Program

March 25th 2022
The centrality of Cognitive Neuroscience to Psychological Research

09h30 – Opening of the Series

Óscar Gonçalves
Co-Organizer; Full Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra
Paula Paixão
Director of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra

09h45 – Opening remarks

Jorge Almeida
Co-Organizer; Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra

10h00 – The centrality of Cognitive Neuroscience to Psychological Research I

10h00 – Maria Ruz
Neurosexism: a sin of reverse inference
Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center at the University of Granada, Spain.
10h45 – Patrícia Figueiredo
Searching for electrophysiological correlates of fMRI networks dynamics.
Coordinator, Biomedical Engineering Lab (LaSEEB), Institute for Systems and Robotics – Lisboa (ISR-Lisboa); Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
11h30 – Melvyn Goodale
Size constancy: How our brain creates a stable world from the ever-changing images on our eyes.
Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience and Interim Director of the new Western Institute for Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

12h15 – 14h00
Lunch break

14h00 – The centrality of Cognitive Neuroscience to Psychological Research II

14h00 – Bradford Mahon (through Zoom)
The role of the ventral and dorsal streams in action and perception.
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
14h45 – Adrian Owen (through Zoom)
The Search For Consciousness: The Role of Neuroimaging.
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging in the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
15h30 – Kalanit Grill-Spector
Human visual cortex as a window into the developing brain.
Full Professor at the Department of Psychology, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, USA.

16h15 – An integrative view of Neuroscience

Ana Luísa Carvalho
Full Professor, Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (CNC)

16h30 – Closing Remarks

17h00 – Social reception and Exhibition “NeuroArte – Os sinais da vida”