Posts by Ana Raposo

Consider different art movements. Faces are represented in strikingly different ways. The Renaissance movement brought realism back to art and seeks to depict people as accurately as possible. In post-impressionism,…

We warmly welcome Falk Huettig to CICPSI/FP-ULisboa and to the MeL team. Falk is a Senior Investigator at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and full professor of Psycholinguistics and Cultural…

Congratulations to Emma Delhaye on being selected by FCT’s Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus! We are very glad that Emma’s work has been recognized in a highly competitive call…

Ana Raposo is honoured to be appointed Visiting Professor at the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences at Università Degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy. She is looking forward…

Congratulations to Susana Araújo who has been designated PI of the Cognition in Context (CO2) group of CICPSI! Susana has been contributing to research excellence at MeL/CO2 for years. She…

Check out the new paper by Tânia Fernandes and collaborators in which they traced the developmental trajectory of mirrored-letter and rotated-letter priming effects in visual word recognition. E.g., ibea and…

We are pleased to announce that our paper on “Change detection versus change localization for faces, houses, and words” has been published in the journal Perception and is now available…

We can create an infinite number of distinct sentences. Despite this seemingly unlimited flexibility in constructing sentences, we frequently anticipate upcoming words when reading a book, listening to a conversation…

In this paper, we present ObScene, a database that comprises real world pictures of objects and scenes. The images can be used in isolation or combined to form semantically congruent…

Faces are central to art and cognition. In visual arts, faces are represented in very different ways, depending on the artist, the artistic movement or the art period. Some portraits…