Khaoula Ennahli (3618-A811-CA3C)

Curriculum Vitae

Khaoula Ennahli

I hold a bachelor's degree in Portuguese Studies and a master's degree in Cognitive Science. During my bachelor's degree, I researched how different cultures and groups conceive abstract domains like time. For my master's degree, I conducted a neuropsychological and linguistic research study on proper names and common nouns dissociation in linguistic processing and memory retrieval. During this time, I was also a research intern in a project examining the role of the hippocampus in memory retrieval in Alzheimer's disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Furthermore, I was also a volunteer trainee in a project on Adaptive Memory. During my research training, I used a combination of techniques (i.e., Electroencephalography (EEG), Electrodermal activity (EDA), Electromyography (EMG), Electrocardiogram (ECG), and Eye-tracking). As scientific products, I co-authored presentations at international and national conferences and co-authored a scientific article on 'Neural signatures of naming retrieval' that is in preparation. Recently, I have been particularly drawn to the intersection of creative cognition, memory, and healthy aging. To conduct my Ph.D in ISCTE, I am honored to have been offered the prestigious La Caixa Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship from la Caixa Foundation (ID 100010434). The fellowship code is LCF/BQ/DR23/12000037. My Ph.D project focuses on comparing the effectiveness of creativity-based and standard cognitive-based strategies in enhancing declarative memories in older adults. I have a passion for visual arts, particularly painting. This personal interest is not only fulfilling in itself, but it also has a valuable connection to my professional interests in the psychology of creative cognition and the complex interplay between cognition, memory, and creativity. Currently, I am a member of the BEC (Behavior, Emotion, and Cognition) research group (Cis-IUL) and responsible for several research activities.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Khaoula Ennahli

Citation names

Ennahli, Khaoula
Ennahli, K.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3618-A811-CA3C

Email addresses

keiah@iscte-iul.pt (Profissional)

Telephones

Telemóvel

920254281 (Pessoal)

Knowledge fields

Ciências Sociais - Psicologia

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Árabe (Mother tongue)
Berbere (Mother tongue)
Francês	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Português	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2026 Em curso	Psychology (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal "The effectiveness of creativity-based strategies in enhancing Declarative Memories." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2023 - 2023 Concluído	Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal	19 (0-20)
2019 - 2022 Concluído	Cognitive Science (Mestrado) Major in Neuropschology Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "Proper Names and Common Nouns Dissociation: Exploring Differences in Linguistic Processing and Memory Retrieval" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19 (0-20) (thesis)
2016 - 2019 Concluído	Portuguese studies (Bachelor) Major in Psycholinguistics Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Marrocos "The Limits of Language Effects on Perception (The Tamazight Language as a Model)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17 (0-20)

Affiliation

Ciência

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10 - Current	Assistente de Investigação (carreira) (Investigação)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Outros

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10 - Current	Team member in the project '' 'What is this place? Memory for proper names.''	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

2023/07 - Current	Team member in the project ''Naming Topographies.''	Cis-IUL, Portugal
	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/07 - Current	Team member in the project ''Measuring objective cognitive load through heart rate: the case for individual factors''.	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2022/12 - 2023/02	Volunteer trainee in a project on Adaptive Memory.	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/12 - 2021/12	Volunteer trainee in the project ''The modulation of typicality and schema congruency in memory retrieval in Alzheimer's Disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder''.	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/12 - 2019/07	Responsible for the Portuguese Language Center.	Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal
	Université Mohammed V Agdal Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Marrocos

Projects

Bolsa

	Designation	Funders
2023 - 2026	Comparing the effectiveness of creativity-based and standard cognitive-based strategies in enhancing Declarative Memories. LCF/BQ/DR23/12000037 Bolseiro de Doutoramento ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal	La Caixa Foundation Em curso

Outro

	Designation	Funders
2023/06 - Current	Measuring objective cognitive load through heart rate: the case for individual factors. no ID reference	Em curso
2022 - Current	Naming Topographies NO ID AVAILABLE	Em curso

