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Susana Silva is assistant researcher at the Neurocognition and Language Research Group, Faculty of Psychology at University of Porto. Inspired by her dual background in Music and Psychology, she became interested in the cognitive processes fundamental to both music and language, and in the similarities or differences between them. She has been investigating temporal processing, implicit learning and reading, using behavioral, eye-tracking and EEG methods. Keywords: Cognition; Timing; Learning; Language; Music; .
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Susana Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Susana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BB18-CDC1-228F
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2240-1828

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012
Concluded
 Doctoral programme in Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Regularity and implicit learning in sequence processing: electrophysiological and behavioral studies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with honors (highest classification)
2008/09 - 2008/11
Concluded
 Scientific internship, including EEG and Matlab training (Outros)
Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
2005
Concluded
 Master in Psychology of Music (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Parsing speech and parsing music: common mechanisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very good (highest classification)
2001
Concluded
 Music technologies and musical production (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
"NA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
1998
Concluded
 Psychology, deviant behaviour (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"NA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
1998
Concluded
 Conservatorium diploma (8 years) (Diploma de especialização)
Conservatório de Música do porto, Portugal
"Piano " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/05/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2015/07/01 - 2019/04/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2012/04/01 - 2014/12/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2007/09/01 - 2009/08/31 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009 - 2011 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Maiêutica Cooperativa de Ensino Superior CRL, Portugal
Maiêutica Cooperativa de Ensino Superior CRL, Portugal
2005 - 2005 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti, Portugal
Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti, Portugal
2001 - 2001 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Maiêutica Cooperativa de Ensino Superior CRL, Portugal
Maiêutica Cooperativa de Ensino Superior CRL, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1998 - 2002 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003 - 2011 Facilitator of music-based projects at schools Instituto Orff do Porto, Portugal
2001 - 2005 Piano accompanist A Pauta - music school, suzuki method, Portugal
1995 - 2004 Music teacher Escola de Jazz do Porto - music school, Portugal
1999 - 2002 Professional trainer (freelancer) Various, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - 2025 Atypical brain oscillations: a single answer to dyslexia?
CEECIND/04027/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015 - 2019 The imagery of beat-based time
FPCEUP-UID/PSI/00050/2013
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/12 - 2024/09/11 AIME-CS: Accessible, Interactive, Meaningful and Empowering Cognitive Stimulation
2022.04253.PTDC
10.54499/2022.04253.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03/29 - 2023/09/28 Time to read: Links between time perception and reading skills
PTDC/PSI-GER/5845/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019 - 2022 Music for the development of social skills: The impact of music training on socio-emocional processing
PTDC/PSI-GER/28274/2017
Researcher
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
Ongoing
2016 - 2019 Developmental dyslexia in adulthood: cognitive profiles, oculomotor behaviour and concurrent Reading predictors
PTDC/MHC-PCN/1175/2014
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Concluded
2014 - 2015 Do reading strategies modulate the word recognition potential (N170) and its hemispheric lateralization?
EXPL/MHC-PCN/0299/2013
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Concluded
2012 - 2014 Mechanisms of Implicit Learning: From Artificial Grammars to Dyslexia
PTDC/PSI-PCO/110734/2009
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2007 - 2010 PHRASING IN SPEECH PROSODY AND IN MUSIC: BEHAVIORAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES
PTDC/PSI/66641/2006
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2004 - 2005 Aesthetically resonant environments for the disabled
CITE 2004
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Silva, Susana; Petersson, Karl Magnus; Castro, São Luís. "Rhythm in the brain: Is music special?". In Neuroscience to neuropsychology: The study of the human brain, 29-54. Barranquilla, Colombia: Ediciones CUR, 2016.
    Published
  2. Petersson, K.M.; Forkstam, C.; Inácio, F.; Bramão, I.; Araújo, S.; Souza, A.C.; Silva, S (BB18-CDC1-228F); Castro, S.L.. "Artificial Language Learning". 2011.
Conference paper
  1. "Lexicality is processed before phonological grammar in 19-month-olds". Paper presented in Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD),, 2022.
  2. Silva, Susana; Ferreira-Santos, Fernando; Almeida, Pedro; Barbosa, Fernando; Marques-Teixeira, João. "Manifestações electrofisiológicas da percepção de frase musical [Electrophysiological markers of musical phrase perception].". Paper presented in VII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, 2010.
  3. Silva, Susana; Castro, São Luís. "Phrasing in music and in language: An open question in the cognitive sciences.". Paper presented in Performa 09, 2009.
