Jorge Manuel Castelo Branco de Albuquerque Almeida
Assistant ProfessorFaculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação Universidade de Coimbra
Rua do Colégio Novo 3001-802 Coimbra Telephone: 00351239842383 Fax: 00351239851465 Email: jorgealmeida@fpce.uc.pt Homepage: http://gaius.fpce.uc.pt/pessoais/jorgealmeida/proaction_home.html
Education:
2006 –2011 PhD. Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Dissertation: “Unconscious processes reveal different circuits for visual object recognition”.
Committee: Alfonso Caramazza (Chair), Ken Nakayama, Patrick Cavanagh and George Alvarez
2006 – 2008 AM, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
1998-2003 Licenciatura (BA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Lisbon, Portugal.
Dissertation: “Cognitive and Neural Organization of Knowledge about Con-specifics”.
Advisor: Leonel Garcia Marques.
Workshops and Fellowships
:March 2011 Brain Voyager – fMRI Data analysis. Associação Nacional de Imagiologia Funcional Cerebral and Brain Innovation. Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
March 2008 Mini-Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Harvard Medical School of Continuing Medical Education, Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Academic Employment
2012 – present Assistant Professor – Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra. Principal Investigator – Proaction Laboratory: Laboratory for perception and recognition of objects and actions.
2011 – 2012. Marie Curie Fellow. Post-doctoral researcher. Centro de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010 – 2012. Invited Assistant Professor. School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal.
2006 – 2010. Graduate student working under the supervision of Dr. Alfonso Caramazza. Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
2006 – 2010. Graduate student working under the supervision of Dr. Ken Nakayama. Harvard University Vision Sciences Laboratory, Department of
Psychology, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 2003 – 2006 Research Assistant in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory.
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Dr. Alfonso Caramazza.
2002 – 2003 Research Internship on Social Cognition with Dr. Leonel Garcia Marques. Social Cognition Laboratory, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis title: “Cognitive and Neural Organization of Knowledge about Con-specifics”.
July 2002 – September 2002
Visiting Student working with Dr. Glyn Humphreys. Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom.
1999 – 2002 Research Assistant for Dr. Paulo Ventura. Experimental Psychology Laboratory, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Lisbon, Portugal.
Publications (in peer review journals)
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., Zapater-Raberov, V., Dziuba, A., Cabaço, T., Marques, J.F., & Caramazza, A. (2013). Grasping with the eyes: the role of elongation in visual
recognition of manipulable objects. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, DOI: 10.3758/s13415-013-0208-0. Impact Factor: 3.866
Almeida, J., Fintz, A., & Mahon, B. (2013). Tool manipulation knowledge is retrieved by way of the ventral visual object processing pathway. Cortex, DOI:
Mahon, B., Kumar, N., & Almeida, J. (2013). Spatial frequency tuning reveals visuomotor interactions between the dorsal and ventral visual systems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(6), 862-871.. Impact Factor: 5.175
Almeida, J., Pajtas, P., Mahon, B., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2013). Affect of the unconscious: visually suppressed angry faces modulate our decisions. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 94–101. Impact Factor: 3.866
Marques, J.F., Raposo, A., & Almeida, J. (2013). Structural processing and category-specific deficits. Cortex, 49, 266-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.10.006 Impact Factor: 7.271.
Garcea, F., Almeida, J., & Mahon (2012). A right visual field advantage for visual processing of manipulable objects. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 12(4), 813-25. doi: 10.3758/s13415-012-0106-x. Impact Factor: 3.565.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., and Caramazza, A. (2010). The role of the dorsal visual processing stream in tool identification. Psychological Science, 21(6), 772-778. Impact Factor: 4.699; Web of Science citations: 7.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Nakayama, K., and Caramazza, A. (2008). Unconscious processing dissociates along categorical lines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 105(39): 15214 – 15218. Impact Factor: 9.771; Web of Science citations: 26
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Categorical priming: using continuous flash suppression in an object categorization task. Journal of Vision, 8(6):840, 840a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/840/, doi:10.1167/8.6.840. Impact Factor: 2.805. Almeida, J., Knobel, M., Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2007). The locus of the frequency
effect: when recognizing is not enough. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14(6), 1177-1182. Impact Factor: 2.283; Web of Science citations: 10.
