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Marlene Nogueira is an early-career neuroscientist in the first year of completing her PhD, dedicated to exploring the profound effects of early adverse experiences on brain development. Her research focuses on the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences of out-of-home care and deprived parental environments, with a focus on institutionalized populations. By integrating cutting-edge techniques in epigenetics, neuroimaging, and cognitive assessment, Marlene seeks to unravel the biological and psychological mechanisms that link early-life adversity to long-term outcomes. As a researcher at the Psychological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Minho (Portugal), using a multidisciplinary approach, she contributes with her expertise to a variety of collaborative projects within the lab. Among her ongoing projects, Marlene is particularly interested in understanding emotional processing and cognitive development across different developmental stages. In addition to her research, Marlene is deeply committed to mentoring and supporting the next generation of scientists. She has co-supervised several undergraduate students and actively engages in science communication initiatives to bridge the gap between research and the public. Her dedication to fostering scientific curiosity and knowledge-sharing is evident through her involvement in organizing academic events and her advocacy for open science practices.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marlene Sofia Belinho Nogueira

Citation names

  • Nogueira, Marlene

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5A12-044C-3DF9
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5159-2486

Email addresses

  • id6770@alunos.uminho.pt (Professional)
  • marlene.nogueira@psi.uminho.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho. Campus de Gualtar, 4710, Gualtar, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/01 - 2024/07
Concluded
 Basic Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"THE IMPACT OF RESIDENTIAL REARING ON THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN: THE CONTRIBUTION OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2022/02/24 - 2022/05/26
Concluded
 Visiting PhD Student (Outros)
University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, United Kingdom
2016
Concluded
 Molecular Genetics (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
"The impact of early life experiences on oxytocinergic system modulation: implications on social behavior development" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2013
Concluded
 Applied Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
"Estudo do papel do receptor da oxitocina no comportamento de interacção social em animais submetidos a stress precoce" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2024/02/29 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
2017/07/06 - 2019/12/31 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/04/01 - 2017/06/30 Colaboradora de investigação Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/02/29 Avaliação do funcionamento cerebral em repouso e dependente de tarefa em adolescentes com distintas trajetórias de desenvolvimento: contribuição de mecanismos epigenéticos
SFRH/BD/145469/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/06 - Current Cross-border network for the study of music as therapy in neuropsychomotor diseases and aging
EUTERPE_adn
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal

Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interreg Europe
Ongoing
2023 - 2026 Anger in the mind and body: from unconscious cognitive mechanisms to psychophysiological and neural substrates
PT/FB/BL-2022-277
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal

University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, United Kingdom
Fundação Bial
Ongoing
2022 - 2023 The effects of institutional care on emotional processing in Portuguese adolescents
Emotion processing adolescents
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK)
Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2022/07/31 Assessment of resting-state brain networks functional connectivity on adolescents with different developmental trajectories: epigenetic mechanisms contribution
PTDC/PSI-ESP/28228/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020 - 2022 Emotional processing study in healthy volunteers
Emotion processing
Researcher
NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Scientific Project of the Psychology Research Center [Centro de Investigação em Psicologia - CIPsi]
UID/PSI/01662/2019
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017 - 2018 Interaction between immune genes and quality of caregiver`s behaviours for child`s attachment outcomes
PTDC/PSI-PCL/116897/2010
Researcher
Concluded
2015 - 2016 Será o comportamento social na adolescência reflexo de experiências precoces adversas? Efeito da separação maternal e enriquecimento ambiental
PTDC/MHC-PAP/5304/2012
Researcher
Concluded
2013 - 2016 O impacto do stress precoce nas vias do comportamento social: relação entre oxitocina e corticosteróides
PTDC/PSI-PCO/116612/2010
Researcher
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Saraiva, Fátima; Couto Pereira, Natividade S.; Nogueira, Marlene; Capela, Susana; Rosa, Francisco; Fagundes, Catarina; Harmer, Catherine; et al. "Feeling Angry? Exploring the Relationship Between Conscious and Non-conscious Detection of Angry Faces and Subjective Perception of Anger". Paper presented in 4.º Simpósio Doutoral de Psicologia U.NORTE - SimPsi U.Norte, 2025.
  2. Nogueira, Marlene; Anna Pelliet; Catarina Fagundes; Susana Capela; Fátima Saraiva; Erdem Pulcu; Catherine Harmer; Susanah Murphy; Liliana Capitão. ""Unseen Threats": preconscious detection of fearful vs angry faces influences the subjective experience of anger.". Paper presented in 37th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), 2024.
  3. Nogueira, Marlene; Sónia S. Sousa; Paula Oliveira; Isabel Soares; Ana Mesquita; Liliana Capitão; Adriana Sampaio. "Uncovering the invisible: early adversity's role in adolescent emotion processing". Paper presented in 37th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), 2024.
  4. Saraiva, Fátima; Couto-Pereira, Natividade; Nogueira, Marlene; Colwell, Michael; Capela, Susana; Rosa, Francisco; Fagundes, Catarina; et al. "The link between Anger and Impulsivity: Insights from the Affective Interference Go/No-Go Task". Paper presented in 2.ª Convenção Psicologia U.Norte / 3.º SIMPSI Simpósio Doutoral Psicologia U.Norte, 2024.
  5. Nogueira, Marlene; Sónia Sousa; Pedro Moreira; Isabel Soares; Ana Mesquita; Adriana Sampaio. Corresponding author: Nogueira, Marlene. "Default mode abnormalities in currently institutionalized adolescents.". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2021.
  6. Nogueira, Marlene; Sonia S. Sousa; Pedro Moreira; Isabel Soares; Ana Mesquita; Adriana Sampaio. Corresponding author: Sonia S. Sousa. "Institutionalization is associated with alterations of brain regions involved in emotional and reward processing during adolescence". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2021.
  7. Nogueira, Marlene; Karlos Luna; Pedro B. Albuquerque. "Importance mediates the effect of font size on judgments of learning.". Paper presented in 13th National Meeting of the APPE, 2018.
  8. Nogueira, Marlene; Nogueira, M.*, Alves, R.L., Bravo, J., Alves, C.J., Pereira, A.R., Mesquita, A., de Sousa, L., Barbosa, F., Summavielle,; Alves, R.L. ; Alves, C.J.; Magalhães, A.. "Comparison of two short periods of maternal separation on adolescent rat social behaviour and drug reward.". Paper presented in XV Meeting of The Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, 2017.
  9. Nogueira, Marlene Sofia Belinho; Nogueira, Marlene; Bravo J., ; Summavielle T., ; Magalhães, A.. "Comparison of two short periods of maternal separation on adolescent rat social behaviour and drug reward". Paper presented in International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2016.
  10. Nogueira, Marlene; C. J. Alves,. "The impact of different periods of neonatal maternal separation on social behavior in an adolescent rat model.". Paper presented in Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience. Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, 2015.
  11. Nogueira, Marlene; Magalhães, A., ; Ana Mesquita. "Consequences of two different periods of neonatal maternal separation on social behavior of adolescent male rat.". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, 2015.
Journal article
  1. Marlene Nogueira; Juliana da Silva Magalhães; Adriana Sampaio; Sónia Sousa; Joana F. Coutinho; Nogueira, Marlene; Juliana Magalhaes ; Sónia S. Sousa; Joana Coutinho. "Examining Insula–Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity and Its Relationship with Heart Rate Variability". Brain Sciences (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15010037.
    Published • 10.3390/brainsci15010037
  2. Anna Pelliet; Marlene Nogueira; Catarina Fagundes; Susana Capela; Fátima Saraiva; Erdem Pulcu; Susannah Elinor Murphy; Catherine Harmer; Liliana Capitao. "“Invisible Dangers”: preconscious detection of fearful vs angry faces influences the subjective experience of anger". (2025): https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/udyjw.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.31234/osf.io/udyjw
  3. Nogueira, Marlene; Pedro Moreira; Lídia Carvalho; Isabel Soares; Ana Mesquita; Adriana Sampaio. "Structural brain correlates of childhood maltreatment: an activation likelihood estimation (ale) meta-analysis". (2025):
    Submitted
  4. Nogueira, Marlene; Sónia S. Sousa; Natividade Couto-Pereira; Paula Oliveira; Isabel Soares; Ana Mesquita; Liliana Capitão; Adriana Sampaio. Corresponding author: Adriana Sampaio. "Unveiling hidden scars: How early life adversity influences emotional processing at the adolescent period". Psychological Medicine (2025):
    Submitted
  5. Baião, Rita; Fearon, Pasco; Belsky, Jay; Baptista, Joana; Carneiro, Alexandra; Pinto, Raquel; Nogueira, Marlene; et al. "Child’s oxytocin response to mother-child interaction: The contribution of child genetics and maternal behavior". Psychoneuroendocrinology 102 (2019): 79-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.11.022.
