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Natália Lisandra Fernandes’ main research interests include experimental psychology, cognitive psychology and evolutionary psychology. Currently, she is working on various projects exploring the evolutionary underpinnings of cognitive functioning, particularly with respect to the behavioral immune system functioning. Specifically, she has been exploring whether human memory and attention are biased or tuned to solve fitness-relevant adaptive problems, particularly those that involve contamination and reproduction. She received two research awards in 2021: the ‘Research Award in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences’, granted by the ISPA-Instituto Universitário, and the ‘APPE Research Award’ granted by the Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental. She was the Co-Principal Investigator of a project, supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, that aims to develop virtual reality environments to further investigate the mnemonic tuning for contamination: “Coming out of the box: Moving from traditional to virtual procedures to explore prospective memory and contamination” (EXPL/PSI-GER/1008/2021).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Natália Lisandra Santos Fernandes

Citation names

  • Fernandes, Natália Lisandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3317-C932-9B01
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7062-5485
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=BQR9zSUAAAAJ
Researcher Id
AAE-3342-2020
Scopus Author Id
56828972000

Email addresses

  • natalia.fernandes@ua.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • University of Aveiro - Department of Education and Psychology. Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
Education
Degree Classification
2022/03/01 - 2023/08/31
Concluded
 Computer Sciences (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/12/01 - 2020/01/27
Concluded
 Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
"Sistema Imunitário Comportamental: Consequências cognitivas da contaminação [The Behavioral Immune System: Cognitive consequences of contamination]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2019/07/04 - 2019/07/05
Concluded
 Summer Course on Multilevel: Analyzing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data Using Multilevel Models (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Campus del Mar, Spain
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/03
Concluded
 Summer Course on Multilevel: Practical multilevel modelling (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Campus del Mar, Spain
2010/09/20 - 2012/11/19
Concluded
 Psychology (Mestrado)
Major in Clinical Psychology
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Processamento neural de faces em crianças institucionalizadas com e sem perturbação de vinculação: Um estudo de potenciais evocados [Neural processing of faces in institutionalized children with and without attachment disordered behaviors: An ERP study]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 (0-20 scale)
2007/09 - 2010/06/06
Concluded
 Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
 17 (0-20 scale)
2009/04/06 - 2009/04/08
Concluded
 Curso Intensivo em Empreendedorismo e Inovação Empresarial [Intensive Course in Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation] (Outros)
Centro de Empresas e Inovação da Madeira, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/01 - 2023/08 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/08/01 - 2017/04/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Purdue University, United States
2015/09/01 - 2015/11/30 Research Assistant (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2013/08/01 - 2015/08/31 Research Assistant (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2010/08/31 Research Trainee (Research) Análise Estatística da Madeira, Portugal
Análise Estatística da Madeira, Portugal
2009/12/01 - 2010/05/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2009/10/01 - 2009/11/30 Research Trainee (Research) Serviço de Saúde da Região Autónoma da Madeira, Portugal
Serviço de Saúde da Região Autónoma da Madeira, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/12/01 - 2019/11/30 The Behavioral Immune System: The effect of being aware about a potential disease, immunosuppression and potential contaminants
SFRH/BD/109775/2015
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2015/11/30 The mnemonic consequences of fitness-relevant processing
IF/00058/2012/CP0172/CT0002
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/08/01 - 2015/08/31 The mnemonic consequences of mate processing
PTDC/MHC-PCN/5274/2012
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/09/19 - 2012/11/19 Inhibited and indiscriminate attachment disordered behaviours in institutionally-reared children: A multilevel comparison with autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome
PTDS/PSI-PCL/101506/2008
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022 - 2023 Coming out of the box: Moving from traditional to virtual procedures to explore prospective memory and contamination
EXPL/PSI-GER/1008/2021
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2014/03/01 - 2015/05/31 Adaptation and psychometric validity of the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire to Portuguese adolescents
N/A
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2010/08/01 - 2010/08/31 Satisfação dos participantes na campanha Transporte à Medida [User satisfaction on the Customized Transport' campain]
N/A
Researcher
Análise Estatística da Madeira, Portugal
Concluded
2010/06/01 - 2010/06/30 O impacto dos grandes equipamentos de serviços e edifícios de habitação social sobre a mobilidade dos cidadãos [The impact of large service facilities and social housing buildings on citizens' mobility]
N/A
Researcher
Análise Estatística da Madeira, Portugal
Concluded
2009/12/01 - 2010/05/31 Initiative.pt Program
N/A
Researcher
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Turismo de Portugal, Portugal
Ongoing
2009/10/01 - 2009/11/30 A incidência e a prevalência da doença mental na Região Autónoma da Madeira [Incidence and prevalence of mental illness at Madeira Archipelago]
N/A
Researcher
Serviço de Saúde da Região Autónoma da Madeira, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Félix, Sara B.. "Adaptive memory". In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier, 2024.
