Ana Luísa Nunes Raposo
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.araposo.com
Office Address: Faculdade de Psicologia,
Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351 217 943 867
Born: October 4, 1978
Nationality: Portuguese
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Academic Appointments
2013-pres.
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2009-2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2006-2008
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,
Duke University, USA.
Education
2002-2006
PhD in Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Title: The interaction of conceptual structure and processing demands. Supervisors:
Professor Lorraine K. Tyler and Dr. Helen E. Moss.
2001-2002
MPhil in Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Title: Investigations of conceptual structure using the repetition suppression
paradigm. Supervisor: Professor Lorraine K. Tyler.
1996-2001
Licenciatura in Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Grants and Awards
2012
2001-2005
2003-2005
2003-2005
2003
2001-2003
1997-1998
NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, USA.
Doctoral Scholarship, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal.
Brain Travel Grant, UK.
Tutorial Travel Award/American Alumni Travel Award, St. Edmunds College, UK.
Grindley Grant, Experimental Psychology Society, UK.
European Student Bursary, Cambridge European Trust, UK.
Merit Scholarship, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Research Projects
2013-2015
Principal investigator of the project Interaction of medial and lateral temporal lobe
in memory expression: insights from patient and fMRI data, Fundação Bial 89/12,
Portugal. Funding: €17 000.
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2012-2015
Member of the project Parameterizing typicality to study brain systems underlying
semantic categories, FCT PTDC/PSI-PCO/118148/2010, Portugal. Principal
investigator: J. Frederico Marques. Funding: €80 000.
2011-2014
Principal investigator of the project Interactions between semantic and episodic
memory, FCT PTDC/PSI-PCO/113774/2009, Portugal. Funding: €109 665.
2011-2014
Member of the project Object recognition and conceptual-related knowledge:
Independence and interdependency, FCT PTDC/PSI-PCO/114822/2009, Portugal.
Principal investigator: J. Frederico Marques. Funding: €95 172.
2010-2011
Member of the project fMRI studies of language comprehension, Centro de
Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Principal investigator:
J. Frederico Marques. Funding: €5 000.
Ad Hoc Referee
Cortex; NeuroImage; Neurocase; Neuropsychologia, Plos One.
Publications
In press
Raposo, A. & Marques, J.F. The contribution of fronto-parietal regions to sentence
comprehension: insights from the Moses illusion. NeuroImage.
2013
Marques, J.F., Raposo, A. & Almeida, J. Structural processing and category-specific
deficits. Cortex 49, 266-275.
2012
Marques, J.F., Mendes, M. & Raposo, A. Sensitivity and salience of form-function
correlations of objects: evidence from feature tasks. Memory & Cognition 40, 748759.
2012
Raposo, A., Mendes, M. & Marques, J.F. The hierarchical organization of semantic
memory: executive function in the processing of superordinate concepts. NeuroImage
59, 1870-1878.
2011
Marques, J.F. & Raposo, A. Structural dimensions of object pictures: organization and
relation to object decision and naming. Visual Cognition 19, 705-729.
2011
Raposo, A., Vicens, L., Clithero, J.A., Dobbins, I.G. & Huettel, S.A. Contributions
of frontopolar cortex to judgments about self, others, and relations. Social Cognitive
and Affective Neuroscience 6, 260-269.
2010
Han, S., Huettel, S.A., Raposo, A., Adcock, R.A. & Dobbins, I.G. Functional
significance of striatal responses during episodic decisions: recovery or goal
attainment? The Journal of Neuroscience 30, 4767-4775.
2010
Dobbins, I.G. & Raposo, A. Episodic and autobiographical memory: psychological
and neural aspects. In G. Koob, R.F. Thompson and M. Le Moal (eds) Encyclopedia of
Behavioral Neuroscience. London: Elsevier.
2009
Raposo, A., Han, S. & Dobbins, I.G. Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and self-initiated
semantic elaboration during memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia Special Issue on
Episodic Memory and the Brain 47, 2261-2271.
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2009
Raposo, A., Moss, H.E., Stamatakis, E.A. & Tyler, L.K. Modulation of motor and
premotor cortices by actions, action words and action sentences. Neuropsychologia
47, 388-396.
2006
Raposo, A., Moss, H.E., Stamatakis, E.A. & Tyler, L.K. Repetition suppression and
semantic enhancement: An investigation of the neural correlates of priming.
