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Sérgio master's defense

06.December.2022

Today Sérgio Ribeiro successfully defended his master's thesis entitled "The effect of anxiety on the visual perception of social scenes: how visual predictions are used about threat." Sérgio explored in his thesis the impact of anxiety states on our perception of social scenarios. He questioned...

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Sara's master's defense

02.December.2022

Sara Cordeiro successfully defended her master's thesis entitled “Emotions in Motion: Representational moment for dynamic facial expressions in schizotypy traits.”In her thesis, Sara applied a behavioural paradigm to study the effect of schizotypy traits – a personality structure characterized...

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EmoSenses at ESCAN 2022

26.July.2022

Last week, PhD fellow Joana Grave went to Vienna, Austria to present one of her studies at the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience conference #ESCAN2022, in the session dedicated to the perception of faces and emotions! At this event, researchers from around the world presented...

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How do we perceive gravity?

04.May.2022

Have you ever seen a car in neutral going up a hill by itself? If so, you were "victim" of a visual illusion related to the perception of gravity! But why does this happen? Find the answer in this science dissemination article written by Prof. Nuno de Sá Teixeira!   Link: https://www.sulinformacao.pt/2022/05/as-ladeiras-misteriosas-onde-as-coisas-sobem-quando-deviam-descer/?fbclid=IwAR0KcC0so-NuqWNWfUK99FY3aU31az9LHGS4jQNWQZwyYpS_lZ6LqxyJ9Ho

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EmoSenses visits Sweden!

19.April.2022

A few weeks ago, Filipa Barros was awarded a travel grant by the European Society for Smell and Taste Research (ECRO) This grant supported her visit to the Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Stockholm University (SU) in Sweden. On this trip, Filipa and some of her colleagues from the Emo|Senses Lab...

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Tania's master's defense

24.November.2021

Today, Tânia successfully defended her master's thesis! Her work, supervised by professor Sandra Soares in collaboration with the PhD student Fábio Silva, explored how states of anxiety affect our ability to regulate distracting information when it has emotional value.

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