Age-specific word-ratings and memory performance in older adults". Paper presented in Research Summit 2023, Aveiro, 2023.
    Published
  7. Dutra, Grazielle; Ramos, Sara A.; Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "A double-sided coin: Exploring the animacy effect with ambiguous words". Paper presented in Research Summit 2023, Aveiro, 2023.
    Published
  8. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.. "Open Science: Developing and sharing word-related research tools". Paper presented in Research Summit 2022, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published
  9. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The animacy effect in prospective memory: Evidence and contribution to the discussion of the proximate mechanisms". Paper presented in 13th International APPE-SEPEX Meeting, Faro, 2022.
    Published
  10. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.. "The mnemonic effect for animates: Evidence from prospective memory". Paper presented in Research Summit 2021, Aveiro, 2021.
    Published
  11. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.. "Animacy Effect: Occurrence in old ages, influence in prospective memory and potential applications". Paper presented in Research Summit 2020, Aveiro, 2020.
    Published
  12. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.. "Animacy Effect: Occurrence in old ages, influence in prospective memory and potential applications". Paper presented in Research Summit 2020, Aveiro, 2020.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Garrido, Margarida Vaz; Souza, Cristiane; Félix, Sara B.; Silva, Rita R.; Oleksandr V. Horchak; Saraiva, Magda. "Verdade à segunda vista: Normas de frases triviais e efeito da semelhança nos julgamentos de veracidade e confiança [Truth at second Glance: Norms of Trivial Sentences and the Effect of Similarity on Judgments of Veracity and Confidence]". Paper presented in Ciência 2025, 2025.
  2. Saraiva, Magda; Félix, Sara B.; Garrido, Margarida Vaz. "Judging truth together: Confidence and memory capacity in social misinformation dynamics". Paper presented in Ciência 2025, 2025.
  3. Garrido, Margarida V.; Félix, Sara B.; Saraiva, Magda. "Sounds (un)familiar? How repetitions and contradictions shape online sharing intentions". Paper presented in Ciência 2025, 2025.
  4. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Examining the animacy effect in prospective memory: A tentative comparison of focal and non-focal tasks". Paper presented in 19th National APPE Meeting, 2025.
  5. Souza, Cristiane; Saraiva, Magda; Félix, Sara B.; Oleksandr V. Horchak; Silva, Rita R.; Garrido, Margarida V.. "“I know it’s true!”: The effect of familiarity in different input modalities of repetition-based corrections of false statements". Paper presented in 19th National APPE Meeting, 2025.
  6. Félix, Sara B.; Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Ageless memory: The animacy effect in older adults in retrospective and prospective memory tasks". Paper presented in 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2024.
  7. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Decoding the animacy effect in recognition memory: Different encoding tasks". Paper presented in 18th National APPE Meeting, 2024.
  8. Dutra, Grazielle; Ramos, Sara A; Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Am I an animate, or an inanimate? The animacy effect in memory, using ambiguous words". Paper presented in 18th National APPE Meeting, 2024.
  9. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Félix, Sara B.. "How animate is liver?: Differences and commonalities on animacy ratings among Portuguese, American and British participants". Paper presented in 23rd ESCoP, 2023.
  10. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "Animates help you remember what to do! Evidence from a nonfocal prospective memory task". Paper presented in 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2022.
  11. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The attentional mechanisms underlying the animacy effect: Evidence from a focal prospective memory task". Paper presented in 22nd ESCoP, 2022.
  12. Félix, Sara B.; Botsas, A.; Poirier, Marie; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "How do older adults see animacy in words? A norming study with a British sample". Paper presented in 2021 Virtual Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2021.
  13. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Do animates help to implement future tasks? The effect of animacy in prospective memory". Paper presented in 2021 Association for Psychological Science Virtual Convention, 2021.
  14. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "How do elderly see animacy in words? A norming study with a Portuguese sample". Paper presented in XV Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, 2021.
  15. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Adaptive memory: Animates help to improve prospective memory". Paper presented in 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2021.
  16. Félix, Sara B.; Botsas, Andronikos; Poirier, Marie; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "How do older adults see animacy in words? A norming study with a British sample". Paper presented in SARMACv 2021, 2021.
  17. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "Do animates help to implement future intentions? The effect of animacy in prospective memory". Paper presented in 2021 APS Virtual Convention, 2021.
