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Ana Mafalda Oliveira Santos Lourenço Valente. Concluiu Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica pela Universidade de Lisboa em 2015. É Estudante de doutoramento - Champalimaud Research. Possui 3 itens de produção técnica. Actualmente participa em 1 projecto de investigação. Nas suas actividades profissionais interagiu com 4 colaboradores em co-autorias de trabalhos científicos.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Mafalda Oliveira Santos Lourenço Valente

Citation names

  • Valente, Mafalda
  • Valente, Ana Mafalda

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
281D-9105-84BB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1824-0462

Email addresses

  • mafalda.valente@neuro.fchampalimaud.org (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Japanese Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017
Concluded
 Workshop on Science Writing (Curso médio)
Champalimaud Research, Portugal
2016
Concluded
 Workshop Graphic Design for Scientists (Curso médio)
Champalimaud Research, Portugal
2009 - 2015
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Investigating Sources of Uncertainty in a Perceptual Decision-Making Task" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2015
Concluded
 Curso Teórico e Prático para Acreditação FELASA Categoria B (Curso médio)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências em Animais de Laboratório, Portugal
2009 - 2009
Concluded
 Estágio no Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (Outros)
Direccao-Geral de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural, Portugal
2007 - 2007
Concluded
 Curso Introdutório à Astronomia e Astrofísica (Curso médio)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Valente, Mafalda; Castiñeiras de Saa, Juan R.; Renart, Alfonso. "Auditory Cortex Inhibition Affects Performance in a Sound Lateralization Task". Paper presented in Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, 2023.
    10.32470/ccn.2023.1726-0
Conference poster
  1. Valente, Mafalda (281D-9105-84BB); Castiñeiras de Saa, Juan R.; Alfonso Renart. "Auditory Cortex Inhibition Affects Performance in a Sound Lateralization Task". Paper presented in 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2023.
  2. Valente, Ana Mafalda; Gil, Rita; Shemesh, Noam. "Behavioural Relevance modulates BOLD-fMRI responses in the rat Visual Cortex". Paper presented in ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2023, 2023.
  3. Gil, Rita; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Shemesh, Noam. "The Rat Superior Colliculus: a key structure with an active role for the continuity illusion effect". Paper presented in The 18th European Molecular Imaging Meeting, 2023.
  4. Gil, Rita; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Shemesh, Noam. "Resolving activity suppression in the rat visual pathway using fMRI combined with lesions". Paper presented in ISMRM 31st Annual Meeting, 2022.
  5. Valente, Mafalda (281D-9105-84BB); José Pardo-Vázquez; Juan R. Castiñeiras; Tiago Costa; Renart, Alfonso. "Stimulus intensity versus stimulus identity in perceptual decision-making". Paper presented in 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, 2018.
  6. José Luis Pardo-Vazquez; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Renart, Alfonso. "Level-invariant accuracy through level-dependent speed in a sound lateralization task". Paper presented in 5th Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium, 2016.
  7. Kobak D.; Pardo-Vazquez, J. L.; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Machens, C.; Renart, Alfonso. "Geometry and state-dependence of sound representations in rat auditory cortex". Paper presented in 5th Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium, 2016.
  8. Renart, Alfonso; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Kobak D.; Machens, C.; Pardo-Vazquez, J. L.. "Constrains on the accuracy of auditory discrimination in rats". Paper presented in Cosyne2016, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Gil, Rita; Valente, Mafalda; Shemesh, Noam. Corresponding author: Shemesh, Noam. "Rat superior colliculus encodes the transition between static and dynamic vision modes". Nature Communications (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44934-8.
    10.1038/s41467-024-44934-8
  2. Mafalda Valente; Juan R. Castiñeiras-de Saa; Alfonso Renart; Jose L. Pardo-Vazquez. "Ratphones: An Affordable Tool for Highly Controlled Sound Presentation in Freely Moving Rats". eneuro 10 5 (2023): ENEURO.0028-23.2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0028-23.2023.
    10.1523/eneuro.0028-23.2023
  3. Pardo-Vazquez, Jose L.; Juan R. Castiñeiras; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Damião, Iris; Costa, Tiago; Vicente, M. Inês; Mendonça, André G.; Mainen, Zachary F.; Renart, Alfonso. "The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law". Nature Neuroscience 22 9 (2019): 1493-1502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0439-7.
    10.1038/s41593-019-0439-7
  4. Kobak, Dmitry; Pardo-Vazquez, Jose L; Valente, Ana Mafalda; Machens, Christian K; Renart, Alfonso. "State-dependent geometry of population activity in rat auditory cortex". eLife 8 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.44526.
    Open access • 10.7554/elife.44526
Preprint
  1. Gil, Rita; Valente, Mafalda; Shemesh, Noam. "Activation/suppression balances in rat Superior Colliculus encode the visual continuity illusion". 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.27.518086.
    10.1101/2022.11.27.518086
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Valente, Ana Mafalda. "Investigating Sources of Uncertainty in a Perceptual Decision-Making Task". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2015. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/mebiom/dissertacao/1409728525631592.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/05 Dissecting the impact of cortical feedback and inhibitory tectotectal loops in negative BOLD responses along the rat visual pathway ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition - An Online Experience 15-20 May 2021
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Inc. (ISMRM)
2018/10/25 Reaction time reveals the mechanism of Weber's law Champalimaud Research Symposium 2018
Champalimaud Research (Lisboa, Portugal)