Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -1- Jorge Manuel Castelo Branco de Albuquerque Almeida Assistant Professor Faculdade 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 March 2008 Academic Employment Brain Voyager fmri Data analysis. Associação Nacional de Imagiologia Funcional Cerebral and Brain Innovation. Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal. 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 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.
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -2-2011 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.05.004. Impact Factor: 6.161
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -3- 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.
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -4- 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 Talks Behavioral and Brain Functions Frontiers in Language Sciences Frontiers in Perception Sciences Visual Neuroscience Almeida, J., Fintzi, A., & Mahon, B. (2013). Tool Manipulation Knowledge is Retrieved by way of the Ventral Visual Object Processing Pathway. 36 th 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.
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -5- 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.
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -6- 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 Perspectives University of Trento, Italy.
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -7- 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. 2006 2010 Fundação para a Ciencia e Tecnologia Doctoral Fellowship
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -8-2004 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).
Curriculum Vitae Jorge Almeida -9- University Service Spring 2012 Fall 2011 Committee Member, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal. Bruno Aragão, PhD. 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 goncalves@psi.uminho.pt