Docente
Prune Mazer

Resume

Prune Mazer. Completed the Doutoramento in Neurociências in 2026/07/06 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Doutoramento in Neurociências in 2026/07/06 by Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar and Licenciatura in Neurophysiology in 2015/09/08 by Instituto Politécnico do Porto - Escola Superior de Saúde. Is Invited Assistant in Instituto Politécnico do Porto - Escola Superior de Saúde and Invited Assistant Professor in Universidade Lusófona do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia Educação e Desporto. Published 13 articles in journals. Organized 8 event(s). Participated in 13 event(s). Supervised 4 MSc dissertation(s). Supervised 5 work(s) of course completion of LSc/BSc e co-supervised 3. Has received 10 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s) and Research Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Basic Medicine with emphasis on Neurosciences, Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Basic Medicine with emphasis on Anatomy and mMrphology, Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology, Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Clinical Medicine with emphasis on Psychiatry and Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Health Sciences with emphasis on Sport and Fitness Sciences. In their professional activities interacted with 105 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Psychopathy; Personality; Antisocial; Empathy; Theory of mind; Affective sharing; Emotion processing; Face processing; Development; EEG/ERP; Interações Homem-ambiente; Processos cognitivo-emocionais; Modelação comportamental; Sistemas de Design; Schizophrenia; Auditory; EEG; Event-related potentials; Habituation; N1; P2; Ciências da saúde; Health sciences; ADHD; ERP/EEG; P300; Methylphenidate; Meta-analysis; ERP; Predictive processing; Autism; PSICOLOGIA; PSICOPATIAS; COMPORTAMENTO ANTISSOCIAL; PERSONALIDADE; EMPATIA; TEORIA DA MENTE; COGNIÇÃO SOCIAL; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPATHIES; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; PERSONALITY; EMPATHY; THEORY OF THE MIND; SOCIAL COGNITION; MMN; Visual; .

Graus

• Licenciate Degree
  Neurophysiology
• Doctorate
  Neurociências
• Postgraduate Program
  Health Data Science
• Others
  Saúde Digital

Publicações

Preprint

• 2025-05-31, Task demand effects on Visual and Auditory MMN across autistic and schizotypal traits
• 2025-01-30, How distinct autism and schizotypal trait dimensions influence neural predictive processing: An Event-related potential study
• 2023-06-29, Systematic review and meta-analysis of the visual mismatch negativity in Schizophrenia

Journal article

• 2026-09, Effects of caffeine on P300: A systematic review and meta-analysis, International Journal of Psychophysiology
• 2026-06-07, N170 and N250 in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
• 2026-04, Analysis of Task Demand Effects on Visual and Auditory Mismatch Negativity (MMN) Across Autistic and Schizotypal Traits, European Journal of Neuroscience
• 2025-08, Predictive processing and autistic traits: Neurophysiological evidence across sensory modalities and task demands, Neuroscience
• 2025-08, How distinct autism and schizotypal trait dimensions influence neural predictive processing: An Event-related potential study, Brain and Cognition
• 2025-05, Methylphenidate and P300 in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis, International Journal of Psychophysiology
• 2024-05-13, Systematic review and meta-analysis of the visual mismatch negativity in schizophrenia, European Journal of Neuroscience
• 2024, Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population: A scoping review and meta-analysis, Biological Psychology
• 2022, Refining the link between psychopathy, antisocial behavior, and empathy: a meta-analytical approach across different conceptual frameworks, Clinical Psychology Review
• 2021, Abnormal habituation of the auditory event-related potential P2 component in patients with schizophrenia, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2019-07, Callousness and meanness traits are associated with increased N2 amplitude in a community sample of adolescents and adults, Neuroscience Letters

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2026-07-06, PhD, Abnormal Predictive Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia: A Neurophysiological study

Online resource

• 2023-04-28, Predictive Processing in Autistic and Schizotypal traits: A Neurophysiological study, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7T2KD
• 2022-06-14, Autistic traits and Event-related potentials in the general population: protocol for a scoping review and meta-analysis, https://osf.io/z2n86

Conference paper

• Preliminary Neurophysiological Findings on Predictive Processing in Individuals with Autistic and Schizotypal Traits, International Neuroscience Conference (NEURO-2023)
• Mazer, P., Pasion, R., Silveira, C., & Ferreira-Santos, F. (2025). Predictive processing and autistic traits: Neurophysiological evidence across sensory modalities and task demands. Neuroscience - Proceedings of the International Conference of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA 2025), 580(Suppl.), S64.
• Emotional Symptoms and Affective Face Processing in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional ERP study

Conference abstract

• 2018-10-28, Designing facial expression stimuli for basic and clinical research: Preliminary data on the Porto Affective Faces Set, XI Congreso Internacional y XVI Nacional de Psicología Clínica

Conference poster

• 2025-08-08, Mazer, P., Pasion, R., Silveira, C., & Ferreira-Santos, F. (2025). Neurophysiological markers of Social and Non-Social dimensions of Autism: A Predictive Processing perspective. [Poster]. 9th Congress of the Serbian Neuroscience Society, Belgrade, Serbia.
• 2023-05, The importance of the stimuli type in ERP studies with autistic traits, Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS)
• 2022-07, Autistic traits and N170 in a continuum of symptom severity: A systematic literature review, European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students 2022, Paris, France
• 2022-07, P300 and autistic traits in adults: A meta-analytical approach., European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2023, Vienna, Austria
• 2019, The influence of child-parent attachment in early and late processing of facial expressions of emotions: an ERP study with children between 4- and 15-years-old, The Future of Neuroscience, Attachment and Mentalizing – from research to clinical practice,
• 2019, Frontal alpha asymmetry and emotional symptoms: a cross-sectional study with children between 4 and 15 years old., Cognitive and Developmental section joint conference from British Psychological Society

Other output

• 2025, Does attention to cardiac sensations modulate heartbeat-evoked potentials even after controlling for cognitive demands?, Heartbeat-evoked potentials (HEP) have been shown to be modulated by attentional focus (cardiac vs. exteroceptive attention), suggesting that HEP are a neural correlate of interoceptive prediction errors. However, this effect has not been consistently replicated, and differences in cognitive effort when contrasting interoceptive vs. exteroceptive attention may be a confounding factor. We devised a
• 2024, Cardiac interoceptive processing across psychopathy dimensions: evidence from the heartbeat tapping task and the attentional modulation of heartbeat-evoked potentials, Psychopathy is a multidimensional personality structure encompassing interpersonal, affective, and behavioral traits. Interoception (ability to perceive and subjectively experience inner bodily states) may be a putative mechanism underlying the etiological pathways of psychopathy. Individual differences in interoceptive processing across psychopathy dimensions may interfere with the ability to per
• 2023-04-15, Event-related potentials associated to N-back test in older adults
• 2023-02, N170 in Mild and Major Cognitive Impairment: A meta-analysis