This study examined the effects of item typicality (typical vs. atypical), encoding type (categorical vs. perceptual), and neurodivergence (autistic vs. neurotypical male adults) on memory discrimination and associated neuronal patterns. Despite similar overall memory discrimination performance between groups, analyses of event-related potentials revealed that neurotypicals displayed an early ERP effect, sugges...
This paper presents a series of studies examining how soundscapes can convey the abstract and multidimensional concept of sustainability. A pilot study identified sensory and affective descriptors linked to sustainability (e.g., natural, responsible), which were then used to determine psychoacoustic properties (e.g., pitch, consonance) capable of communicating these descriptors. Based on these properties, ten i...
This research examines how valence, arousal, and linguistic co-occurrence patterns influence shape-emotion associations. Across three studies, we tested whether positive and negative words are associated with rounded and sharp shapes, respectively, and whether a semantic analysis of language (Word2Vec) can predict these associations. Studies 1A and 1B focused primarily on valence, using a lexical decision task ...
This study investigates the effect of music on the evaluation of drinks presented unmasked (in open cups) or masked (in closed cups with opaque lids). Participants tasted five drink samples (varying in color and flavor) while listening to a sweet (SW) and a non-sweet (NS) soundtrack (within participants). Listening to the SW (vs. NS) soundtrack significantly increased the reported sweetness of drinks, whereas t...
Memory is a reconstructive process that is prone to intrusions and distortions. These processes can be amplified by the emergence and propagation of false information in the social environment. While the acceptance of misinformation is well documented in individual memory tasks, the production of false memories in social interaction contexts presents mixed findings. One factor that may contribute to these incon...
A eletroencefalografia é uma técnica funcional e (relativamente) não invasiva de aferição da atividade cerebral com recurso ao equipamento de eletroencefalograma (EEG). Desenvolvida por Hans Berger em 1929, esta técnica permite registar as flutuações de voltagem associadas à dinâmica elétrica natural das diversas populações de neurónios no nosso cérebro. Baseia-se, portanto, nas mudanças de tensão (medida em vo...
Interoception is critical to health regulation and is often disrupted in individuals with chronic pain (ICPs). Interoceptive sensibility (IS)—the self-reported experience and relationship toward internal states—includes skills such as sensing, interpreting, and using bodily information for self-regulation. Current studies on IS and chronic pain (CP) adjustment are scarce, and how the interplay between different...
The present research shows that language comprehenders are sensitive to multiple states of target and semantically related objects. In Experiments 1 to 2B, participants (total N = 273) read sentences that either implied a minimal change of an object’s state (e.g., “Jane chose a mango”) or a substantial change (e.g., “Jane stepped on a mango”) and then verified whether a subsequently pictured object was mentione...
Memory is a reconstructive process that is prone to intrusions and distortions. These processes can be amplified by the emergence and propagation of false information in the social environment. While the acceptance of misinformation is well documented in individual memory tasks, the production of false memories in social interaction contexts presents mixed findings. One factor that may contribute to these incon...
Sounds are important sensory cues for food perception and acceptance. We developed and validated a large-scale database of kitchen and food sounds (180 stimuli) capturing different stages of preparing, cooking, serving, and/or consuming foods and beverages and sounds of packaging, kitchen utensils, and appliances. Each sound was evaluated across nine subjective evaluative dimensions (random order), including st...