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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…

Susana Araújo and co-authors have just published a new paper in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The study explains how literacy acquisition and education enhance rapid naming of everyday objects…

On July 10, 2016 Portugal’s national football team won for the first time the UEFA European Championship. The event was marked by Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury on the first half, which…

Congratulations to Andreia Ribeiro who has been awarded a PhD scholarship from FCT! Andreia is interested in understanding the extent to which individuals share similar memory representations of public events,…