  4. Silva, Susana; Castro, São Luís. "Understanding musical meaning: How does the listener parse music into phrases?". Paper presented in International Conference on Psychological, Philosophical, and Educational Issues in Musical Performance, 2005.
Conference poster
  1. "Early predictors of language outcomes: Prosody and gestures. June 9-11, San Sebastian, Spain.". Paper presented in Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD),, 2022.
  2. Silva, Susana. "Emotional Prosody Subprocesses: No ERP Evidence for Interdependency". Paper presented in PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY 62ND ANNUAL MEETING: A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, 2021.
  3. Silva, Susana. "Visual movement has no advantage over audition in duration perception". Paper presented in 16th APPE meeting, 2021.
  4. Silva, Susana. "Shared Neural Resources During the Discrimination of Speech and Music Timbre Information: An Electrophysiological Study. [Poster presentation].". Paper presented in IMPRS Conference 2020: Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Language Sciences, 2020.
  5. Silva, Susana. "Interpersonal synchronization protects against the antisocial outcomes of frustration.". Paper presented in 14th APPE Meeting, 2019.
  6. Silva, Susana. "Familiarity increases the advantage of a musical background in item memory". Paper presented in 14th APPE meeting, 2019.
  7. Silva, Susana. "Listening for emotions in a foreign language: Does the tonal vs. non-tonal difference matter?". Paper presented in I Literacy Summit of the European Literacy Network, 2018.
  8. Silva, Susana. "Generalized top-down influences in the segmentation of auditory input". Paper presented in 13th APPE meeting, 2018.
  9. Silva, Susana. "The impact of musical training on music-unrelated cognitive skills of first-graders". Paper presented in 13th APPE meeting, 2018.
  10. Silva, Susana. "Looking at faces: infants` quality of attachment predicts their visual responses towards different facial expressions.". Paper presented in International Attachment Conference, 2017.
  11. Silva, Susana. "Motivation and prosociality in mice". Paper presented in 12th APPE meeting, 2017.
  12. Silva, Susana. "Rhythmic skills in 5- to 6 years old children: The role of cognitive functions.". Paper presented in 12th APPE meeting, 2017.
  13. Hayashi, Takahiro; Yoshida, Takahiro. "Infants’ emotional processing: valence, arousal and mother-infant relationship.". Paper presented in 10th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, 2017.
  14. Silva, Susana. "EEG Responses to Auditory Vs. Visual Artificial Grammar Learning". Paper presented in Escan 3rd conference, 2016.
  15. Silva, Susana. "Pseudoword lexicalization via visual learning: An eye-tracking study.". Paper presented in 11th APPE meeting, 2016.
  16. Silva, Susana. "Study of attentional components in social anxiety: eye-tracking study.". Paper presented in 10th APPE meeting, 2015.
  17. Silva, Susana. "Attentional Bias in SA participants: eye-tracking study". Paper presented in 10th APPE meeting, 2015.
  18. Silva, Susana. "Implicit Structured Sequence Learning: An EEG Study of the Structural Mere-Exposure Effect.". Paper presented in SNL annual meeting, 2014.
  19. Silva, Susana. "Familiarity and parallel processing in serial word naming.". Paper presented in 9th APPE meeting, 2014.
  20. Silva, Susana. "Keep that in mind: Late Event-Related Potentials at the boundary offset reflect integrative processing.". Paper presented in 6th APPE meeting, 2011.
  21. Silva, Susana. "Effects of musical expertise on EEG responses to the segmentation of natural and purely prosodic speech.". Paper presented in 6th APPE meeting, 2011.
  22. Silva, Susana. "The perception of musical phrases by musicians.". Paper presented in INS mid-year meeting, 2009.
Journal article
  1. Joana L. Gonçalves; Marina Fuertes; Susana Silva; Pedro Lopes-dos-Santos; Fernando Ferreira-Santos. "Differential effects of attachment security on visual fixation to facial expressions of emotion in 14-month-old infants: an eye-tracking study". Frontiers in Psychology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1302657.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1302657
  2. Folia, Vasiliki; Liampas, Ioannis; Siokas, Vasileios; Silva, Susana; Ntanasi, Eva; Yannakoulia, Mary; Sakka, Paraskevi; et al. "Language performance as a prognostic factor for developing Alzheimer’s clinical syndrome and mild cognitive impairment: Results from the population-based HELIAD cohort". Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29 5 (2023): 450-458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617722000376.
