Teaching Activities
Teaching Year Semester Course Name Degree(s) Coordinator
2025/2026 Psychophysiology and Genetics Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2025/2026 Neuropsychology Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2025/2026 Biological Bases of Emotions Master Degree in Emotion Sciences; Yes
2025/2026 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2025/2026 Master Dissertation in Emotion Sciences Master Degree in Emotion Sciences; Yes
2025/2026 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2024/2025 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2024/2025 Psychophysiology and Genetics Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2024/2025 Neuropsychology Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2024/2025 Reasoning and Language -- Yes
2024/2025 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2023/2024 Biological Bases of Emotions -- Yes
2023/2024 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2023/2024 Perspectives & Theories of Emotion -- Yes
2023/2024 Master Dissertation in Emotion Sciences -- No
2023/2024 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2023/2024 Internship in Social and Organizational Psychology -- No
2022/2023 Applied Project in Emotion Sciences -- Yes
2022/2023 Training of Academic Skills in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; Yes
2022/2023 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2022/2023 Psychophysiology and Genetics Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2022/2023 Neuropsychology Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2022/2023 Reasoning and Language Bachelor Degree in Psychology; No
2022/2023 Biological Bases of Emotions -- Yes
2022/2023 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2022/2023 Master Dissertation in Emotion Sciences -- Yes
2022/2023 Applied Project in Emotion Sciences -- Yes
2022/2023 Training of Academic Skills in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; Yes
2021/2022 Psychophysiology and Genetics Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2021/2022 Neuropsychology Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2021/2022 Reasoning and Language Bachelor Degree in Psychology; No
2021/2022 Biological Bases of Emotions -- Yes
2021/2022 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2021/2022 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology -- No
2020/2021 Project Seminar in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2020/2021 Psychophysiology and Genetics Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2020/2021 Neuropsychology Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2020/2021 Reasoning and Language Bachelor Degree in Psychology; No
2020/2021 Biological Bases of Emotions -- Yes
2020/2021 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2020/2021 Project Seminar in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2020/2021 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2019/2020 Dissertation in Social and Organizational Psychology -- No
2019/2020 Advances in Emotions Neurociences -- Yes
2019/2020 Research Seminar in Psychology - Advanced Issues -- No
2019/2020 Project Seminar in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2019/2020 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology IV -- No
2019/2020 Psychophysiology and Genetics Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2019/2020 Neuropsychology Bachelor Degree in Psychology; Yes
2019/2020 Reasoning and Language Bachelor Degree in Psychology; No
2019/2020 Dissertation in Social and Organizational Psychology -- No
2019/2020 Biological Bases of Emotions -- Yes
2019/2020 Cognition & Emotion -- Yes
2019/2020 Research Seminar in Psychology - Advanced Issues -- No
2019/2020 Project Seminar in Psychology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Psychology; No
2019/2020 Doctoral Thesis in Psychology III -- No
Supervisions
Post-doc Supervisions (1)
Ongoing (1)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Status Institution Initial Year
Marta Martins Music for the development of socio-emotional skills Portuguese Developing Iscte --
Ph.D. Thesis (10)
Ongoing (6)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Status Institution Initial Year
Leonor Neves How does musical training affect socio-emotional abilities in children? A behavioural and neuroimaging longitudinal study English Developing Iscte 2018
Ricardo Jorge Ferrão Vilaverde Understanding Sensorimotor Contributions to Vocal Emotional Processing English Developing Iscte 2022