    Published • 10.1016/b978-0-443-15754-7.00016-x
  2. Nairne, James S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.; Fernandes, Natália L. (3317-C932-9B01). "Adaptive Memory". In Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, edited by John H. Byrne, 279-293. Oxford: Elsevier, 2017.
    Published • 10.1016/b978-0-12-809324-5.21060-2
Conference abstract
  1. Santos, Sónia M.P.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The Contamination Effect Beyond Visual Cues: Exploring the Role of Different Sensory Inputs". Paper presented in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society - 65th Annual Meeting, 2024.
    Published
  2. Santos, Sónia M.P.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Beyond Visual Contamination Cues: Development and validation of a multisensory stimuli database". Paper presented in Research Summit 2023: Book of abstracts, 2023.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.48528/nd5m-mk87
  3. Santos, Sónia Marisa Póvoa; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Extending the contamination effect to recognition memory". Paper presented in Research Summit 2022: Book of abstracts, 2022.
    Published • 10.48528/6dz9-d129
  4. Santos, Sónia Marisa Póvoa; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. ""Have I seen that before?": Enhanced Recognition (with a Remember Experience) for Potential Sources of Contamination". Paper presented in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society - 63rd Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 2022.
    Published
  5. Santos, Sónia Marisa Póvoa; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra. "Same stimuli, different context: Effects of context framing on emotional subjective". Paper presented in Research Summit 2021: Book of abstracts, 2021.
    Published • 10.48528/qdpf-e229
  6. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. ""If it's contaminated, you will remember it": The mnemonic value of contamination". Paper presented in X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia: Livro de Resumos, 2019.
    Published
  7. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Adaptive Memory: The Mnemonic Value of Contamination". Paper presented in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society - 57th Annual Meeting, 2016.
    Published
  8. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Nairne, James S.; Marinho, Patrícia; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Better Recognition Memory for Faces When Looking for a Long-Term Partner". Paper presented in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society - 56th Annual Meeting, 2015.
Conference paper
  1. Silva, Diana; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Santos, Sónia Marisa Póvoa; Pedro, Beatriz; Marques, Bernardo; Santos, Beatriz Sousa; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Silva, Samuel. "Supporting Research in Memory and Contamination using a Virtual Reality Approach for Experimental Psychology". Paper presented in Proceedings of the ICCI 2022 - 4th International Conference on Graphics and Interaction, 2022.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Santos, Sónia M.P.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.. "The contamination effect beyond visual cues: Exploring the Role of Different Sensory Inputs". Paper presented in 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2024.
  2. Santos, Sónia M.P.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Is (s)he Sick?! A Database of (Non- )Contamination Actions in Multiple Sensory Modalities". Paper presented in 18th National Meeting of the APPE, 2024.
  3. Santos, Sónia Marisa Póvoa; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. ""Have I seen that before?": Enhanced Recognition (with a Remember Experience) for Potential Sources of Contamination". Paper presented in 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2022.
  4. Madeira, Mariana; Fernandes, Natália; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "The interplay among face trait inferences before and during COVID-19". Paper presented in International APPE - SEPEX Meeting, 2022.