    Published • 10.1017/s1355617722000376
  3. Silva, Susana; Inácio, Filomena; Rocha e Sousa, Daniel; Gaspar, Nuno; Folia, Vasiliki; Petersson, Karl Magnus. "Formal language hierarchy reflects different levels of cognitive complexity.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 49 4 (2023): 642-660. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001182.
    10.1037/xlm0001182
  4. Dybowski, Karol; Raczka, Barbara; Postarnak, Svetlana; Castro, São Luís; Silva, Susana. "Interpersonal Synchronization Protects Against the Antisocial Outcomes of Frustration". Psychological Reports (2023): 003329412110547. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00332941211054771.
    10.1177/00332941211054771
  5. Ana Rita Batista; Susana Silva; Leonor Lencastre; Marina Prista Guerra. "Biopsychosocial Correlates of Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114431.
    10.3390/ijerph192114431
  6. Sousa, José; Martins, Marta; Torres, Nathércia; Castro, São Luís; Silva, Susana. "Rhythm but not melody processing helps reading via phonological awareness and phonological memory". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15596-7.
    10.1038/s41598-022-15596-7
  7. Carvalho, Mariana; Cera, Nicoletta; Silva, Susana. "The “Ifs” and “Hows” of the Role of Music on the Implementation of Emotional Regulation Strategies". Behavioral Sciences 12 6 (2022): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12060199.
    10.3390/bs12060199
  8. Kaouther Ardhaoui; Marina Serra Lemos; Susana Silva. "Effects of new teaching approaches on motivation and achievement in higher education applied chemistry courses: A case study in Tunisia". Education for Chemical Engineers 36 (2021): 160-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2021.05.004.
    10.1016/j.ece.2021.05.004
  9. Silva, Susana. "Look at me: The relation between empathy and fixation on the emotional eye-region in low vs. high social anxiety". Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101610.
    10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101610
  10. Postarnak, Svetlana; Castro, São Luís; Silva, Susana. "The role of linguistic prosody in the responses to recited poetry". Scientific Study of Literature 10 2 (2020): 228-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19019.pos.
    10.1075/ssol.19019.pos
  11. Silva, Susana. "The Mozart Effect on the Episodic Memory of Healthy Adults Is Null, but Low-Functioning Older Adults May Be an Exception". Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.538194.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2020.538194
  12. Costa, Ana Maria; Alves, Rui; Castro, São Luís; Vicente, Selene; Silva, Susana. "Exploring the Effects of Guided vs. Unguided Art Therapy Methods". Behavioral Sciences 10 3 (2020): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10030065.
    10.3390/bs10030065
  13. Silva, Susana; Castro, São Luís. "Structural meter perception is pre-attentive". Neuropsychologia 133 (2019): 107184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107184.
    10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107184
  14. Susana Silva; Carolina Dias; São Luís Castro. "Domain-Specific Expectations in Music Segmentation". Brain Sciences (2019): https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9070169.
    10.3390/brainsci9070169
  15. Nathércia L. Torres; Carlos dos Santos Luiz; São Luís Castro; Susana Silva. "The Effects of Visual Movement on Beat-Based vs. Duration-Based Temporal Perception". Timing & Time Perception 7 2 (2019): 168-187. https://doi.org/10.1163%2F22134468-20191141.
    10.1163/22134468-20191141
  16. Susana Rodrigues; Fernando Martins; Susana Silva; Luis M. T. Jesus; Sara Finley. "/l/ velarisation as a continuum". PLOS ONE 14 3 (2019): e0213392-e0213392. https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0213392.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0213392
  17. Susana Silva; Marina Vigário; Barbara Leone Fernandez; Rita Jerónimo; Kai Alter; Sónia Frota. "The Sense of Sounds: Brain Responses to Phonotactic Frequency, Phonological Grammar and Lexical Meaning". Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpsyg.2019.00681.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00681
  18. Marta Martins; Susana Silva; São Luís Castro. "Perceiving Rhythmic Repetition and Change Across Development: Effects of Concurrent Pitch". Empirical Studies of the Arts (2019): https://doi.org/10.1177/0276237418822895.
    10.1177/0276237418822895
  19. Silva, Susana; Castro, São Luís. "Meter for what? Meter strength affects ordinal but not temporal learning". Cogent Psychology 5 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2018.1537062.
    10.1080/23311908.2018.1537062
  20. Susana Silva; Vasiliki Folia; Filomena Inácio; São Luís Castro; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Modality effects in implicit artificial grammar learning: An EEG study". Brain Research 1687 (2018): 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2018.02.020.
    10.1016/j.brainres.2018.02.020
  21. Silva, Susana; Castro, São Luís. "The time will come: Evidence for an eye-audiation span in silent music reading". Psychology of Music 47 4 (2018): 504-520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735618765302.
    10.1177/0305735618765302
  22. Susana Silva; Filomena Inácio; Vasiliki Folia; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Eye movements in implicit artificial grammar learning.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (2017): https://doi.org/10.1037%2Fxlm0000350.
    10.1037/xlm0000350
  23. Silva, S.; Petersson, K.M.; Castro, S.L.. "The effects of ordinal load on incidental temporal learning". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 70 4 (2017): 664-674. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84961217683&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/17470218.2016.1146909
  24. Silva, Susana. "Eye-Tracking Evidence of a Maintenance Bias in Social Anxiety". Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2017): 1–18-1–18.
    10.1017/S1352465817000418
  25. Silva, Susana. "O potencial das atividades de sonorização de cinema na inclusão de crianças vulneráveis: Um estudo de caso múltiplo [Fostering the inclusion of vulnerable children through soundtrack composition activities: A multiple case study]". Educação, Sociedade & Culturas 50 (2017): 117-195. https://www.fpce.up.pt/ciie/sites/default/files/ESC50_Susana.pdf.
    Published
  26. Silva, Susana. "The P600 in Implicit Artificial Grammar Learning". Cognitive Science (2016): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12343/abstract.
    10.1111/cogs.12343
  27. Silva, S.; Castro, S.L.. "Moving stimuli facilitate synchronization but not temporal perception". Frontiers in Psychology 7 NOV (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85006379680&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01798
  28. Silva, S.; Reis, A.; Casaca, L.; Petersson, K.M.; Faísca, L.. "When the eyes no longer lead: Familiarity and length effects on eye-voice span". Frontiers in Psychology 7 NOV (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85006266167&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01720
  29. Susana Silva; Luís Faísca; Susana Araújo; Luis Casaca; Loide Carvalho; Karl Magnus Petersson; Alexandra Reis. "Too little or too much? Parafoveal preview benefits and parafoveal load costs in dyslexic adults". Ann. of Dyslexia (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11881-015-0113-z.
    10.1007/s11881-015-0113-z
  30. Silva S; Branco P; Barbosa F; Marques-Teixeira J; Petersson KM; Castro SL. "Musical phrase boundaries, wrap-up and the closure positive shift.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25139422.
    10.1016/j.brainres.2014.08.025
  31. Silva S; Barbosa F; Marques-Teixeira J; Petersson KM; Castro SL. "You know when: event-related potentials and theta/beta power indicate boundary prediction in music.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24738537.
    10.1142/S0219635214500022
  32. Lopes-dos-Santos, P.; Teixeira, L.M.; Silva, S.; Azeredo, M.; Barbosa, M.. "Exploring interpersonal dynamics between adults and motor disabled children within aesthetic resonant environments". International Journal on Disability and Human Development 5 2 (2006): 133-139. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33947190431&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Online resource
  1. Attention on Structural Meter vs. Surface Meter (Stimulus set, data set and analysis). 2021. https://osf.io/94j5v/.
  2. Visual Movement Impairs Duration Discrimination at Short Base Lengths (Data set and analysis). 2021. https://osf.io/dzphx/.
  3. Music and emotional regulation (Data set). 2021. https://osf.io/db4qh/.
  4. EmoLexPros: Supplementary material (Stimulus set, data set and analysis). 2021. https://osf.io/t9z6g/.
  5. Non-adjacent dependencies (Stimulus set, data set and analysis). 2021. https://osf.io/5n7ag/.
  6. Synchronization and Prosociality (Stimulus set, data set and analysis). 2020. https://osf.io/nmvb4/.
Preprint
  1. Catronas, Dinis; de Sousa Gomes, Rui Pedro; Silva, Susana. "The effects of handwriting practice on literacy skills beyond visual graph recognition: A systematic review". 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4zxpb.
    10.31234/osf.io/4zxpb
Website
  1. Silva, Susana. Time2Read project - Instagram. 2022. https://www.instagram.com/time2readresearch/.
  2. Silva, Susana. Time2read project - facebook. 2022. https://www.facebook.com/Time2Read-102235692360646.
  3. Silva, Susana. Time2read project - youtube. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTBw8jNpSIlTaaAfTRnFEmQ.
  4. Silva, Susana. CerUp - an online Stimulation Programme. 2021. https://estimulacerup.wixsite.com/play/atividades.