Outputs

Publicações

Capítulo de livro	Souza, C.; Ennahli, K.; Garrido, M. V.. "Electroencefalografia: Procedimentos e significado psicológico". In Caderno de laboratório: Guia prático para investigadores/as, 85-95. Lisboa, Portugal: LAPSO-Laboratório de Psicologia, Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2024. Publicado
Poster em conferência	Souza, C.; Ennahli, K.; Frade, Sofia; Carmo, Joana; Garrido, M. V.. "A place, a person, and an object to remember: Comparing ERP components of naming retrieval of different categories.". Paper presented in Global Neuropsychology Conference, 2024. Ennahli, K.; Souza, C.; Garrido, M. V.. "Effects of Creativity-Based Activities on Declarative Memory in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.". Paper presented in 18º ENCONTRO NACIONAL APPE, 2024. Ennahli, K.; Souza, C.; Garrido, M. V.. ""Comparing The Efficacy of Creativity-based and Cognitive-based Programs in Improving Declarative Memory in Older Adults.".". 2023. Ennahli, K.; Souza, Cristiane; Garrido, Margarida V.. "Comparing The Efficacy of Creativity-based and Cognitive-based Programs in Improving Declarative Memory in Older Adults.". Paper presented in Graduate Symposium: Special Program of the Graduate School of the Center for Cognitive Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, participation funded by the Center for Cognitive Science., 2023. Ennahli, K.; Souza, Cristiane; Carmo, Joana. "Proper Names and Common Nouns Dissociation: Exploring Differences in Linguistic Processing and Memory Retrieval.". Paper presented in The XVIII PhD Meeting in Psychology, Doctoral Program, Iscte-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal., 2023. Souza, Cristiane; Garrido, Margarida Vaz; Ennahli, K.; Carmo, Joana. "Long-lasting theta and long-lasting alpha dissociable oscillatory activity.". Paper presented in the Annual Mid-Year Barcelona Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society., 2022. Souza, Cristiane; Garrido, Margarida V.; Ennahli, K.; Carmo, Joana. "Oscillation patterns for naming retrieval: Examining differences between known objects, people, and places.". Paper presented in The International APPE-SEPEX Meeting., 2022. Souza, C.; Garrido, M. V.; Ennahli, K.; Carmo, Joana. "Naming of topography: long-lasting theta and long-lasting alpha dissociable oscillatory activity.". Paper presented in Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society., 2022.
Tese / Dissertação	Ennahli, K.. "Proper Names and Common Nouns Dissociation: Exploring Differences in Linguistic Processing and Memory Retrieval.". Mestrado, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56725.

Artística / Interpretação

Exposição artística

Arte para todos. 2024.
Cidade Surrealista. 2023.
AI'topia. 2023.

Outros

Outra produção

A place, a person, and an object to remember: Comparing ERP components of naming retrieval of different categories. Global Neuropsychology Congress. 2024. Souza, C.; Ennahli, K.; Frade, S.; Joana C. Carmo; Garrido, M. V.. https://www.globalneuropsychology.org/.

Activities

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/05	Signatures of Associative and Dissociative Creative Thinking: an Eye-Tracking Study	BEC Meetings Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/04	Signatures of Associative and Dissociative Creative Thinking: an Eye-Tracking Study	19º ENCONTRO NACIONAL APPE A Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
2025/03	Foundations of EEG Analysis: Pre-processing Techniques and Time-Frequency Methods	LabMeeting (LAPSO) Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/07	The Effectiveness of Creativity-based Activities in Enhancing Declarative memories.	Invited Talk - Graduate School Seminar Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (Kaiserslautern, Alemanha)
2024/07	Norms for paintings: Theoretical background, analysis and interpretation of normative data	Invited Talk- Master degree in Cognitive Science Seminar Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (Kaiserslautern, Alemanha)
2024/06	fMRI Design: Unlocking the Creative Mind.	Memory Projects (Collaboration RPTU) the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) (Alemanha)
2024/05	The effectiveness of creativity-based strategies in enhancing Declarative Memories	Memory Projects (Collaboration RPTU) The Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) (Alemanha)
2024/05	The effectiveness of creativity-based strategies in enhancing Declarative Memories.	The XIX PhD Meeting in Psychology Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/04	The neural signatures of creativity: An EEG Study of Art-Based Stimulation	BEC Meetings Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social (CIS), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE). (Portugal)
2023/11	Comparing the effectiveness of creativity-based and standard cognitive-based strategies in enhancing Declarative Memories.	BEC Meetings Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social (CIS), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE). (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/02	Proper names and common nouns.	Psycholinguistic Meetings Psycholinguistics Laboratory-School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)