  5. Santos, Sónia; Fernandes, Natália; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Extending the contamination effect to recognition memory". Paper presented in International APPE - SEPEX Meeting, 2022.
  6. Sónia M. P. Santos; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.. "Diseased or Non-Diseased: Different Framings of the Same Stimuli Induce Different Emotional States and Gazing Patterns". Paper presented in 2021 APS Virtual Convention, 2021.
  7. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. ""If it's contaminated, you will remember it": The mnemonic value of contamination". Paper presented in X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, 2019.
  8. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Are health-threatening stimuli better retained? The mnemonic consequences of contamination". Paper presented in 14th National Meeting of the APPE, 2019.
  9. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "The Objects-on-Hands Picture Database: Validation from contextual activation". Paper presented in BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, 2018.
  10. Magalhães, Ana Cláudia; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Soares, Sandra C.. "Exogenous attention and memory for faces following contextual behavioral immune system activation". Paper presented in 13th National Meeting of the APPE, 2018.
  11. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "The Objects-on-Hands Picture Database: Development and Validation". Paper presented in 13th National Meeting of the APPE, 2018.
  12. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Soares, Sandra C.; Nairne, James S.. ""Remind myself not to touch it, it's contaminated!": Memory and contamination". Paper presented in Research Day 2017@ University of Aveiro, 2017.
  13. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of contamination". Paper presented in 57th Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, 2016.
  14. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Nairne, James S.; Marinho, Patrícia; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Enhanced source and indirect retention of long-term potential mates". Paper presented in 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2016.
  15. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Nairne, James S.; Marinho, Patrícia; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Enhanced recognition memory for faces of potential mates". Paper presented in 11th National Meeting of the APPE, 2016.
  16. Silva, Daniela; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra. "If I see 'the one', i'll remember him! Memory enhancement for desirable potential mates". Paper presented in 11th National Meeting of the APPE, 2016.
  17. Branquinho, Ana; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Santos, Isabel; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Carrito, Mariana. "When a good "catch" is seen as more attractive". Paper presented in 11th National Meeting of the APPE, 2016.
  18. Rodrigues, Pedro; Bem-Haja, Pedro; Marinho, Patrícia; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Ribeiro, Lígia; Silva, Carlos; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra. "How to assess chronotype in Portuguese adolescents? A validated reduced version of the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire". Paper presented in 11th National Meeting of the APPE, 2016.
  19. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Nairne, James S.; Marinho, Patrícia; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Better recognition memory for faces when looking for a long-term partner". Paper presented in 56th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society Chicago, 2015.
  20. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Vasconcelos, Marco; Pinho, Maria. "Normas portuguesas de confiabilidade para faces humana". Paper presented in 10th National Meeting of the APPE, 2015.
  21. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Marinho, Patrícia; Pinho, Maria Salomé; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Looking for a partner for life? The most (un)desired characteristics". Paper presented in 10th National Meeting of the APPE, 2015.
  22. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Marinho, Patrícia; Pinho, Maria Salomé; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Looking for one-night stand? What you (don't) want to find in your partner". Paper presented in 10th National Meeting of the APPE, 2015.
  23. Rodrigues, Pedro; Marinho, Patrícia; Ribeiro, Lígia; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Silva, Carlos F.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Bem-Haja, Pedro. "Tradução e adaptação do questionário de Horne & Ostberg numa população de adolescentes portugueses". Paper presented in 10th National Meeting of the APPE, 2015.
  24. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Marinho, Patrícia; Vasconcelos, Marco. "What do people (un)desire when looking for a mate partner?". Paper presented in International Convention of Psychological Science 2015, 2015.
  25. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Normas portuguesas de atratividade para faces humanas". Paper presented in 9th National Meeting of the APPE, 2014.