Almeida, J. (2007). The semantic/episodic distinction: the case for social information processing.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 842-849. Impact Factor: 2.202; Web of Science citations: 2.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., & Caramazza, A. (2007). Motor facilitation under binocular rivalry: the effect of suppressed motor affordances. Journal of Vision, 7(9):430, 430a,
http://journalofvision.org/7/9/430/, doi:10.1167/7.9.430. Impact Factor: 2.805.
Finkbeiner, M., Almeida, J. & Caramazza, A. (2006). Letter identification processes in reading: Distractor interference reveals an automatically engaged, domain-specific mechanism.
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(8), 1083-1103. Impact Factor: 2.082; Web of Science citations: 12.
Finkbeiner, M., Almeida, J., Janssen, N., & Caramazza, A. (2006). Lexical selection in bilingual speech production does not involve language suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(5), 1075 - 1089. Impact Factor: 2.761; Web of Science citations: 21.
Publications (in prep or currently under review)
Almeida, J., Bi, Y., Gonçalves, O., Mahon, B, & Fang, F. (submitted). Visual responses in the auditory cortex of congenitally deaf individuals. Unpublished manuscript.
Almeida, J., Bi, Y., Gonçalves, O., Sampaio, A., Ganho, A., Mahon, B, & Fang, F. (in prep). Volumetric analysis of cortical and subcortical regions in congenital deafness.
Unpublished manuscript.
Sampaio, A., Bi, Y., Gonçalves, O., Mahon, B, Fang, F., & Almeida, J. (in prep). Tractography of neuroplasticity in deaf individuals: a DTI analysis. Unpublished manuscript.
Almeida, J., Garcea, F., Amaral, M., Silva, J., Gonçalves, O., & Mahon, B. (in prep). How hands shape tools shaping hands: overlap and dissociation on the behavioral and neural profiles of the responses to hands and tools. Unpublished manuscript.
Almeida, J. & Mahon, B. (in prep). Zombies of a different kind. Unpublished manuscript.
Professional service
Adhoc Reviewing
Cognitive Neuropsychology Psychonomic Bulletin and Review Psychological Science
NeuroImage
Behavioral and Brain Functions Frontiers in Language Sciences Frontiers in Perception Sciences Visual Neuroscience
Talks
Almeida, J., Fintzi, A., & Mahon, B. (2013). Tool Manipulation Knowledge is Retrieved by way of the Ventral Visual Object Processing Pathway. 36th European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany.
Almeida, J., He, D., Chen, Q., Mahon, B.Z., Gonçalves, O., Fang, F., & Bi, Y. (2013).
Reorganização neuroplástica do córtex auditivo primário em indivíduos surdos Congénitos. VIII Simpósio Nacional Investigação em Psicologia (Portuguese Psychological Association’s National symposium), Aveiro, Portugal.
Almeida, J., He, D., Chen, Q., Mahon, B.Z., Gonçalves, O., Fang, F., & Bi, Y. (2013).
Organização retinotópica simples no córtex auditivo primário (A1) de surdos congénitos. 8th Annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology, Aveiro, Portugal.
Almeida, J., Fintzi, A., & Mahon, B. (2013). Informação sobre manipulação de objectos é processada pela via visual ventral. 8th Annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology, Aveiro, Portugal.
Almeida, J. (2013). Influência das vias visuais primárias no reconhecimento de objetos manipuláveis. Invited speaker – LabLing, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, University of Porto.
Almeida, J., Kumar, N., & Mahon, B. (2012). Low-level influences on high-level processing. 7th Annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Almeida, J. Low on High – how do low-level visual pathways affect high-level object
recognition. Invited speaker – Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, New Jersey, USA. February, 2012.
