Docente
Tiago Paiva

Resume

I am a Cognitive Neuroscience researcher with expertise in cognitive science, neuroimaging, and experimental psychology. I completed my PhD in Experimental Neuroscience in 2020 at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. My work focuses on the cognitive and neurobiological correlates of decision-making and aggression, with particular strengths in applying experimental neuroscience approaches to the understanding of human behaviour. Educational background and key qualifications. My main academic achievements include a PhD in Experimental Neuroscience, awarded in 2020 by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, and an Integrated Master’s degree in Psychology, awarded in 2012 by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. My academic background combines psychology and neuroscience, with a PhD dissertation on the neurobiological bases of psychopathic traits and a Master’s dissertation on the neurophysiology of normal and impaired auditory processing. These achievements provided me with strong expertise in neurophysiology, experimental neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience. During my PhD, I was awarded a doctoral scholarship from the Portuguese national funding agency (FCT) and developed coordination and organisational skills as a core team member of the Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology at the University of Porto. My qualifications have been further strengthened through specialised training in Neuroimaging through the Donders Toolkit at Radboud University (2013), EEG/ERPs at the University of Porto (2010), and computational models for social cognition at the University of Birmingham (2025). Employment history and progression. I have been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education, Lusófona University – Porto University Centre, since 2022, where I hold a career faculty position and teach in the Psychology degree, the Master’s in Clinical Neuropsychology, and the PhD programme. In addition to my teaching and research duties, I currently serve as Coordinator of the Mental Health and Clinical Science Laboratory and Vice-Director of HEI-Lab. Previously, from 2020 to 2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, University of Porto, where I extended my doctoral research both methodologically, through the use of fMRI, and conceptually, by applying neuroimaging approaches to the characterisation of social outcomes in psychopathy. During this period, I also completed a research stay at the Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), University of Granada. Before starting my PhD, I held a teaching and research contract at Católica Porto Business School (2013-2014), where I worked as a research assistant at the Behavioural Economics Laboratory.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  Programa Doutoral em Neurociências
• Licenciatura
  Licenciatura em Ciências Psicológicas
• Mestrado
  Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia

Publicações

Journal article

• 2025-10-23, Do white matter microstructural alterations associated with childhood maltreatment explain psychopathology in early adulthood?—a longitudinal neuroimaging study, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• 2024-11, The unusual suspects: A systematic search for the molecular and cellular correlates of human aggression, Aggression and Violent Behavior
• 2024-03-26, Light Cannabis Use and the Adolescent Brain: An 8-years Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health, Cognition, and Reward Processing, Psychopharmacology
• 2023-07-28, Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Comorbidity in Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology: An RDoC Multimethod Assessment, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
• 2023-06-19, Modeling relations between event-related potential factors and broader versus narrower dimensions of externalizing psychopathology., Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
• 2023-05-12, Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
• 2021-11-03, Subjective Memory Complaints and Decision Making in Young and Older Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
• 2021-05-31, An ERP study on facial emotion processing in young people with subjective memory complaints, Scientific Reports
• 2021-04-30, Boldness personality traits are associated with reduced risk perceptions and the adoption of protective behaviors during the first COVID-19 outbreak, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2021-03-31, Abnormal habituation of the auditory event-related potential P2 component in patients with Schizophrenia, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2020-10-16, The AGE Effect on Protective Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Sociodemographic, Perceptions and Psychological Accounts, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2020-03-13, The neurophysiological correlates of the triarchic model of psychopathy: An approach to the basic mechanisms of threat conditioning and inhibitory control, Psychophysiology
• 2020-03-13, Neurophysiological Correlates of the Near-Miss Effect in Gambling, Journal of Gambling Studies
• 2020-03, Further evaluation of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure: Evidence from community adult and prisoner samples from Portugal., Psychological Assessment
• 2019-11, Effect of Computer-Simulated Leaders: Compromise on Members Emotional State and Protest Behavior, Experimental Psychology
• 2019, The multiple facets of psychopathy in attack and defense conflicts, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• 2018-12, ERN modulation under sustained threat: A pre-registered report, Journal of Research in Personality
• 2018-07, Effects of 3D Contemplative Landscape Videos on Brain Activity in a Passive Exposure EEG Experiment, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2018-04-05, European Portuguese adaptation and validation of dilemmas used to assess moral decision-making, Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• 2017-03-16, Psychopathy, criminal intentions, and abnormal appraisal of the expected outcomes of theft, Legal and Criminological Psychology
• 2017-03-01, Registered Replication Report: Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012), Perspectives on Psychological Science
• 2016, Similar sound intensity dependence of the N1 and P2 components of the auditory ERP: Averaged and single trial evidence, Clinical Neurophysiology
• 2016, Perceived arousal of facial expressions of emotion modulates the N170, regardless of emotional category: Time domain and time–frequency dynamics, International Journal of Psychophysiology
• 2016, Assessing a novel polymer-wick based electrode for EEG neurophysiological research, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
• 2015, Empathic, moral and antisocial outcomes associated with distinct components of psychopathy in healthy individuals: a Triarchic model approach, Personality and Individual Differences
• 2014, Effects of inter-stimulus interval (ISI) duration on the N1 and P2 components of the auditory event-related potential, International Journal of Psychophysiology
• 2012, Suppression of the intensity dependence of P2 auditory ERP component by continuous variation of stimuli intensity[Sup], International Journal of Psychophysiology