  26. Oliveira, P.; Osório, Ana; Mesquita, Ana; Sampaio, Adriana; Fachada, Inês; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Belsky, J.; Soares, Isabel; Fearon, P.. "Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalized children: Relations with quality of Care". Paper presented in 2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Santos, Sónia M.P.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.. "The Contamination Effect in Recognition Memory: Adding Evidence for an Adaptive Mnemonic Tuning". Memory (2024):
    Accepted
  2. Santos, Sónia M.P.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.. "Same but different: The influence of context framing on subjective disgust, eye movements and pupillary responses". Consciousness and Cognition 108 (2023): 103462. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103462.
    Published • 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103462
  3. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Madeira, Mariana; Marinho, Patrícia I.; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Can I Trust This Person? Evaluations of Trustworthiness From Faces and Relevant Individual Variables". Frontiers in Psychology 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.857511.
    Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.857511
  4. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Madeira, Mariana; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Marinho, Patrícia; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Judgements of Social Dominance From Faces and Related Variables". Frontiers in Psychology 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.873147.
    Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.873147
  5. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "The Mnemonic Tuning for Contamination: A Replication and Extension Study Using More Ecologically Valid Stimuli". Evolutionary Psychology 19 1 (2021): 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704920946234.
    Published • 10.1177/1474704920946234
  6. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Vasconcelos, Marco. "Attractiveness of Human Faces: Norms by Sex, Sexual Orientation, Age, Relationship Stability, and Own Attractiveness Judgements". Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00419.
    Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00419
  7. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra (3317-C932-9B01); Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Presenting new stimuli to study emotion: Development and validation of the Objects-on-Hands Picture Database". PLOS ONE 14 7 (2019): e0219615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219615.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0219615
  8. Magalhães, Ana Cláudia; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra (3317-C932-9B01); Soares, Sandra C.. "Exogenous attention and memory for faces following contextual behavioral immune system activation". Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 59 6 (2018): 586-593. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12491.
    Published • 10.1111/sjop.12491
  9. Rodrigues, Pedro F. S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Bem-Haja, Pedro; Marinho, Patrícia I.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra (3317-C932-9B01); Ribeiro, Lígia; Silva, Carlos F.. "Assessing circadian preferences in Portuguese adolescents: development and preliminary validation of a reduced Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire". Biological Rhythm Research 50 6 (2018): 916-926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09291016.2018.1512291.
    Published • 10.1080/09291016.2018.1512291
  10. Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra (3317-C932-9B01); Vasconcelos, Marco; Nairne, James S.. "Adaptive Memory: Remembering Potential Mates". Evolutionary Psychology 15 4 (2017): 147470491774280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704917742807.
    Published • 10.1177/1474704917742807
  11. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra (3317-C932-9B01); Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.; Soares, Sandra C.; Nairne, James S.. "Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of contamination". Evolution and Human Behavior 38 4 (2017): 451-460. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.04.003.
    Published • 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.04.003
  12. Rodrigues, Pedro F.S.; Pandeirada, Josefa N.S.; Marinho, Patrícia I.; Bem-Haja, Pedro; Silva, Carlos F.; Ribeiro, Lígia; Fernandes, Natália Lisandra (3317-C932-9B01). "Morningness-eveningness preferences in Portuguese adolescents: Adaptation and psychometric validity of the H&O questionnaire". Personality and Individual Differences 88 (2016): 62-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.08.048.
    Published • 10.1016/j.paid.2015.08.048
Newspaper article
  1. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Objetos contaminados são melhor recordados pela memória humana", UAonline, 2019, http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=57087.
