Marta Rocha's main research interests involve the study of emotional categorization in multisensory stimuli and its effects on behavior and psychophysiology.

Recently, she has been focusing on combining social visual stimuli (faces), with social olfactory stimuli (body odors) collected in emotional contexts, in order to mimic the phenomenological experience and understand their influence on behavior and psychophysiological responses (e.g., cardiac activity).

Supervisor: Sandra C. Soares

Main publications

Rocha, M., Parma, V., Lundstrom, J., & Soares, S. C. (2018). Anxiety body odors as context for dynamic faces: Categorization and psychophysiological biases. Perception, 47(10-11), 1054-1069. doi:10.1177/0301006618797227

Parma, V., Macedo, S., Rocha, M., Alho, L., Ferreira, J., & Soares, S. C. (2018). The effects of emotional visual context on the encoding and retrieval of body odor information. Perception, 47(4), 451-465. doi:10.1177/0301006618756811

Carvalho, J., Czop, O., Rocha, M., Nobre, P., & Soares, S. C. (2018). Gender differences in the processing of romantic versus sexually explicit stimuli: Findings from an automatic attention task. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 15(8), 1083-1092. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.06.008.

Soares, S. C., Rocha, M., Neiva, T., Rodrigues, P., & Silva, C. F. (2015). Social anxiety under load: the effects of perceptual load in processing emotional faces. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 479. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00479.

Alho, L., Soares, S. C., Ferreira, J., Rocha, M., Silva, C. F., & Olsson, M. J. (2015). Nosewitness identification: Effects of negative emotion. PLOS ONE, 10(1): e0116706. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116706