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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…

We are delighted to share the new paper published by Faísca, Reis & Araújo in which they explore the heterogeneity of the cognitive profile of university students with dyslexia. Particularly…

Do you wonder how memories are stored? Can you avoid falling for visual illusions? Have you ever heard the sound of neurons firing? If you are intrigued by how the mind…

Check out our newest publication in Neuropsychologia. The paper focuses on semantic cognition in healthy aging and investigates the interplay between conceptual representation and control as people grow older. We…

Tânia Fernandes and Ana Raposo have been invited to the Scientific Committee of the 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology - ESCoP 2023. As members of the…

Emma Delhaye and Ana Raposo, along with Mohamed Bahri (ULiege) and Moreno Coco (Sapienza URome) have published a paper on the neural substrates of processing items that are atypical (penguin)…

MeL students presented their master and PhD projects at JIP23, a student-led scientific meeting at FP-ULisboa. Andreia Ribeiro gave a blitz talk about the construction of collective memories for sporting…