  2. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Memória humana fixa melhor os objetos que estão contaminados", Destak, 2019
  3. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Memória recorda melhor os objetos contaminados segundo investigadoras", Diário de Viseu , 2019
  4. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigação: memória recorda melhor objetos contaminados", Jornal Médico.pt Online , 2019
  5. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "A memória ajuda a evitar contaminações de forma inconsciente. E isso protege-nos.", Sapo Online - Sapo Lifestyle Online , 2019
  6. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigadores de Aveiro concluem que memória recorda melhor objetos contaminados", Saúde Online , 2019
  7. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Objetos contaminados são melhor recordados pela memória humana", Atlas da Saúde Online , 2019
  8. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigadores de Aveiro concluem que memória recorda melhor objetos contaminados", Diário de Notícias Online , 2019
  9. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigadores de Aveiro concluem que memória recorda melhor objetos contaminados", Expresso Online , 2019
  10. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Objetos contaminados são melhor recordados pela memória humana", Medjournal Online, 2019
  11. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Objetos contaminados são mais bem recordados pela memória humana", Mood Magazine Online , 2019
  12. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigação nacional revela que objetos contaminados são mais bem recordados pela memória humana", News Farma Online , 2019
  13. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigadores concluem que memória recorda melhor objetos contaminados", Notícias ao Minuto Online , 2019
  14. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "UA: investigação conclui que objetos contaminados são melhor recordados pela memória humana", Rádio Terra Nova Online , 2019
  15. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Investigadores de Aveiro concluem que memória recorda melhor objetos contaminados", TSF Online , 2019
  16. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Nairne, James S.. "Memória retém registo de objetos contaminados para prevenir infeções", TV Europa Online , 2019
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra. "The Behavioral Immune System: Cognitive consequences of contamination". PhD, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, 2020.
  2. Fernandes, Natália Lisandra. "Processamento neural de faces em crianças institucionalizadas com e sem perturbação de vinculação: Um estudo de potenciais evocados". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2012.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09 Does encountering potentially contaminated items improve memory for future intentions: The contamination effect in prospective memory [SYMPOSIA: Defying the standards of cognition: What about evolution? (Take 2)] ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07 Beyond Visual Contamination Cues: Development and validation of a multisensory stimuli database Research Summit 2023
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/11 Supporting Research in Memory and Contamination using a Virtual Reality Approach for Experimental Psychology Proceedings of the ICCI 2022 - 4th International Conference on Graphics and Interaction
University of Aveiro (Portugal)
2022/07/15 Extending the contamination effect to recognition memory Research Summit 2022
University of Aveiro
2022/05/07 Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of contamination International APPE – SEPEX Meeting
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental; Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (Portugal)
2021/07/08 Same stimuli, different context: Effects of context framing on emotional subjective Research Summit 2021
University of Aveiro (Portugal)
2021/05/19 Presenting new stimuli to study emotion: Development and validation of the Objects-on-Hands Picture Database ISPA 2021 Research Award in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Ceremony
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida (Portugal)
2019/05/29 The Behavioral Immune System: The mnemonic consequences of contamination 6th edition of the UnderInvestigation: Psychology&Education@Ua
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2016/04/27 Activation of the Behavioral Immune System: The effect of context of awareness to diseases, immunosuppression, and potential contaminants Curricular Unit Psychoneuroimmunology
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2013/04/20 The role of attachment disordered behaviors on the neural processing of face familiarity in institutionalized children: an ERP study 2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting
Society for Research in Child Development (Seattle, Washington, United States)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - 2025 The Contamination Effect
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021 - 2025 Exploring the mnemonic effect for sources of contamination and how to use it to promote infection prevention behaviors
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Implicações cognitivas e comportamentais da contaminação
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica de jovens estudantes – Licenciatura em Psicologia e Mestrado em Psicologia da Saúde e Neuropsicologia – 1.º Ano (PIC-PSI) - 6.ª Edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Implicações cognitivas e comportamentais da contaminação
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica de jovens estudantes – Licenciatura em Psicologia e Mestrado em Psicologia da Saúde e Neuropsicologia – 1.º Ano (PIC-PSI) - 6.ª Edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Remembering to approach or avoid pathogen threats: Contamination and prospective memory
