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I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1980. I have a BA in Psychology, concentration in Social Cognition (Supervisor Prof. Leonel Garcia-Marques), from the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education - University of Lisbon. I started working at the Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab—Harvard University—in November 2003, under the direct supervision of Prof. Alfonso Caramazza. In 2006 I started my PhD, working with Prof. Ken Nakayama at the Harvard University Vision Sciences Lab.
I am interested on how Dorsal and Ventral Visual Pathways interact, and how these visual pathways shape the principles which govern semantic memory organization, both cross-domain and within-domain. I am studying the relationship between manipulation, action, functional properties, and conceptual knowledge about tools, at an experimental, and neuropsychological level.
I have also been working on the relationship between semantic memory models and person memory-social cognition models, and on variables that affect lexical access and studying the constraining effects they have on theoretical models of lexical access.
Outside the laboratory, I dedicate my free time to the ethnic culinary arts. |
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Jorge Castelo Branco Almeida |
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Graduate Student Department of Psychology—Harvard University |
