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This month we say goodbye to the amazing postdocs, Emma Delhaye, Giorgia D’Innocenzo and María J. Maraver. It’s been a privilege having them in the lab, sharing ideas and working…

We are participating in science dissemination events this summer where we will showcase our research in Cognitive Psychology to young students and the community. Participants will be engaged in lively…

Read the most recent paper by Ventura, Banha & Cruz (2022) available in our Publication list. >> Ventura, P., Banha, A, & Cruz, F. (2022).  Partial overlap between holistic processing of…

We are pleased to have Professor Giorgia Committeri from the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) as invited speaker of a FredTalk entitled “Human studies on the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis…

Michelle Rivers, one of the Psychonomic Society’s Digital Associate Editors, wrote a fantastic piece on the recently published paper “Change detection vs. change localization for own-race and other-race faces” by…

Find out more about the most recent paper by Paulo Ventura published on Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02497-0

Congratulations to Emma Delhaye for being one of the recipients of the CICPSI small research grants! In her project, Emma proposes to explore the mechanisms underlying the formation of unitized…

Paulo Ventura is a member of the review board of the forthcoming Cognitive Psychology: A Student’s Handbook, 9th Edition, by Michael Eysenck and Mark Keane. Considered a reference in the field, the…

Sea, sun... and science! Several members of MeL are presenting their work at the first joint APPE-SEPEX meeting in May, in the city of Faro, Algarve. This meeting brings together…

MeL students are presenting their master and PhD projects at JIP22, a scientific meeting organized for and by students of FP-ULisboa. Anastasiia Mikhailova, Conceptual and perceptual effects on semantic interference…