Aíssa Mariama Nascimento Baldé Contributions of Low-level Auditory Processing to Musical Abilities and Speech Perception Portuguese Developing Iscte 2022
Rafael Ramos Ribeiro “Now I’ve got that feeling once again, I can’t explain, you wouldn’t understand”: Emotional granularity, language, and music Portuguese Developing Universidade Católica Portuguesa 2022
Rui Paulo Vasconcelos Ferreira de Sousa Does Musical Aptitude Predict Musical Achievement in Adolescents? English Developing Iscte --
Aissa Mariama Nascimento Baldé Contributions of Low-level Auditory Processing to Musical Abilities and Speech Perception English Developing Iscte --
Concluded (4)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Institution Initial Year Concluding Year
Ana Isabel Costa Correia Correlates of music training: Plasticity or predispositions? English Iscte 2020 2024
Teresa Leonor Araújo Neves Does music training provide non-musical benefits? Evidence from auditory, linguistic, and socio emotional processing English Iscte 2019 2024
Helena Sousa Moreira Assessing Executive Functions and Emotion Recognition Abilities in Mild Cognitive Impairment English Universidade do Porto -- 2021
Helena Moreira Défice cognitivo ligeiro com disfunção executiva: Caracterização neuropsicológica, correlatos estruturais e evolução clínica English Iscte 2015 2020
M.Sc. Dissertations (26)
Ongoing (3)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Status Institution Initial Year
Ana Margarida Bastos Moreira Lima Music and cultural variation in emotion recognition Portuguese Delivered Iscte 2024
Lilian Rivera Garcia Goldsmith Dance Sophistication Index: validação para o contexto português Developing Iscte 2024
Manuel Tomás Martins Gomes Musical expertise and brain structure: A study with musical sleepers Portuguese Developing Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto 2023
Concluded (23)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Institution Initial Year Concluding Year
Raquel dos Santos Machado Effects of mindfulness practice on brain morphology: a systematic review of literature Portuguese Iscte 2023 2023
Estella Lima Association between music training and components of socioemotional processing in young adults Portuguese Ispa 2021 2022
Elisabete Sofia Nabais de Oliveira de Freitas e Menezes The time course of authenticity and valence perception in nonverbal emotional vocalizations English Iscte 2022 2022
Vera Botelho Moniz Feu Guerreiro The Impact of an Emotional Granularity Training on the Emotional Regulation in Adolescents Portuguese Iscte 2021 2022
Rui Mergulhao Mendes Associations between Vocal Emotion Processing and Traitof Psychopathy, Autism and Alexithymia. Portuguese Iscte 2021 2022
Alexandre Santos Exploring associations between musical sophistication and emotion recognition in individuals differing in musical abilitie Portuguese Universidade de Lisboa 2020 2021
Ricardo Francisco Pianos and microfones: Does the type of musical training affect emotion recognition? Portuguese Universidade de Lisboa 2020 2021
Aissa Mariama Nascimento Baldé Music and Vocal Emotions Portuguese Iscte 2020 2021
Duarte Maria Stock da Cunha Santiago Pinto User Emotional Interaction Processor: A tool to support the development of GUIs through physiological user monitoring English Iscte 2021 2021
Ana Rita Patinha Pires Emotional Contagion and Authenticity Detection in Nonverbal Vocalizations: Behavioral and Psychophysiological Study Portuguese Iscte 2018 2019
Ricardo Jorge Ferrão Vilaverde Exploring the relationship between trait mindfulness and emotion recognition in faces and voices. Portuguese Iscte 2018 2019
Ana Isabel Correia English Universidade do Porto -- 2016
Ana Isabel Correia Brain structure correlates of emotional speech prosody recognition in children English Iscte 2015 2016
Teresa Leonor Neves English Universidade do Porto -- 2015
Ana Carolina Cordeiro Portuguese Universidade do Porto -- 2015
Ana Pinto Esquível Portuguese Universidade do Porto -- 2015
Ana Carolina Cordeiro Diferenças de idade no processamento de vocalizações emocionais English Iscte 2014 2015
Olivia Brancatisano Decoding of Emotions In Prosody and Nonverbal Vocalisations in Congenital Amusia English Iscte 2014 2015
Olivia Helen Brancatisano English Goldsmiths, University of London -- 2014
Tiago José Alves Portuguese Universidade do Porto -- 2013
Ana Catarina Monteiro Portuguese Universidade do Porto -- 2013
Tiago Alves Aging and vocal emotional processing English Iscte 2012 2013
Ana Catarina Monteiro Reconhecimento Emocional em Vocalizações não Verbais: O papel do treino musical, discriminação da altura tonal e deliberação English Iscte 2012 2013