Neuropsychologia 44, 2284-2295.
Conference Organization
2012
Organizing committee of the Workshop on Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation,
Behavioral Neurology Group of the Portuguese Society of Neurology, Lisbon,
Portugal.
2012
Organizing committee of the Annual Meeting of the Behavioral Neurology Group of
the Portuguese Society of Neurology, Porto, Portugal.
2012
Organizing committee of the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of
Experimental Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
2004
Organizing committee of the CamLing The University of Cambridge Postgraduate
Conference in Language Research, Cambridge, UK.
Invited Talks
2013
A influência do contexto na construção de significado: dados de fMRI. ISCTE – Instituto
Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.
2013
Understanding words in context: the role of fronto-temporal-parietal network in
language comprehension. Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, University of
Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
O processamento dinâmico da linguagem: estudos de fMRI sobre ambiguidade
semântica. Encontro Anual da Secção de Neurologia do Comportamento da Sociedade
Portuguesa de Neurologia, Lisboa, Portugal.
2011
Processing concepts at different hierarchical levels: evidence from fMRI, patient data
and computational modeling. Brain Imaging Interest Group, Technical University of
Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
fMRI studies of language comprehension: from co-activation to connectivity in the
brain. Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010
An apple but not a fruit: the neural correlates of superordinate knowledge. Workshop
on Networking Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010
Bater o pé sem bater as botas: como o cérebro entende o significado das palavras em
contexto. Ciclo de Palestras em Português, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2007
Implicit and explicit pathways in memory expression. Symposium on Vision Sciences,
IBILI, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
2006
Modulation of the language system as a function of semantics and syntax. Memory at
Duke, Duke University, USA.
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2006
Representation and processing of conceptual knowledge. MRC Cognition and Brain
Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
Conference Presentations
2012
Raposo, A. & Marques, J.F. Attributing meaning in context: an fMRI study using
semantic illusions. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans,
USA.
2012
Alves, M., Marques, J.F. & Raposo, A. O formato da pista de recuperação influencia a
memória de contexto. Encontro Anual da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia
Experimental. Lisboa, Portugal.
2012
Raposo, A. & Marques, J.F. Atribuição de significado em contexto: um estudo de fMRI
sobre ilusões semânticas. 2º Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia. Lisboa,
Portugal.
2011
Raposo, A., Mendes, M. & Marques, J.F. The role of L lateral PFC in processing of
superordinate concepts. Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
Raposo, A., Mendes, M. & Marques, J.F. Processing superordinate and basic level
concepts: the role of executive function. 3th Meeting of the European Societies of
Neuropsychology. Basel, Switzerland.
2011
Raposo, A., Mendes, M. & Marques, J.F. The hierachical organization of semantic
memory: executive function in the processing of superordinate concepts. 5th
International Conference on Memory. York, UK.
2011
Raposo, A., Mendes, M. & Marques, J.F. Executive function in the processing of
superordinate concepts: an fMRI study. Encontro Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de
Psicologia Experimental. Coimbra, Portugal.
2010
Raposo, A., Vicens, L., Clithero, J.A., Dobbins, I.G. & Huettel, S.A. Reflecting upon
self, others and relations: contributions of frontopolar cortex to mentalizing and
relational reasoning. Encontro Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia
Experimental. Braga, Portugal.
2008
Raposo, A., Han, S. & Dobbins, I.G. Examining recollective scaling using free-report
procedures. Memory Disorders Research Society. St. Louis, USA.
2008
Han, S., Huettel, S.A., Raposo, A., Adcock, R.A. & Dobbins, I.G. Memory as a reward:
goal-directed reward processing during episodic recognition. Annual Meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC, USA.
2008
Han, S., Eslick, A., Raposo, A. & Dobbins, I.G. Left ventrolateral PFC and source
remembering: deliberative recollection through semantic elaboration. Annual Meeting
of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, USA.
2007
Raposo, A., Han, S. & Dobbins, I.G. Lateral prefrontal cortex and source memory
retrieval: evidence for subject induced strategies. Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience. San Diego, USA.
2006
Raposo, A., Moss, H.E., Stamatakis, E.A., Pulvermüller, F. & Tyler, L.K. The
processing of action words in literal and idiomatic contexts. Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, USA.
