Alexandra Reis

Alexandra Reis

Email: aireis@ualg.pt

Página pessoal: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5598-0999

Institutional Address

Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais – Departamento de Psicologia e Ciência da Educação – Campus de Gambelas – Universidade do Algarve, 8000-810 Faro.

Main Interests

Cognitive Neuroscience (Neuropsychology/Cognitive Psychology): language processing, memory, visual cognition, cross-cultural issues.

I undertook this professional activity in 1992, at the Laboratory for Language Studies, at the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon, Portugal, assessing brain-damaged patients, while conducting research on the modulatory influence of formal schooling and literacy on human cognition. In 1995, I began collaborating with the Cognitive Neurophisiology Research Group, at the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden. Ever since, my main line of investigation has been focussed on cognitive neuroscience, mainly researching, on its different levels – behavioural, functional and anatomical -, the implications of literacy / illiteracy on the human brain. The focus of this research has been aimed at both language (phonological processing) and visual systems, and the interface between them.

Present Position

Associate Professor with aggregation at the University of Algarve.

Academic Qualifications

Degree PhD in Biomedical Science (Psychology) by the Lisbon Medical School (1997); Degree in Clinical Psychology by the Higher Institute of Applied Psychology (1991).

Prizes

Prémio Ceratonia/CGD 2009 – O estudo de aprendizagens implícitas em sujeitos disléxicos.

Prémio Bayer 1996 da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia com o trabalho “The illiterate brain: the influence of analog magnitude on a digit span task”.

Prémio Pfizer de Investigação 1999: Castro-Caldas, A. & Reis, A. “A adaptação bio-funcional do cérebro ao conhecimento da leitura e da escrita”.