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia da Saúde e Reabilitação Neuropsicológica (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Implicações cognitivas e comportamentais da contaminação
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica de jovens estudantes – Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 5.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Relação entre o Sistema Imuno-Comportamental e o Sistema Imuno-Biológico
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica de jovens estudantes – Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) 3.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Sistema Imunológico Comportamental: Exploração integrada dos seus aspetos comportamentais
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica: Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 2.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Sistema Imunológico Comportamental: Exploração integrada dos seus aspetos comportamentais
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica: Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 1.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Sistema Imunológico Comportamental: Exploração integrada dos seus aspetos comportamentais
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica: Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 1.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Sistema Imunológico Comportamental: Exploração integrada dos seus aspetos comportamentais
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica: Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 1.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Sistema Imunológico Comportamental: Exploração integrada dos seus aspetos comportamentais
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica: Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 1.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Sistema Imunológico Comportamental: Exploração integrada dos seus aspetos comportamentais
Co-supervisor
 Programa de Iniciação Científica: Licenciatura em Psicologia (PIC-PSI) - 1.ª edição (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28 XPERiMENTA 2023 - - Event of promotion of science and technology of the University of Aveiro (2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/04/28 - 2022/04/29 XPERiMENTA 2022 - - Event of promotion of science and technology of the University of Aveiro (2022/04/28 - 2022/04/29)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/06 Junior Summer Academy 2019 (2019/06 - 2019/06)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/04/29 - 2019/04/30 XPERiMENTA 2019 - - Event of promotion of science and technology of the University of Aveiro (2019/04/29 - 2019/04/30)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/03/13 - 2019/03/15 1º Congresso Nacional de Investigação Científica em Oncologia Psicossocial (2019/03/13 - 2019/03/15)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 Open Week of Science and Technology - Open Campus 2018 - "Psychology: with hands-on activities!" (2018/03 - 2018/03)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/03 Open Week of Science and Technology - Open Campus 2016 - "Psychology: with hands-on activities!" (2016/03 - 2016/03)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/11 - 2015/11 Open Week of Science and Technology - Open Campus 2015 - "Psychology: with hands-on activities!" (2015/11 - 2015/11)
Other (Other)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/09/25 - 2015/09/26 Oliveira do Bairro Science Fair - "Put your brain to the test: Cognitive tasks" [I Feira de Ciência de Oliveira do Bairro - "Põe o teu cérebro à prova: Tarefas cognitivas"] (2015/09/25 - 2015/09/26)
Other (Other)
 Câmara Municipal de Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal
2010/07/05 - 2010/07/10 16th Portuguese Association for Regional Development Congress (2010/07/05 - 2010/07/10)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2009/02/26 - 2009/02/28 Representing the inner music: music in psychodrama and group psychotherapy process (2009/02/26 - 2009/02/28)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Conference
 ESCOP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Belgium
2023/05/02 - 2023/05/02 "Statistics and Data Analysis in Health with SPSS [Estatística e Análise de Dados em Saúde com SPSS]", by Prof. Dr. Ricardo São João
Other
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21 "Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Window into the Functioning of the Mind/Brain", by Prof. Doutor Alfonso Caramazza (Harvard University)
Other
 Inaugural Lecture of the Project CogBooster
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/03/31 - 2023/04/01 17th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology
Meeting
 17th National Meeting of the APPE
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03/15 - 2023/03/15 "How does cognition evolve? A comparative analysis of lemurs' cognition", by Prof. Dr. Francesca de Petrillo (Newcastle University)
Seminar
City University of London, United Kingdom
2023/02/22 - 2023/02/22 "A sensory account of threat processing and fear disorders", by Prof. Dr. Wen Li (Florida State University)
Other
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2023/01/25 - 2023/01/25 "Embodied Cognition for Kids: Applying Principles of Embodiment to Education", by Prof. Dr. Arthur Glenberg (Arizona State University)
Seminar
 Psychonomic Society One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2022/11/17 - 2022/11/20 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Meeting
 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2022/10/19 - 2022/10/19 "All that One Sees in a Blink of an Eye from Natural to Radiological Images", by Prof. Dr. Karla Evans (The University of York)
