Teacher
J. C. Carmo

Resume

Joana Costa do Carmo completed her license degree in Psychology in 2004 by Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia (Lisboa, Portugal). She is a Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience by Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA, Italy, 2010) and a Master in Cognitive Science by the Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands, 2006). Joana is currently an Assistant Researcher at Universidade Lusófona (from 2022 - present). Her research framework falls under the Cognitive Science's umbrella, with work developed mostly within the disciplines of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuropsychology. Her current work is organized in three main lines: 1) Studies in Autism Spectrum Disorder; 2) Memory studies, and 3) the cross between those - Memory studies in Autism. Joana was a visiting researcher at RIKEN - Brain Science Institute (Tokyo, Japan) and has been a visiting researcher and a collaborator at RPTU (former Kaiserslautern Technical University, Germany). She Co-supervised 1 PhD thesis(es) and supervised 7 MSc dissertation(s). In her professional activities, she interacted with 40 collaborator(s) co-authorshiping of scientific papers. She has both national and international solid and long-standing multi-centered and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Psychology
• Master
  Cognitive Science
• Doctor of Philosophy
  Neuroscience
• Pós-Graduação
  Neuropsychological Intervention: Evaluation and Rehabilitation

Publicações

Preprint

• 2023-01-30, Conversational turn-taking in autism spectrum disorder

Journal article

• 2026, Segregation between sub-second and supra-second timing skills in autism: Reduced accuracy in the sub-second motor production but no differences in anisochrony detection, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• 2026, Neural signatures of naming retrieval: Theta and Alpha oscillatory dynamics dissociate objects, people, and places, Cognitive Neuropsychology
• 2025, Neural correlates of semantic typicality during episodic memory retrieval in autism spectrum disorder, Scientific Reports
• 2023-09-25, Editorial: Bridging the initiation of a response hypothesis in autism: from language to motor action, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2023-06-24, Sub-second timing irregularities in a simple motor task in autism spectrum disorder: Preliminary effects of intermittent light stimulation, Journal of Neuropsychology
• 2022-09-26, Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2022-01-06, Conceptual knowledge modulates memory recognition of common items: The selective role of item-typicality, Memory & Cognition
• 2022, The distinctive pattern of declarative memories in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Further evidence of episodic system., Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 2022, Norms for pictures of proper names: Contrasting famous people and well-known places in younger and older adults., Behavior Research Methods
• 2022, Is the dolphin a fish? ERP evidence for the impact of typicality during early visual processing in ultra-rapid semantic categorization in autism spectrum disorder, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• 2021-12-04, A Systematic Review of Normative Studies Using Images of Common Objects, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2021-06-16, The update of semantic memories in amnestic mild cognitive impairment, Journal of Neuropsychology
• 2021-02-10, RealPic: Picture norms of real-world common items, Behavior Research Methods
• 2020-12-04, We see the orange not the lemon: typicality effects in ultra-rapid categorization in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder, Journal of Neuropsychology
• 2018-10-10, Holistic processing of faces is intact in adults with autism spectrum disorder, Visual Cognition
• 2017-12, Over-imitation in autism spectrum disorder: causally opaque and transparent actions, Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
• 2017-08-15, Effects of categorical representation on visuospatial working memory in autism spectrum disorder, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
• 2017-01-31, Brief Report: Testing the Impairment of Initiation Processes Hypothesis in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 2017, The content boundaries of natural categories in high-functioning young adults with autism spectrum disorder, Psique
• 2016-12, Contextual effects on visual short-term memory in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• 2016-07-26, Preserved Proactive Interference in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 2015-07-24, Verbal fluency as a function of time in autism spectrum disorder: An impairment of initiation processes?, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
• 2013, Preserved Imitation of Known Gestures in Children with High-Functioning Autism, ISRN Neurology
• 2012-10-10, Understanding and Imitating Unfamiliar Actions: Distinct Underlying Mechanisms, PLoS ONE
• 2009-08-27, Neuropsychological perspectives on the mechanisms of imitation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• 2009-04, Imitation of transitive and intransitive actions in healthy individuals, Brain and Cognition

Encyclopedia entry

• Proactive Interference in ASD, Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Autism in Portugal, Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Conference paper

• Inception based deep learning: Biometric identification using electroencephalography (EEG), International symposium on networks, computers and communications, 2023
• Avatar-Enabled Virtual Therapist Application for Cognitive Rehabilitation Intervention in Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Stroke Patients, ICDVRAT - International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies
• 2024, Assessing Oxygenation Changes using fNIRS in a Time-Pressure Task, ICDVRAT - International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies

Conference poster

• 2025, Typicality, Encoding, and Neurodivergence in Recognition Memory: Cognitive Strategies in Autism vs. Neurotypical Adults, ESCOP
• 2025, Neural Dynamics Of Recognition Memory In Autism: Erp Evidence For Differential Engagement Of Familiarity And Recollection, 15th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON)
• 2023-05, Do autistic individuals access conceptual knowledge during episodic retrieval? Examining memory systems interplay by theta and alpha coherence along frontoposterior regions, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Regional Meeting
• 2023, Towards the neural dissociation of proper and common names: dissociating Theta and Alpha oscillatory dynamics in naming retrieval of objects, people and places, APPE
• 2022-07, Naming of topography: long-lasting theta and long-lasting alpha dissociable oscillatory activity, International Neuropsychology Society Meeting
• 2021-05, Episodic memory deficits in ASD as reflected in ERP and theta oscillatory activity: the old-new effect, XVI PhD meeting in Psychology. A whole new world: implications for Psychology
• 2019-05, Naming and rating images of famous people and well-known places in adulthood: a normative study of 80 images, XV PhD Meeting in Psychology
• 2018-08-01, The modulation of conceptual knowledge in memory retrieval in Alzheimer's Disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examining the role of the hippocampus., 8th IPRMS NeuroCom Summer School
• 2018-06-01, When we remember the most what is atypical: The modulation of episodic recollection by conceptual knowledge., Encontro Ciência 2018 - Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal
• 2018-04, Picture norms for emotional, semantic and perceptual dimensions: A Portuguese standardization of 360 real-world colored photographs, 13º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental