Luísa Superbia Guimarães- Doctor of Psychology
- Lecturer at University of Leeds
Luísa Superbia Guimarães
- Doctor of Psychology
- Lecturer at University of Leeds
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Introduction
Current institution
Additional affiliations
March 2017 - February 2019
October 2022 - March 2024
August 2018 - August 2019
Position
- Lecturer (fixed-term)
Description
- Lecturer (fixed-term) of the courses "Teorias Psicobiológicas I" (60 hours) and "Teorias Psicobiológicas II" (60 hours) for the BSc. in Psychology. Courses focused on the neurobiology of emotions and evolutionary aspects of human behaviour.
Education
September 2019 - September 2022
February 2017 - March 2019
March 2012 - February 2017
Publications
Publications (17)
Researchers have been asking the question of what drives the development of working memory (WM) during childhood for decades. This question is particularly challenging because so many aspects of cognition develop with age that it is difficult to disentangle them and find out which factors are causal or fundamental. In this review, we first prepare...
Children’s ability to use semantic elaboration to memorize novel associations of items greatly improves during the elementary school years. Yet, it is unclear whether this improvement contributes to the development of serial order memory. Here we investigated the role of semantic elaboration in the development of immediate memory for lists of objec...
Working memory has been one of the most important topics in cognitive psychology since the classic chapter published by Baddeley and Hitch (1974) 50 years ago. In this article, we present three influential theoretical models in the literature since then: the multicomponent model, the time-based resource sharing (TBRS) model, and the embedded-proces...
Considerable recent research in neurosciences has dealt with the topic of consciousness, even though there is still disagreement about how to identify and classify conscious states. Recent behavioral work on the topic also exists. We survey recent behavioral and neuroscientific literature with the aims of commenting on strengths and weaknesses of t...
Children and adolescents with attentional-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) present deficits in working memory (WM), but accounts for this phenomenon are still lacking. In this study, we used two variations of a complex-span task to test whether a specific WM mechanism, attentional refreshing, causes these deficits. Attentional refreshing is a...
Children with attentional-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impairments in working memory (WM) functioning. Impaired orienting of visual attention during encoding and/or maintenance is hypothesized as the cause of poor performance in visuospatial WM in 10-to-16-year-olds. We used a color-recognition task with valid location cues before enc...
Working memory has been one of the most important topics in cognitive psychology since the classic chapter published by Baddeley and Hitch (1974) 50 years ago. In this article, we present three influential theoretical models in the literature since then: the multicomponent model, the time-based resource sharing (TBRS) model, and the embedded-proces...
Commercial cognitive training programs have been proposed as a non-pharmacological treatment of ADHD-related outcomes, such as learning difficulties and academic achievement. Most of these programs focus on working memory, an essential cognitive ability sustaining nearly every conscious mental activity. In this article, we present and summarize the...
The literature suggests that disturbances in working memory and in inhibitory control are plausible markers for the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We review data on the functioning of these two basic psychological processes in patients with ADHD, by integrating results from experimental, neuropsychological and neurofunctional rese...
Previous findings suggest a right hemispheric contribution to body image distortions only in women. Here we set out to replicate this finding and investigate whether the sex of the body image would play a role in this lateralization. We report here two experiments of body size estimation using the divided visual field methodology. In Experiment 1 w...
The student or researcher beginning his/her studies in Cognitive Psychology usually learns about the functioning of various memory systems (e.g. declarative/explicit memory and non-declarative/implicit memory, episodic memory, semantic memory, working memory, procedural memory), but does not have access to the detailed scientific process of describ...
Este trabalho foi desenvolvido durante uma experiência docente em uma disciplina de graduação em uma universidade pública do interior paulista. A primeira autora atuou como docente na disciplina durante um semestre, enquanto o segundo autor a auxiliou no planejamento dos materiais didáticos adaptados. A presença de um estudante com perda visual par...
Representações negativas da imagem corporal são uma característica central dos transtornos alimentares. A insatisfação corporal entre mulheres pode ser um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento dessas patologias, que atingem apenas 1 homem a cada 10 mulheres atingidas. Respostas cerebrais lateralizadas a imagens de manequins tridimensionais humanos...
In the retroactive cueing paradigm, a cue is given retrospectively to the participants before the probe's onset and after the retention interval, when the stimuli are no longer available to perception. The retro-cues are acknoledged to enahnce performace in a similar way as predictive cues, which demonstrate that attention can be allocated not only...
We investigate the retrieval of visual characteristics (color, form) of an object stored in visual working memory. Retro-cues based on location or on memorized characteristics were presented in a visual recognition task. Location retro-cues pointed out the place where the to be recognized feature (color or form) was at the memorized scene; color re...