Almeida, J. Low-level Influences on High-level Processing. Invited speaker – Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal. January, 2012.
Almeida, J. Dorsal and ventral stream impairments: how optic ataxia and visual agnosia constrain theories on object recognition. Invited speaker – Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, EUA. October, 2011.
Almeida, J., Pajtas, P., Mahon, B., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2010). Turning neutral to negative: subcortically processed angry faces influence valence decisions. Tenth Vision Sciences Society Meeting—Naples, FL, EUA.
Almeida, J., Pajtas, P., Mahon, B., Zapater, V., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2010). Do neutro para o negativo: a influência da informação subcortical em decisões de carácter emocional. VII Simpósio Nacional Investigação em Psicologia (Portuguese
Psychological Association’s National symposium), Braga, Portugal.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., and Caramazza, A. (2010). Informação proveniente da via visual dorsal influencia o reconhecimento e identificação de objectos manipuláveis. VII Simpósio Nacional Investigação em Psicologia (Portuguese Psychological Association’s National symposium), Braga, Portugal.
Almeida, J. Emotions of the unconscious: how visually suppressed angry faces affect our decisions. Invited speaker – Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, ISCTE, Portugal. May, 2010.
Almeida, J. Unconscious processes reveal different circuits for visual object recognition. Invited speaker – Cognition, Brain and Behavior Seminar, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. February, 2010.
Almeida, J. Turning neutral to negative: subcortically processed angry faces influence valence decisions. Invited speaker – HSMBB Symposium: The Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior. November, 2009.
Almeida, J. Grasping Naming: how action knowledge influences object recognition. Invited speaker – Beijing Normal University. June, 2009.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Pajtas, P.E., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Category-Specific Priming for Binocularly Suppressed Images. CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives—University of Trento.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Categorical priming: using continuous flash suppression in an object categorization task. Eighth Vision Sciences Society Meeting —Naples, FL, EUA.
Almeida, J. Dissociação Categorial do Processamento Inconsciente. Invited speaker – Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, University of Lisbon, Portugal. December, 2008. Almeida, J. Category-Specific Priming for Binocular Suppressed Images. Invited speaker –
Department of Psychology, Harvard University. May, 2008.
Garcia-Marques, L., Jerónimo, R., Almeida, J., & Veríssimo, J. (Setembro, 2003). A implicação do BAS e FAS nos componentes associativo e monitor no paradigma DRM. V Simpósio Nacional Investigação em Psicologia (Portuguese Psychological Association’s National symposium), Lisboa, Portugal.
Palma-Oliveira, J., Almeida, J., & Borges, G. (Setembro, 2003). Prognósticos só no fim do jogo...se ao menos soubéssemos quem joga. V Simpósio Nacional Investigação em Psicologia (Portuguese Psychological Association’s National symposium), Lisboa, Portugal.
Posters and Abstracts
Almeida, J., Fintzi, A. & Mahon, B.Z. (2013). Tool Manipulation Knowledge is Retrieved by way of the Ventral Visual Object Processing Pathway. CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives—University of Trento, Italy.
Amaral, L., Sequeira, J., & Almeida, J. (2012). Object recognition and manipulation – hand/tool and tool/hand interactions in manipulable object processing. 7th Annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology.
Dziuba, A., Cabaço, T., Marques, J.F., & Almeida, J. (2012). Visuomotor processing and manipulable object recognition. 7th Annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology.
Almeida, J., Kumar, N., & Mahon, B. (2011). Spatial frequency tuning reveals visuomotor interactions between the dorsal and ventral visual systems. First Symposium Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme – Lisboa.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Pajtas, P.E., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2010). Emotions of the unconscious: how unconsciously presented angry faces affect our decisions. CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Pajtas, P.E., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Category-Specific Priming for Binocularly Suppressed Images. CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives— University of Trento, Italy.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2007). Motor effects under binocular rivalry: kinematic analysis of object affordances. CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives— University of Trento, Italy.