  18. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "How do elderlies see animacy in words? A norming study with a Portuguese sample". Paper presented in 15th National APPE Meeting, 2021.
  19. Félix, Sara B.; Correia, Luciana; Monteiro, Soraia; Pinheiro, Sara; Melhorado, Mariana; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "Free association norms for differently-valenced emotion, concrete and abstract Portuguese words". Paper presented in 15th National APPE Meeting, 2021.
  20. Félix, Sara B.; Óscar Ribeiro; Humbertina Maia. "Personalized cognitive stimulation: A case report on diagnosis acceptance and therapeutic engagement". Paper presented in Uma Visão Holística sobre as Demências, 2018.
  21. Félix, Sara B.; Josefa N. S. Pandeirada. "Is the mnemonic animacy effect preserved in people with dementia?". Paper presented in VIII Fórum Boas Práticas em Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, 2018.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Félix, Sara B.; Nairne, James S.. "Animacy". In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, edited by Vonk, J. Springer, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_2069.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Sara B. Félix; Marie Poirier; Josefa N.S. Pandeirada. "Exploring the animacy effect in focal prospective memory tasks: When animates don’t stand out". Journal of Memory and Language (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104673.
    10.1016/j.jml.2025.104673
  2. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The animacy (bias) effect in recognition: Testing the influence of intentionality of learning and retrieval quality". Memory 32 7 (2024): 889-900. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2362755.
    Published • 10.1080/09658211.2024.2362755
  3. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The breadth of animacy in memory: New evidence from prospective memory". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 31 3 (2024): 1323-1334. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02406-y.
    Published • 10.3758/s13423-023-02406-y
  4. Félix, Sara B.; Poirier, Marie; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. Corresponding author: Félix, Sara B.. "Is “earth” an animate thing? Cross-language and inter-age analyses of animacy word ratings in European Portuguese and British English young and older adults". PLOS ONE 18 8 (2023): e0289755. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289755.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0289755
  5. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Norming studies of lexicosemantic and affective characteristics of European Portuguese words: A literature review". Análise Psicológica 39 1 (2021): 107-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.1823.
    Published • 10.14417/ap.1823
  6. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Norming studies for lexicosemantic and affective characteristics of European Portuguese words: A literature review". Análise Psicológica (2021):
    Accepted
  7. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Animacy norms for 224 European Portuguese concrete words". Análise Psicológica 38 2 (2020): 257-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.1690.
    Published • 10.14417/ap.1690
  8. Félix, Sara B.; Josefa N. S. Pandeirada; James S. Nairne. "Adaptive memory: Longevity and learning intentionality of the animacy effect". Research@UA 10 (2020): 72-72. https://www.ua.pt/file/61865.
  9. Félix, Sara B.; Ribeiro, Oscar; Maia, Humbertina. "Personalized cognitive stimulation through personhood: A case report on dementia diagnosis acceptance and therapeutic engagement". Clinical Gerontologist 43 2 (2019): 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/07317115.2019.1648349.
    Published • 10.1080/07317115.2019.1648349
  10. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Adaptive memory: longevity and learning intentionality of the animacy effect". Journal of Cognitive Psychology 31 3 (2019): 251-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2019.1586716.
    Published • 10.1080/20445911.2019.1586716
  11. Félix, Sara B.. "Long term cognitive monitoring in a community setting: A real-world implementation study". RISTI - Revista Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao (2019):
    Published
  12. Félix, Sara B.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Animacy norms for 224 European Portuguese concrete words". Análise Psicológica (2019):
    In press
  13. Félix, Sara B.; Óscar Ribeiro; Humbertina Maia. "Personalized cognitive stimulation through personhood: A case report on dementia diagnosis acceptance and therapeutic engagement". (2019):
    Submitted
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "The animacy effect in memory: Contributions to retrospectiva memory and nível insights to prospective memory across ages and tasks [O efeito da animacidade na memória: contribuições para as memórias retrospetiva e prospetiva em várias idades e tarefas]". PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 2025.
