Susana Araújo
CO2 COORDINATOR
I am a Research Associate (career) at Faculty of Psychology, ULisboa, Portugal, and a senior researcher in the research team Memory and Language.
After my PhD in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (University of Algarve, Portugal; Donders Institute, the Netherlands), I was awarded two Postdoctoral Fellowships to study neurocognitive markers of successful and failing reading acquisition (2012-2017, at University of Algarve and ULisboa), and in 2015 I was a Visiting Researcher at Max Planck Institute (the Netherlands), where I started lasting collaborations with leading researchers as Falk Huettig.
My research interests in cognitive psychology and neuroscience lie in the domain of the reading faculty and its instantiation in the brain. I apply electrophysiological (EEG) and eyetracking techniques to investigate the neurobiological and cognitive substrates of visual word recognition and reading in typical and atypical (dyslexia) development. I also have been interested in exploring how a cultural acquisition like reading shapes fundamental abilities of human cognition (such as naming of everyday objects). Recent work is further directed at understanding how the perceptual-motor coupling (reading and writing) underpins visual letter recognition, combining machine learning techniques and EEG.
In my free time, I love sport, reading, hanging out with friends, and going to the beach (I am definitely a sun lover!).
If you want to know more about my research, please send me an e-mail