    Published • 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.11.022
  6. Luna, Karlos; Nogueira, Marlene; Albuquerque, Pedro B.. "Words in larger font are perceived as more important: explaining the belief that font size affects memory". Memory 27 4 (2018): 555-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1529797.
    Published • 10.1080/09658211.2018.1529797
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "The impact of residential rearing on the adolescent brain: the contribution of epigenetic mechanisms". PhD, Universidade do Minho, 2024.
  2. Nogueira, Marlene Sofia Belinho. "The impact of early life experiences on oxytocinergic system modulation: implications on social behavior development". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/44398.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07 Structural and functional connectivity of the frontostriatal circuitry in currently institutionalized adolescents International Attachment Conference (IAC)
University of Rouen (Rouen, France)
2024/07 Unveiling hidden scars: How early life adversity influences emotional processing at the adolescent period. International Attachment Conference (IAC)
University of Rouen (Rouen, France)
2024/06 The impact of early life adversity in emotion processing in adolescents. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/05/29 Structural brain correlates of childhood maltreatment: a coordinate-based meta-analysis. IX International IMFAHE Conference: Innovation Camp “Career Success with a Global Mindset”
International Mentoring Foundation for the Advancement of Higher Education (IMFAHE) (Boston, United States)
2022/07/15 Capitão L., Nogueira M., Oliveira P., Sousa S. S., Soares I., Sampaio A., Mesquita A. R. 2022. Emotional processing in Portuguese adolescents in institutional care. International Attachment Conference (IAC)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 Assessment of brain functional connectivity at resting state of adolescents with early adverse experiences: the contribution of epigenetic mechanisms PERL Meeting
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/03 - 2024/06 Patterns of epigenetic reaction in response to early life adversity
Co-supervisor
 Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/06 Study of DNA methylation pattern of stress-related gene and exposure to early adversity in institutionalized adolescents
Co-supervisor
 Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/01/01 - 2023/05/16 The 'Doctoral Symposium PSI.UNorte' (SIMPSI) is promoted by the Psychology Consortium UNorte, which is composed of the School of Psychology at the University of Minho, the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, and the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The main objective of the event is to foster a culture of collaboration among students, researchers, faculty, and psychologists from the three institutions, aiming to share knowledge in research and practice. (2023/05/14 - 2023/05/16)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/11 - 2022/02 The 'Doctoral Symposium PSI.UNorte' (SIMPSI) is promoted by the Psychology Consortium UNorte, which is composed of the School of Psychology at the University of Minho, the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, and the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The main objective of the event is to foster a culture of collaboration among students, researchers, faculty, and psychologists from the three institutions, aiming to share knowledge in research and practice. (2022/02/03 - 2022/02/04)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2013/02/27 - 2013/03/01 The Applied Biology Conference is organized annually by a committee of final-year students from this undergraduate program at the University of Minho, representing a tradition at this institution and attracting an increasing number of students and researchers from across the country. At this scientific dissemination event, participants can attend lectures by speakers from various fields of Biology, as well as take part in workshops and informal discussion activities on scientific research and professional careers in the life sciences. (2013/02/27 - 2013/03/01)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/03/15 - Current Included in the context of the Brain Awareness Week, and as part of the initiative "The Future Begins in the Cradle", the interactive workshop "Brain Detectives" invites children (ages 3-12) and their families to explore the wonders of the brain. Through engaging activities, participants will learn about brain functions, neuroplasticity, and how our brains help us think, feel, and grow. Designed to be fun and educational, the session will encourage curiosity about neuroscience in an accessible and playful way.
Workshop
 The Future Begins in the Cradle
ProChild CoLAB, Portugal
2019/03/12 - 2019/03/12 Workshop "From the Lab to the World: Why is it Important to Communicate Science?" Although we live in the age of knowledge, we are daily bombarded with various types and sources of information. However, this information does not always reach us in the most appropriate and accurate way, especially when it comes to scientific work. This workshop aimed to raise awareness about the challenges of science communication: fake science news and the media, scientific journalism, and the role of researchers in disseminating their work.
Workshop
 I Jornadas da Ciência
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - 2024 Portuguese Society of Neuroscience Membro
2013/10/22 - 2014/10/29 Applied Biology Student Union Vice-Presidente do Departamento Científico

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019 - 2023 Course Committee of the Doctoral Program in Basic Psychology at the School of Psychology of the University of Minho
Member
2018/02/06 - 2021/12/31 Member of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Psychology at the University of Minho
Member
 Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018/09/27 - 2019/01/15 Introduction to Neurosciences - Teaching of theoretical and practical classes Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2018/02/20 - 2018/07/22 Laboratory I - Neuroscience, Teaching of practical classes Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2017/09/25 - 2018/01/20 Introduction to Neurosciences - Teaching of theoretical and practical classes. Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/12 - 2025/07 International Mentoring Program from IMFAHE International Student