Almeida, J., Mahon, B. & Caramazza, A. (2007). Motor facilitation under binocular rivalry: the effect of suppressed motor affordances. Seventh Vision Sciences Society Meeting —Sarasota, FL, EUA.
Grants and Awards
2013 Young Investigator Award from the Portuguese Psychological Association. 2010 – present Fundação BIAL project grant. “Retinotopic reorganization of the auditory
cortex of congenitally deaf individuals due to neuroplascticity.” (€45.000,00; Role: PI).
2010 – present Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia project grant. “How low-level segregation within the visual system impacts high-level object
recognition”(PTDC/MHC-PCN/3575/2012, €94.736,00; Role: PI). 2011 – 2012 Welcome II Portugal Fellowship- Fundação para a Ciência e a
Tecnologia and Marie Curie Foundation. €43,000 per year, 3 years (€129.000,00).
2011 – 2012 Post-doctoral grant. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(€55.000,00).
2010 – present Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia project grant. “O
reconhecimento de objectos e a informação conceptual sobre objectos: independência e inter-dependência.”. PTDC/PSI-PCO/114822/2009 (€ 95.172,00).
2010 Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University.
2010 Elsevier/Vision Research Student Travel Award at the Vision Sciences Society meeting.
2008 Students present award. CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts,
Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives—University of Trento.
2004 – 2006 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Dr. Alfonso Caramazza.
Teaching and Mentoring
2013 Instructor – “Neurociência do Comportamento”, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra.
2013 Instructor – “Neuropsicologia”, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra.
2012 Co-Instructor – “Neurociência do processos psicológicos”, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal
2011-12 Instructor – “Laboratório de Neuropsicologia”, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal.
2011-12 Co-Instructor – “Fundamentos de Psicologia Cognitiva”, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.
2011-12 Co-Instructor – “Temas de Psicologia Experimental”, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal.
2011-12 Co-Instructor – “Ciência Cognitiva”, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.
2011 Co-Instructor – “Neurociência Cognitiva”, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
2011 – present Mentoring of Independent study (Lénia Amaral, School of Psychology, University of Minho).
2011 – present Mentoring of Independent study (Janete Sequeira da Silva, School of Psychology, University of Minho).
2011 – present Mentoring of Independent study (Aleksandra Dziuba, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon).
2011 – present Mentoring of Independent study (Tiago Cabaço, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon).
2009 Teaching Assistant – “Unconscious Processing in Vision and Action Psychology – PSY 2185”, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 2005 – 2010 Mentoring of Independent study (Andrew Kennard, Veronica Zapater,
Lukas Strnad, and Brandi Newell, Department of Psychology, Harvard University).
University Service
Spring 2012 Committee Member, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal. Bruno Aragão, PhD.
Fall 2011 Committee Member, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal. Maria Inês Neto Bramão, PhD.
Spring 2011 Committee Member, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Diana Orghian, Master Thesis.
Current Graduate Students
2010 – 2013 Silvana Lopes Costa – School of Psychology, University of Minho (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia scholarship SFRH / BD / 45591 / 2008). Obtained her PhD on March 1, 2013.
2013 – present Lénia Amaral (Master Student) – School of Psychology, University of Minho. 2013 – present Fernando Abreu (Master Student) – Faculty of Psychology and Educational
Sciences, University of Coimbra.
2011 – present Gonçalo Nunes (Master Student) – Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.
2011 – present Aleksandra Dziuba (Master Student) – Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.
References
Professor Alfonso Caramazza Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel.: 001 6174953867 caram@wjh.harvard.edu Professor Ken Nakayama
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology,
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel.: 001 6174953843 ken@wjh.harvard.edu
Professor Bradford Mahon Assistant Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department of Neurosurgery
University of Rochester Rochester, NY
Phone: 001 5852765234 mahon@bcs.rochester.edu Professor Óscar Gonçalves Full Professor
School of Psychology University of Minho Braga, Portugal