  2. Félix, Sara B.. "Adaptative memory: The longevity and encoding independence of the animacy effect and its evidence in people with dementia". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, 2018. https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/26191.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/09/04 Ageless memory? The animacy effect in prospective memory in older adults 24th ESCoP conference
ESCoP (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2025/08/07 Adaptive memory in social contexts: Opportunities and challenges for exploring the animacy effect in collaborative memory Talk in workshop organized with Dr. Suparna Rajaram
William James Center for Research, University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2025/05/30 Entre o erro e a verdade: Normalização de frases triviais e suas correções com base na semelhança [Between error and truth: Norms for trivial sentences and their corrections based on similarity] XII SNIP
APP (Porto, Portugal)
2025/05/29 Memória e contaminação: O papel da suscetibilidade a diferentes tipos de contágio [Memory and contaminantion: The role of susceptibility to different types of contagion] XII SNIP
APP (Porto, Portugal)
2025/05/29 Influência social na aceitação da desinformação: O papel da confiança e da capacidade mnésica dos outros [Social influence in the acceptance of misinformation: The role of other’s confidence and memory capacity] XII SNIP
APP (Porto, Portugal)
2025/04/11 Correcting misinformation: The role of perceived truth in sharing contradictions 19th National APPE Meeting
APPE (Porto, Portugal)
2025/04/11 How suggestive are we in a second language? 19th National APPE Meeting
APPE (Porto, Portugal)
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)
2023/11 Adaptive prospective memory Dr. Ute Bayen’s lab meeting
University of Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf, Germany)
2023/09/07 (Dis)entangling the animacy effect in prospective memory 23rd ESCoP
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09/07 Do animacy and emotion go hand-by-hand on word procedding? 23rd ESCoP
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Porto, Portugal)
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)
2023/03 Adaptive memory Ciclo de Conferências às Quintas
Universidade Autónoma Luís de Camões (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/01/25 The anzmacy effect in prospective memory WJCR talks
William James Center for Research (Portugal)
2022/11 The animacy effect in prospective memory Dr. Matthias Kliegel’s lab meeting
University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
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)
2021/03/25 The animacy effect in memory Lecture for Psychology undergraduate students
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/11 The animacy effect in people with dementia Lecture for interns and health professionals
Hospital de Magalhães Lemos (Porto, Portugal)
2018/05/18 Cognitive stimulation in dementia Lecture for Psychology undergraduate students
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - 2025 Proximal mechanisms of the animacy effect
Co-supervisor
 Master's Degree in Health Psychology and Neuropsychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2024 - 2025 Proximal mechanisms of the animacy effect
Co-supervisor of Matilde Machado
 Undergraduate Degree in Psycholgy (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023 The animacy effect in memory, using ambiguous words
Co-supervisor of Sara Ramos
 Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023 The animacy effect in memory, using ambiguous words
Co-supervisor of Grazielle Dutra
 Master's Degree in Health Psychology and Neuropsychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Animacy effect
Co-supervisor of Bruna Pedrosa
 Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/09/01 - 2025/09/06 "Moving beyond standard memory and language: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology [Symposium 16]" - Symposium organized within the 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2025/09/04) (2025/09/01 - 2025/09/06)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium
2025/09/01 - 2025/09/06 "Moving beyond standard memory and language: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology [Symposium 23]" - 2nd Symposium organized within the 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2025/09/04) (2025/09/01 - 2025/09/06)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium
2024/01 - 2024/06 Psychology Journal Club (2024/01 - 2024/06)
Other
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020 - 2021 WritingLeague@UA (2020 - 2021)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/07/11 - 2023/07/11 Academia de Verão @UA 2023 - Science communication activity for kids (2023/07/10 - 2023/07/14)
Other
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025 - Current Clinical Gerontologisy Taylor & Francis
2025 - Current Análise Psicológica
2025 - Current Avances in Psicología Latinoamericana
2023 - Current Scientific Reports Nature
2021 - Current Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers
2021 - Current Memory & Cognition Springer
2021 - Current Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition American Psychological Association
2020 - Current Memory Taylor & Francis

Association member

Society Organization name Role
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
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
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) Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States

Other distinction

2022 Travel grant - ESCoP
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium
2017 Matricula de honor - Psicología de la Salud
2017 Matricula de honor - Neuropsicología Clínica
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Facultad de Psicología, Spain
2013 Prémio Católica | Ciência e Saúde 2013 - 1º Lugar
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2012 Prémio Católica | Ciência e Saúde 2012 - 4º lugar com menção honrosa
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal