Eunice Gomes Fernandes (201D-241A-4A21)

Curriculum Vitae

Eunice Gomes Fernandes

Researcher in Cognitive Psychology / Psycholinguistics. In 2015 I was awarded my PhD in Cognitive Science (University of Lisbon). I carried my research at the Psycholinguistics Lab from Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, supervised by Prof. Armanda Costa. The PhD research focused on syntactic priming and I used methods such as self-paced reading and eye-tracking. During the PhD I was a visiting student at the University of Edinburgh, where I met Prof. Holly Branigan and Prof. Moreno Coco, who became my co-supervisors. As a post-doctoral researcher, I worked in Paris-Diderot University - France (2016) with Prof. Barbara Hemforth in a project investigating cross-linguistic pronoun resolution. In 2017 and 2018 I continued doing research at the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with Miguel Borges and Prof. Moreno Coco, on the topics of Ageing and Visual Processing. In 2109 and 2020 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen - UK, where I integrated the project Social Attention and Ageing, led by Professors Louise Phillips and Ben Tatler. We examined gaze following in younger and older adults in a set of eye-tracking experiments. Between 2021 and 2024 I was at the University of Agder, Norway. The Fitness, Ageing and Bilingualism study (https://www.fab-study.com/about-the-project/), led by Prof. Linda Wheeldon, examined age-differences and bilingualism effects in language and cognitive function, and further investigated how these functions are affected by physical fitness, through the implementation of a physical exercise intervention. I am currently an auxiliar researcher at University of Minho, where I will develop a project on the intersection between social attention and language comprehension in young and older adults, as well as mono- and bilingual populations. My research focuses on Psycholinguistics (language comprehension and production, bilingualism) but extends to other areas of Human Cognition like Ageing, Visual Attention, Social Attention. I have worked with several behavioural techniques, including extensive use of eye-tracking, and I am currently acquiring new skills in the EEG technique to obtain physiological measures indexing human cognitive processing.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Eunice Gomes Fernandes

Citation names

Fernandes, Eunice G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 201D-241A-4A21
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1448-3256

Email addresses

e.fernandes1977@gmail.com (Professional)
eunice.fernandes@psi.uminho.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

968023778 (Professional)

Websites

https://www.fab-study.com/about-the-project/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011/09/01 - 2015/10/08 Concluded	Cognitive Science (Doutoramento) Major in Psycholinguistics Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Syntactic Priming as a Window into the Representational and Experiential Basis of Syntactic Processing in Comprehension. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinção e louvor
2008/09/01 - 2009/09/30 Concluded	Prospectiva, Estratégia e Inovação (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2003/09/01 - 2007/02/02 Concluded	Literatura Portuguesa (Mestrado) Major in Literatura Portuguesa Medieval Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Aspectos da escrita no Livro da Montaria" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
1998/09/01 - 2002/07/22 Concluded	Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/01/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universitetet i Agder, Norway

2019/01/14 - 2020/12/31	Postdoc (Research)	University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, United Kingdom
	University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, United Kingdom
2017/01/01 - 2018/12/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31	Postdoc (Research)	Université Paris Descartes, France
	Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, France