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2020-10-14, PhD, Disentangling Dimensions of Psychopathy
• 2012-11, Master, A dissociação experimental de N1 e P2: dois componentes distintos do potencial relacionado com eventos auditivos

Book chapter

• 2025, Electroencephalography
• 2013, A dissociação experimental de N1 e P2: Dois componentes distintos do potencial relacionado com eventos auditivos, VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia

Conference paper

• The role of affective dimensions and face typicality in emotional face processing: an ERP study.
• From certainty to chaos: dissociating risk and ambiguity in the human brain, 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2025)
• A tarefa moral-convencional estendida: aspectos conceptuais e metodológicos

Conference abstract

• 2018, Investigating the role of affective dimensions (arousal and valence) in the neural processing of facial expressions of emotion [Abstract], Program and Abstracts of the 12th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation
• 2016, Nonlinear processing of emotional information: Behavioral evidence and neurophysiological correlates, 11th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation
• 2016, Can dimensional and categorical models of the perception of facial expressions of emotion be integrated in an affective predictive coding framework?, 11th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation
• 2013, The Electrocortical Response to the Perception of Pain is Modulated by Group Membership, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
• 2013, Hysteresis effect in the processing of facial expressions of emotion and its neurophysiological correlates, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
• 2013, Gaze Perception and Perception of Social Threat in Patients with Paranoid Schizophrenia: an ERP Study, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophisiological Research
• 2013, Disentanglement of the N1 and P2 components of the auditory ERP through a single-trial analysis of its habituation properties , 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophisiological Research
• 2012, Suppression of the intensity dependence of P2 auditory ERP component by continuous variation of stimuli intensity, 16th World Congress of Psychophysiology

Conference poster

• 2024-04, DECISION-MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY – ERP CORRELATES OF RISK AND AMBIGUITY PROCESSING IN AN ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING TASK, Congresso BIAL, Aquém e Além do Cérebro
• 2023-07, Registered Report: Decision-making under uncertainty ¿ ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity processing in an economic decision-making task, XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva
• 2019-09, 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, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
• 2019-05-03, The Triarchic Model of Psychopathy: ERP evidence for Trait Fearlessness and Externalizing, annual Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Conference
• 2018-07, Psychopathy and psychosocial stress: a phenotypic approach, First Joint Congress of the SEPEX, SEPNECA and AIP experimental
• 2016-07, PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS EFFECTS ON PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN SUBJECTS WITH HIGHER AND LOWER PSYCHOPATHY SCORES: THE ROLE OF SEX, X Congress of the Spanish Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• 2016-06, The Neural Bases of the Black-Sheep Effect, 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Social and Affective Neuroscience
• 2016-06, Stimulus in moral judgment and theory of mind tasks: a validation study for the Portuguese population, 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• 2016-06, Stimuli in moral judgment and theory of mind tasks: a validation study for the Portuguese population, 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, Portugal
• 2016-06, Psychopathy and non-linear processing of facial expressions of emotion, 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, Portugal
• 2013-10-03, HYSTERESIS EFFECT IN THE PROCESSING OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTION AND ITS NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
• 2013-10, Gaze Perception and Perception of Social Threat in Patients with Paranoid Schizophrenia: an ERP Study, 53th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
• 2013, Disentanglement of the N1 and P2 components of the auditory ERP through a single-trial analysis of its habituation properties , 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophisiological Research
• 2012, The suppression of the intensity dependence of P2 auditory ERP component by continuous variation of the stimuli intensity, 16th World Congress of Psychophysiology
• 2012, Extending the Moral-Conventional Task: Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of the judgment of moral transgressions, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 20th Meeting
• 2011, Dissociation of N1 and P2 Event-Related Potential (ERP) components by parametric manipulation of stimulus properties, XII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience

Other output

• 2025, Electroencephalographic signatures during pregnancy and their role on parenting-related measures, a scoping review protocol
• 2018-07-27, Disentangling the Role of Face Typicality and Affect in Emotional Face Processing: Self-reported and Electrophysiological Evidence