Organização de evento

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2025/05 - Current	Co-coordinater of the ''PsyCoffee: LAPSO Journal Club'' (ISCTE-IUL) (2025/05) Encontro	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/05	Part of the organizing committee for the 2024 PhD meeting in Psychology, at Iscte-IUL. (2024/05/23 - 2024/05/24) (2024/05/23 - 2024/05/24) Conferência	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Participação em evento

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/10 - Current	Attendee at ''the Becari@s Knowledge Day on Ageing''. Conferência	La Caixa Foundation, Espanha
2023/10 - Current	Participation in the BEC research group meetings Encontro	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/05 - Current	Participation in the workshops organized for the third edition of the Dali project ''Cidades Surrealistas'' (Digital Arts Lab, Iscte /Laboratório de Artes Digitais do Iscte). Oficina (workshop)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2025/04 - 2025/04	2nd Year Annual Gathering of the INPhINIT Fellowship Training Program provided by SIRIS Academic. Outro	La Caixa Foundation, Espanha
2025/02 - 2025/02	Participated in the workshop ''Experimental Research: Exploring the Eye-Tracking in the Study of Cognitive Processes'', by Sofia Frade Oficina (workshop)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/12 - 2024/12	Participated in the workshop ''From Electrodes to Insights: A Practical Guide to Psychophysiological Studies'', by Sofia Frade Oficina (workshop)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/11/25 - 2024/11/26	6th Students Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Ulisboa Congresso	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/10 - 2024/10	Conferência Fundação BIAL 30 ANOS + Entrega Prémio Maria de Sousa 2024. Conferência	Conferência Fundação BIAL 30 ANOS
2024/07 - 2024/07	Labor Rotation in the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau Outro
2024/07 - 2024/07	Attendee at the Cognitive Science Colloquium ''Psychosocial Aspects & Dementia'', by Francisca Rodriguez (University of Greifswald). Outro	The Cognitive Science Colloquium Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Alemanha
2023/10 - 2024/07	Participation in the BEC research grouo meetings Encontro	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/04	Attendee at the 18º national meeting of the APPE congress. Congresso	18º ENCONTRO NACIONAL APPE Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/04	Hello World: Introduction to Programming Psychology Studies with MATLAB Oficina (workshop)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/02	1st Year Annual Gathering of the INPhINIT Fellowship Training Program: The PhD as a Journey: Networking & Ice Breaker Session, Teamwork and Collective Intelligence, Storytelling in Research and Body Language and Research Integrity. Outro	1st Year Annual Gathering of the INPhINIT Fellowship Training Programme La Caixa Foundation, Espanha
2023/07 - 2023/07	Meet the expert, Elizabeth Loftus. Encontro	Graduate Symposium: Special Program of the Graduate School of the Center for Cognitive Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, participation funded by the Center for Cognitive Science. Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Alemanha
2023/07 - 2023/07	Attendee at the The Haaß-Talk, Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus [Conference session]. Conferência	Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Alemanha
2023/06 - 2023/06	Souza, Ana; Frada, Joana. Brief course on Art Therapy Art & Emotions. Outro	Sociedade Portuguesa de Arte-Terapia, Portugal
2023/05 - 2023/05	World Wide Neuro Seminars : Prof Laurent Nguyen. Seminário	Université de Liège, Bélgica
2023/05 - 2023/05	Attendee at '' The XVIII PhD Meeting in Psychology''. Congresso	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/05 - 2023/05	Attendee at "Hedonic vs. Epistemic Mindsets: Implications for Emotion, Knowledge, Involvement, Art, and Beyond", prof.Pablo Briñol [Conference session]. Conferência	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023/05	Participation in the workshops organized for the second edition of the Dali project ''AI'topia'' (Digital Arts Lab, Iscte /Laboratório de Artes Digitais do Iscte). Oficina (workshop)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/03	4th UK-Portugal Forum on Healthy Ageing [Conference session].	Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/03	Attendee at "Memórias Narrativas" [Conference session].	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2022/10 - 2022/10	Souza, Cristiane. How emotions influence judgment, decision-making, and memory. Lecture presented at the Cognition and Emotion Seminar. Outro	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/06 - 2022/06	Committeri, Georgia. Human studies on the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis between navigation and memory. Seminar presented at the Fred Talks, Ciclo de Encontros em Homenagem a J. Frederico Marques. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2021/11 - 2021/11	De la Prida, Liset. What is hippocampal sclerosis? A cell-type specific perspective. Presented at de la Prida's World Wide Neuro Seminar [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Instituto de Neurobiología Ramón y Cajal, Espanha
2021/04 - 2021/04	NEUROCCINO. Clinical neuroanatomy seminars [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Université de Bordeaux, França
2021/01 - 2021/01	Bernardo, Patrícia. Function of the hippocampal-retrosplenial cortex circuit in the resolution of a spatial conflict task, Presented at Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/01	Simões, Hugo. Characterization of neuroinflammatory and synaptic plasticity dysfunction in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of depression. Presented at Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/01	Sottomayor, Mariana. Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor on Childhood Absence Epilepsy: from circuits to behaviour. Presented at Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/01	Oliveira, Sara. (January 04, 2021). Search for novel compounds to prevent TrkB-FL cleavage. Presented at Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/01	NEUROCCINO. Clinical neuroanatomy seminars [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Université de Bordeaux, França
2021/01 - 2021/01	Summavielle, Teresa. Neuroinflammation and substance abuse: partners in crime. Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/01	Moreira, João. Unveiling the effects of caffeine in adult neurogenesis and synaptogenesis. Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/11 - 2020/11	Rei, Nádia. The effect of a putative antiepileptic drug on GABA uptake in the rat hippocampus. Presented at Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/11 - 2020/11	Participation in the workshops of psychology of language, and language in Psychology. Oficina (workshop)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2020/11 - 2020/11	Tahko, Tuomas. Natural Kinds, Mind-Independence, and Unification Principles. Seminar series in Analytic Philosophy [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/11 - 2020/11	Reinecke, Katharina. On-line experiments with volunteers [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/10 - 2020/10	De Oliveira, Gonçalo. Disfluency and cognitive control: When it's better to make it worse. Presented at Colégio Mente Cérebro [Zoom seminar]. Seminário	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2025/03 - 2025/03	Creativity and Memory: Evidences from Neurosciences and Cognitive Psychology.	Cognition and Emotion (Mestrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2025/03 - 2025/03	Visual Processing Disorders	(Bacharelato)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/11 - 2024/11	Emotion, Memory and Artificial intelligence in Art	Cognition and Emotion (Mestrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/05 - 2024/05	Language Disorders	Neuropsicologia (Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/04	Neuropsychology of Memory: Amnesic Syndromes and Categorial Deficits	(Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Membro de associação