Seminar
 Psychonomic Society One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2022/10/14 - 2022/10/14 "PsychoPy demonstration", by Dr. Kimberly Dundas (Open Science Tools)
Workshop
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2022/10/10 - 2022/10/10 "Exploring Research with Virtual Reality", by Prof Dr. Mike DePhillips
Workshop
 Exploring Research with Virtual Reality
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2022/10/04 - 2022/10/04 "Eye-tracking aplicado às ciências psicológicas: Foco na pupilometria", by Pedro J. Rosa
Seminar
 Eye-tracking aplicado às ciências psicológicas: Foco na pupilometria
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/09/23 - 2022/09/23 Innovations in Online Research
Conference
 2nd annual Innovations in Online Research Conference
Prime Research Solutions LLC, United States
2022/09/21 - 2022/09/21 "Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought", by Prof. Dr. Barbara Tversky (Stanford University & Columbia University)
Seminar
 Psychonomic Society One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2022/05/05 - 2022/05/07 International APPE-SEPEX Meeting
Meeting
 International APPE-SEPEX Meeting
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal
2022/03/09 - 2022/03/10 "The power of mediation: Power analysis and mediational models", by Prof. Dr. Marcello Gallucci (Universtià Milano-Bicocca)
Workshop
 The power of mediation: Power analysis and mediational models
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2022/02/18 - 2022/02/18 "Social Remembering and Collective Memory", by Suparna Rajaram (Stony Brook University)
Seminar
 Social Remembering and Collective Memory
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2022/01/26 - 2022/01/26 "Why Does a Higher Speed of Information Processing Facilitate Reasoning?", by Anna-Lena Schubert (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)
Seminar
 Psychonomic Society One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2021/05/26 - 2021/05/27 2021 APS Virtual Convention
Meeting
 2021 APS Virtual Convention
Association for Psychological Science, United States
2021/04/09 - 2021/04/10 15th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology
Meeting
 15th National Meeting of the APPE
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal
2019/06/27 - 2019/06/29 X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Symposium
 X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia, Portugal

Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2019/05/03 - 2019/05/04 14th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology
Meeting
 14th National Meeting of the APPE
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal
2018/08/29 - 2018/08/31 BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference
Conference
 BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference
Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom
2018/04/13 - 2018/04/14 13th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology
Meeting
 13th National Meeting of the APPE
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/06/13 - 2017/06/13 Research Day 2017@ University of Aveiro
Meeting
 Research Day 2017@ University of Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/11/17 - 2016/11/20 57th Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting
Meeting
 57th Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2016/05/05 - 2016/05/08 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Meeting
 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States

Universidad de Granada, Spain
2016/04/01 - 2016/04/02 11th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology 11th National Meeting of the APPE
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/11/19 - 2015/11/22 56th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society Chicago
Meeting
 56th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society Chicago
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
2013/10/23 - 2013/10/26 2ª Jornadas de Psicologia da Universidade de Aveiro
Other
 2ª Jornadas de Psicologia da Universidade de Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023 - 2023 Member of the jury for the attribution of a fellowship - Project: "Adaptive memory: From the laboratory to everyday challenges"
Evaluator
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022 - 2022 Member of the jury for the attribution of a fellowship - Project: "Experimentar fora da caixa: Passando de procedimentos tradicionais para procedimentos virtuais para explorar a memória prospetiva na contaminação" Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2019/01 Objetos contaminados são mais bem recordados pela memória humana LUSA: Agência de Notícias de Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2019/09/10 - 2019/09/10 90 Segundos de Ciência Objetos contaminados são mais facilmente recordados

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019 - Current Applied Cognitive Psychology (1099-0720) Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2018 - Current Evolutionary Psychological Science (2198-9885) Springer-Verlag
Distinctions

Award

2021 APPE 2021 Award
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Portugal
2021 ISPA 2021 Research Award in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2009 Best project proposal (second prize) at Intensive Course in Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation
Centro de Empresas e Inovação da Madeira, Portugal

Other distinction

2022 R&D projects
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 Post-doctoral fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 Prolific's £10K Research Grant Competition
2015 PhD Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2013 Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal