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Education:
2006 – present PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2006 – 2008 AM, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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
1998-2003 Licenciatura (BA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis title: “Cognitive and Neural Organization of Knowledge about Con- specifics”. Supervision of Prof. Leonel Garcia Marques.
Relevant Work Experience:
2006 – present. Graduate student working under the supervision of Prof. Alfonso Caramazza. Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
2006 – present. Graduate student working under the supervision of Prof. 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 Prof. 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 Prof. Glyn Humphreys. Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom.
1999 – 2002 Research Assistant for Prof. Paulo Ventura. Experimental Psychology Laboratory, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Lisbon, Portugal.
Honors And Awards
2006 – present Fundação para a Ciencia e Tecnologia’s Doctoral Fellowship
2004 – 2006 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’s Research Fellowship, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Dr. Alfonso Caramazza.
Ad Hoc Reviewing
Journals Cognitive Neuropsychology
Publications
2008
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Nakayama, K., and Caramazza, A. (2008). Unconscious processing dissociates along categoricallines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 105(39) : 15214 -15218, doi:10.1073 pnas.0805867105/
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Categorical priming: using continuous flash suppression in an object categorization task [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):840, 840a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/840/, doi:10.1167/8.6.840.
2007
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. Almeida, J. (2007). The semantic/episodic distinction: the case for social information processing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 842-849. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.10.002. Almeida, J., Mahon, B., & Caramazza, A. (2007). Motor facilitation under binocular rivalry: the effect of suppressed motor affordances [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):430, 430a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/430/, doi:10.1167/7.9.430.
2006
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. 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.
In preparation
Almeida, J., Finkbeiner, M., Janssen, N. & Caramazza, A. (in prep). Reverse frequency effects: being the fastest will slow you down. Unpublished manuscript. Almeida, J., Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (in prep). Lateralization of face processing: extinguishing the ipsilateral face. Unpublished manuscript. Almeida, J., Mahon, B., & Caramazza, A. (in prep). Motor facilitation under binocular rivalry: the effect of suppressed motor affordances. Unpublished manuscript. Vespignani, F., Almeida, J., Caramazza, A. (in prep). Costs and benefits of picture naming. Unpublished manuscript.
Talks
2008
Almeida, J. Category-Specific Priming for Binocular Suppressed Images. Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Second year talk for PhD program. May 6, 2008. Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Pajtas, P.E., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A.(2008).Category-Specific Priming for Binocularly Suppressed Images. Paper presented at 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. Paper presented at VSS — Vision Sciences Society, 8th Annual meeting Naples, FL.
Posters
2008 Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Pajtas, P.E., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A.(2008).Category-Specific Priming for Binocularly Suppressed Images. Poster and paper presented at CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives—University of Trento.
2007
Almeida, J., Mahon, B., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2007). Motor effects under binocular rivalry: kinematic analysis of object affordances. Poster presented at CAOS — Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives—University of Trento. Almeida, J., Mahon, B. & Caramazza, A. (2007). Motor facilitation under binocular rivalry: the effect of suppressed motor affordances. Poster presented at VSS — Vision Sciences Society, 7th Annual meeting Sarasota.
2003
Garcia-Marques, L., Jerónimo, R., Almeida, J., & Veríssimo, J. (September, 2003). A implicação do BAS e FAS nos componentes associativo e monitor no paradigma DRM (The implications of BAS and FAS on the associative and monitor components of the DRM paradigm). Paper presented on the Fifth National Symposium on Psychological research – Portuguese Psychologist Association, Lisbon. Palma-Oliveira, J., Almeida, J., & Borges, G. (September, 2003). Prognósticos só no fim do jogo...se ao menos soubéssemos quem joga. (Prognostics? Only when the game is over … if we at least knew who is playing). Paper presented on the Fifth National Symposium on Psychological research – Portuguese Psychologist Association, Lisbon. |
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Jorge Castelo Branco Almeida |
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Graduate Student Department of Psychology—Harvard University |