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2011/09 - 2015/08	Syntactic Priming as a Window into the Representational and Experiential Basis of Syntactic Processing in Comprehension SFRH/BD/72307/2010	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/01/01 - Current	Fitness, Ageing and Bilingualism (FAB): The benefits of regular exercise and bilingualism for language abilities in healthy aging. 300030 Post-doc Fellow Universitetet i Agder, Norway Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Norway	Norges forskningsråd Ongoing
2019/01/14 - 2020/12/31	Social Attention and Ageing ES/P005330/1 Post-doc Fellow University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, United Kingdom	Economic and Social Research Council Concluded
2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31	Meaning and Understanding across Languages ANR-10-LABX-0083 Post-doc Fellow Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, France	Agence nationale de la recherche Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Fernandes, Eunice G.; Katrien Segaert; Foyzul Rahman; Prof. Allison Wetterlin; Prof. Linda Wheeldon. "Independent effects of ageing and bilingualism on language processing". Paper presented in AMLaP 29, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, 2023. Submitted Sara Spotorno; Adeel Khalid; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Tatler, Benjamin W.. "Influence of gaze cueing and semantic violations on visual memory and metamemory for real-world scenes: A study of young and older adults". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, Paphos, 2023. Accepted
Conference paper	Fernandes, Eunice; Moreno I. Coco; Maria Armanda Martins da Costa. "Bridging Mechanisms of Reading, Viewing and Working Memory during Attachment Resolution of Ambiguous Relative Clauses.". Paper presented in EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, 2015. Published
Conference poster	Louise Phillips; Gillian Slessor; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Ben Tatler. Corresponding author: Louise Phillips. "Age differences in the nature of gaze cueing.". Paper presented in 6th International Conference Aging & Cognition 2021, 2021. Louise Phillips; Gillian Slessor; Eunice G. Fernandes; Ben Tatler. "Older and younger adults show different patterns of following gaze cues in real and schematic faces". Paper presented in Experimental Psychology Society meeting, 2021. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Paula Luegi. "Statistical Learning in Pronoun Resolution". Paper presented in Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, 2019. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Louise Phillips; Gillian Slessor; Chris Luke; Ben Tatler; Teodor Nikolov. "Effects of age and type of face on the time course of gaze cueing effects.". Paper presented in International Convention of Psychological Science., 2019. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Paula Luegi; Eduardo Correa Soares; Israel de la Fuente; Barbara Hemforth. "How to Turn Brazilians into Europeans: Global and Local Exposure Effects on Co-Reference in European and Brazilian Portuguese". Paper presented in Arquitectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2016. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Paula Luegi; Eduardo Correa Soares; Israel de la Fuente; Barbara Hemforth. "Relative Clause-attachment in European (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP): Effects of verb type, tense and variety". Paper presented in Arquitectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2016. Fernandes, Eunice G.; Moreno I. Coco; Holly P. Branigan. "Saturating the anticipatory mechanisms of syntactic priming during situated language understanding". Paper presented in Arquitectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2014.
Journal article	Fernandes, Eunice G.; Segaert, Katrien; Rahman, Foyzul; Wetterlin, Allison; Wheeldon, Linda. "Bilingualism and ageing independently impact on language processing: evidence from comprehension and production". Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (2024): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728924000245. Published • 10.1017/s1366728924000245 Eunice G. Fernandes; Katrien Segaert; Foyzul Rahman; Allison Wetterlin; Linda Wheeldon. "Bilingualism and ageing independently impact on language processing: evidence from comprehension and production". Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (2024): https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000245. 10.1017/S1366728924000245 Roksana Markiewicz; Foyzul Rahman; Eunice G. Fernandes; Rupali Limachya; Allison Wetterlin; Linda Wheeldon; Katrien Segaert. "Effects of healthy ageing and bilingualism on attention networks". Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (2024): https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000154. 10.1017/S1366728924000154 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Tatler, Benjamin W.; Slessor, Gillian; Phillips, Louise H.. "Age Differences in Gaze Following: Older Adults Follow Gaze More than Younger Adults When free-viewing Scenes". Experimental Aging Research (2022): 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361073x.2022.2156760. Published • 10.1080/0361073x.2022.2156760 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Phillips, Louise H.; Slessor, Gillian; Tatler, Benjamin W.. "The interplay between gaze and consistency in scene viewing: Evidence from visual search by young and older adults". Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics 83 5 (2021): 1954-1970. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02242-z. Published • 10.3758/s13414-021-02242-z Borges, Miguel T.; Fernandes, Eunice G.; Coco, Moreno I.. "Age-related differences during visual search: the role of contextual expectations and cognitive control mechanisms". Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition (2019): 1-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2019.1632256. Published • 10.1080/13825585.2019.1632256 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Coco, Moreno I.; Branigan, Holly P.. "When eye fixation might not reflect online ambiguity resolution in the visual-world paradigm: structural priming following multiple primes in Portuguese". Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 3 S1 (2019): 65-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00021-9. Published • 10.1007/s41809-019-00021-9 Fernandes, Eunice G.; Luegi, Paula; Correa Soares, Eduardo; de la Fuente, Israel; Hemforth, Barbara. "Adaptation in pronoun resolution: Evidence from Brazilian and European Portuguese.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 44 12 (2018): 1986-2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000569. Published • 10.1037/xlm0000569

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/04/27	Language processing in Ageing and Bilingualism: Evidence from the Fitness, Ageing and Bilingualism project.	AcqVA lunch meeting AcqVA Aurora Research centre, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø, Norway)
2019/08/21	Perceptual complexity of face stimuli modulates gaze following in old age.	European Conference on Eye Movements (Alicante, Spain)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/06/01 - Current	Transfer of speech individual differences from L1 to L2 Co-supervisor of Øystein Søren Østerhus	Master (Master) Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Norway
2020/01/06 - 2020/12/31	Pronoun resolution in Mandarin Chinese and European Portuguese Co-supervisor of Conor Gerard McCullough	Psychology (Degree) University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, United Kingdom

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2017/08/28 - 2017/09/01	Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology Workshop	Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology Universität Potsdam, Germany
2010/10/14 - 2010/10/15	1st International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion. Conference	1st International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion. Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/19	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology	Sage
2021/04/20 - 2021/04/20	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (0278-7393)	Aaron S. Benjamin
2021/02/03 - 2021/02/03	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (0278-7393)	Aaron S. Benjamin
2020/10/13 - 2020/10/13	Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (2327-379)	Taylor and Francis
2020/03/30 - 2020/03/30	International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (1234-988X)	Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2019/08/18 - 2019/08/18	Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (1939-1285)	American Psychological Association
2019/03/14 - 2019/03/14	Cognition (0010-0277)	Science Direct
2019/01/23 - 2019/01/23	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (0278-7393)	Aaron S. Benjamin

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2014/01/08 - 2014/01/10	ConSOLE XXII. University of Lisbon, January 8-10 2014 Member	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018/09/01 - 2020/12/31	Statistical analyses’ services / consulting for the Psycholinguistics Lab – Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa.	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/01/09 - 2023/04/03	Bilingualism: Second language production and perception EN-460-1 This course engages students with the issue of bilingualism with focus on English as a second language.	English (Master)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for Helse og Idrettsvitenskap, Norway
2022/08/22 - 2022/10/31	Research Methodologies for Language, Linguistics, and Translation Studies. This course is a key preparatory course for independent work on master's theses. Topics to be covered include general approaches to research, e.g. quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research, the role of research methodology in a research project, criteria for research quality, and ethical issues.	English (Master)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Norway
2022/08/08 - 2022/10/31	Language Acquisition EN-469-1 The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the key issues in language acquisition and the various theories and approaches that seek to explain how children acquire language.	English (Master)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Norway
2022/08/08 - 2022/10/31	Aspects of English Morphology EN-211-1 The course introduces students to the linguistic structure of English words: basic terms and concepts in morphological analysis; inflectional morphology and derivational morphology; relationship of morphology to both phonology and semantics.	English (Bachelor)	Universitetet i Agder Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Norway
2020/01/06 - 2020/04/20	Introductory Psychology: Concepts and Theory II - Workshops. The aims are to introduce Psychology as the science of behaviour and mental processes. This is done by looking at knowledge gained from experiments and other scientific methods across a wide spectrum of the subject, examining some of the theoretical models derived from this knowledge, and discussing the methods used to obtain this knowledge. Specific topics are: Developmental Psychology, Evolution & Emotion, and Sensation & Perception.	Psychology (Bachelor)	University of Aberdeen School of Psychology, United Kingdom
2014/11/07 - 2014/12/19	Experimental Research Methodologies, Centro de Linguística, Universidade de Lisboa (coordinated by Profs. A. Costa and S. Frota): Teaching Assistant.	Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2019/05/26	Interview given by the PI (Prof. Louise Phillips) of the project on Gaze Following, to the Sunday Post. The interview was intended to disseminate the project and to promote the recruitment of participants for the studies being conducted. I am the person to be contacted by people interested in our project. https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/buds-thicker-than-water-scientists-search-for-secrets-of-friendship-to-see-if-pals-or-relatives-makes-us-happiest/	The Sunday Post

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2019/01/14 - Current	Eye tracking methodology	Vestina Sciaponaite, Sarah Kenny
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/31		Renate Gjentes, Øystein Østerhus, Helene Øya, Ellinor Skjerli, Ali Kalib