	Society Organization name	Role
2024/02 - Current	Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology	Adherent member
2019/05 - Current	Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos, AMEII, Casablanca, Morocco.	Member

Tutoria

	Topic	Student name
2025/03 - Current	EEG data collection training	Diogo Miguel, María Fernando Barbosa, Efrosyni Kouzi, Ifi Tzelai, Antonia Vagena
2023/11 - Current	Behavioral data analysis	Madalena Cardoso and Andréa Darco
2023/10 - Current	EEG data collection training and analysis	Maria Kantou, Lefteris Chatzopoulous
2023/10 - Current	Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis training	Maria Kantou
2025/02 - 2025/02	Preparation of the Experimental Setting in Psychology	Diogo and Francisca
2024/04 - 2024/04	Eye-Tracking data collection training	Cátia Silva, Margarida Martins, Pedro Filipe, Inês Batista
2024/02 - 2024/02	EEG data collection training	Lucas and Inês
2021/07 - 2021/07	Monitoring on electroencephalography data collection.	Rafael Ramos Ribeiro

Distinctions

Outra distinção

2023	Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship by Fundación ”la Caixa''.
2021	Individual scholarship by the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Scientific Research of Morocco. The ¿Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education, and Scientific Research of Morocco. ¿, Marrocos
2019	Individual Research Scholarship by the Portuguese government through the Camões Institute-institute of cooperation and language. Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal
2019	Scholarship Fernão Mendes Pinto Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal
2017	Scholarship Verão Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal