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Letters directionality effects on the inhibition of mirror generalization in th...
Silva, Maria Veiga Araújo Barroso; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Moura, Ana Duarte Campos; Soares, Ana PaulaPrevious studies have shown that inhibiting the mirror generalization mechanism in recognizing letters/words containing reversible and non-reversible letters has a right-asymmetry bias. In this paper, we analysed for the first time whether this bias can also be observed in the visual recognition of objects as a “collateral” effect of literacy on cognition. To test this, we asked participants to decide whether p...
Speech stream composition affects statistical learning: Behavioral and neural e...
Soares, Ana Paula; Paiva, Dario; Lema, Alberto; Pereira, Diana R.; Rodrigues, Ana Cláudia; Oliveira, Helena MendesStatistical learning (SL), the ability to extract patterns from the environment, has been assumed to play a central role in whole cognition, particularly in language acquisition. Evidence has been gathered, however, from behavioral experiments relying on simplified artificial languages, raising doubts on the generalizability of these results to natural contexts. Here, we tested if SL is affected by the composit...
“Montes de sentidos”: Uma abordagem multidimensional às expressões metafóricas
Mateus, Inês Jesus Rodrigues; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Teixeira, José; Soares, Ana PaulaDe acordo com a Teoria das Metáforas Concetuais (TMC), metáforas concetuais (MC) definem-se como mecanismos que estruturam e mapeiam conceitos abstratos através de noções concretas, estando presentes na linguagem através de expressões metafóricas (e.g., a MC felicidade é em cima está presente no discurso diário através de expressões metafóricas como “estar em alta”). Apesar da pertinência desta teoria, a invest...
Auditory N1, N2, and MMN to pure-tone and consonant–vowel stimuli in developmen...
Tomé, David; Pereira, Ilídio; Vieira, Maria Celeste; Soares, Ana Paula; Barbosa, FernandoBenign rolandic epilepsy or benign epilepsy in childhood with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) and developmental dyslexia (DD) are two of the most studied disorders in childhood. Despite decades of research, the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these disorders are largely unknown. Here, we use auditory event-related potentials (AERPs) to shed light on these issues, since several authors have reported the...
"Heaps of meanings": A multidimensional approach to metaphorical expressions
Mateus, Inês; Mendes Oliveira, Helena; Teixeira, José; Soares, Ana PaulaIn the public discourse, if a manager is described as being above their employees or a queen is referred to as “her royal highness”, we tend to understand both expressions as cues of powerful positions, disregarding the explicit verticality of their meaning. Similarly, if a friend or family member calls to confess to a lie and goes on to say they feel lighter, we do not genuinely assume they have lost weight si...
RESINA NATURAL EM PORTUGAL – DESAFIOS ESTRATÉGICOS
Soares, Ana Paula; Ribeiro, Carla; Ribeiro, Marco; Silva, Maria EmíliaNa década de 70 do século XX, Portugal era dos maiores produtores mundiais de resina natural. A concorrência de países como a China e o Brasil e a falta de mão-de-obra nacional, resultaram na diminuição da atividade de exploração com um impacto significativo na indústria portuguesa, que passou a ser dependente da importação de resina. No entanto, sendo a resina natural um recurso renovável e uma alternativa aos...
The representation and processing of synonyms and translations: a masked primin...
Tomaz, Ângela; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Soares, Ana Paula; Casalis, Severine; Comesaña, MontserratAims/Objectives: According to Multilink, words from the first (L1) and (L2) second languages share a common store and their access is non-selective. Thus, the presentation of a target word activates in parallel lexical candidates from both languages that share form and semantic overlap. The degree of words' activation also depends on their resting levels of activation (words that are more used have a higher res...
Is there an early morphological decomposition during L2 lexical access? A meta-...
Fernandes, Ana Isabel; Luna, Karlos; Soares, Ana Paula; Comesaña, MontserratA considerable body of experimental data currently exists on the representation and processing of derived words. However, no theoretical account has led to a consensus so far, due in part to inconsistencies in empirical results which show either the presence or the absence of signs of early morphological decomposition during lexical access. In this paper, we present the results of a meta-analysis that sought to...
As trials go by: Effects of 2-AFC item repetition on statistical learning perfo...
Soares, Ana Paula; Franca, Tiago; Gutierrez-Dominguez, Francisco-Javier; Sousa, Ines; Oliveira, Helena MendesOne of the most popular tasks used to test statistical learning (SL) involves asking participants to identify which of two stimuli, a triplet presented during the previous familiarization phase versus a new sequence made of the same stimuli never presented together, is more familiar based on the stream presented before, that is, to perform a two-alternative forced-choice (2-AFC) task. Despite the widespread use...
Manual de boas práticas para a gestão sustentável de fatores de produção
Soares, Ana Paula; Boteta, Luis; Fabião, Marta; Tomaz, Alexandra; Palma, Patrícia; Guerreiro, Isabel; Pereira, Maria MargaridaO presente Manual de Boas Práticas para a Gestão Sustentável de Fatores de Produção, foi desenvolvido no âmbito do grupo operacional FitoFarmGest e pretende constituir um contributo na divulgação de práticas agrícolas que promovam o aumento da sustentabilidade produtiva e ambiental da agricultura. O desenvolvimento de práticas agrícolas equilibradas, com gestão eficiente de recursos, permitirá aos agricultores ...