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2005
Raposo, A., Moss, H.E., Stamatakis, E.A. & Tyler, L.K. Comparing the neural
correlates of semantic and repetition priming. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society. New York, USA.
2005
Schwarzbauer, C., Raposo, A. & Tyler, L.K. Spin-echo fMRI overcomes susceptibility
induced signal losses in the inferior temporal lobes. Human Brain Mapping Annual
Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
2004
Raposo, A., Stamatakis, E.A., Moss, H.E. & Tyler, L.K. Interactions between
processing demands and conceptual structure in object recognition: an erfMRI study.
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, USA.
2004
Raposo, A., Stamatakis, E.A., Moss, H.E. & Tyler, L.K. Interacção entre estrutura
conceptual e processamento no reconhecimento de objectos: um estudo de fMRI.
Congresso Hispano-Português de Psicologia. Lisbon, Portugal.
2004
Raposo, A., Moss, H.E. & Tyler, L.K. Category-related patterns in object recognition:
an fMRI study. CamLing The University of Cambridge Second Postgraduate Conference
in Language Research. Cambridge, UK.
2003
Raposo, A., Moss, H.E., Rodd, J., Bright, P., Stamatakis, E.A. & Tyler, L.K. The
representation of conceptual knowledge in the brain. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society. New York, USA.
Mentoring
2012-pres.
Co-advisor of the PhD thesis of José Fonseca, A mente além da linguagem: influência
da afasia noutros domínios cognitivos. Doctoral program in Voice, Language and
Communication, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2012-pres.
Adviser of the MPhil dissertation of Mara Alves, A relação entre memória semântica e
episódica: efeitos da tipicidade do conceito. Faculty of Psychology, University of
Lisbon, Portugal.
2012-pres.
Adviser of the FCT advanced training program of Sofia Frade, Interactions of sematic
and episodic memory: fMRI studies. Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon,
Portugal.
2011-2012
Adviser of the advanced training program of BA student Mara Alves, Interactions of
sematic and episodic memory: behavioral studies. Faculty of Psychology, University
of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010-2012
Adviser of the MPhil dissertation of Pedro Simões, A relevância de dimensões
estruturais para a nomeação de objetos. Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon,
Portugal.
2010-2011
Adviser of the MPhil dissertation of Diana Orghian, Dimensões estruturais dos objetos:
do reconhecimento à nomeação. Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Teaching
2010-pres.
Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology. PhD program in Cognitive Science,
University of Lisbon, Portugal.
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2010-pres.
Cognitive Psychology. MPhil program in Cognitive Science, University of Lisbon,
Portugal.
2010-pres.
Research Methods in Psychology. 1st year of Psychology Course, Faculty of
Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010-pres.
Principles of Cognitive Psychology. 1st year of Psychology Course, Faculty of
Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2010-pres.
Topics on Memory. MPhil course in Psychology and Cognitive Science, Faculty of
Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2005
Semantics and Pragmatics. MPhil course, Research Centre for English and Applied
Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK.
2005
Language, Mind and Brain. Part II Course, Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Cambridge, UK.
Professional Service
2011-pres.
2011-pres.
2009-2011
2011
2010
2010
2004-2005
Secretary of the Portuguese Society of Experimental Psychology.
Secretary of the Neurology of Behavior Group of the Portuguese Society of Neurology.
Member of the Scientific Council, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.
Committee Member of MPhil Dissertation, University of Lisbon, Ana Teresa Santos.
Committee Member of MPhil Dissertation, University of Lisbon, Catarina Gaspar.
Committee Member of MPhil Dissertation, University of Lisbon, Pedro Monteiro.
Cambridge Science Festival, Experimental Psychology Open Day.
Science Dissemination Activities
2010
Os Novos Contornos da Memória. Interview given to Pedro G. Lind e Maria José R.
Gomes on the program Ciência na UL – Série de Artigos “Um Investigador em
Portugal”. Published in Revista Tabú of Semanário Sol on the 1st of October of 2010.
2010
An apple but not a fruit: the neural correlates of superordinate knowledge. Talk given
at the 1st Workshop on Netwoking Sciences at University of Lisbon: Ciências em Rede.
Rectory of the University of Lisbon.
2010
Bater o pé sem bater a bota: como o cérebro entende o significado das palavras. Talk
given on the program Ciência na UL - Ciclo de Palestras “Ciência em Português”.
Science Museum of the University of Lisbon.
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