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Eunice Gomes Fernandes

Gabinete 1.06
eunice.fernandes@psi.uminho.pt | 253604223
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Teaching
  • Investigador com docência
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    Departamento de Psicologia Básica, Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho
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  • Investigador Auxiliar
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    Centro de Investigação em Psicologia (CIPsi), Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho
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Eunice G. Fernandes is an Auxiliar Researcher at the School of Psychology from the University of Minho (UM). She is also a member of the Psychology Research Centre (CIPsi) at the same university, where she is conducting the research project ‘Language in social context: Pragmatic processing during comprehension in old age and bilingualism’. Since her PhD in Cognitive Science, awarded in 2015, she has held three postdoctoral positions at the University Paris-Diderot (France), the University of Aberdeen (UK) and the University of Agder (Norway). Her main interest is on how people comprehend language, and why and how Comprehension may differ in monolingual and bilingual speakers, and in young and older adults. She has also an interest in Gaze Following, a social attention mechanism whereby people tend to look at where others are looking, and which is known to be affected by normal ageing. Her current research project at UM will examine how gaze cues are used to support language comprehension in healthy ageing and in mono- and bilingual speakers. She is also interested in other areas of Human Cognition like Visual Attention, and in interdisciplinary research, for example, looking at links between cognitive function, language processing, and other non-cognitive aspects such as physical health. She works with different paradigms and has expertise in eye-tracking and state-of-the-art statistics for linguistic data. She has collaborations with researchers nationally and internationally and has published in international high-impact journals. 

Education
Línguas e Literaturas Modernas - Estudos Portugueses
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Licenciatura
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Estudos Românicos
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Universidade de Lisboa
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Mestrado
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Ciência Cognitiva
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Universidade de Lisboa
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Doutoramento
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Teaching
Assistente
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
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Assistente
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Universidade de Aberdeen, Faculdade de Psicologia
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Assistente
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Universidade de Agder
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Research
Pós-doutorado
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Universidade Paris-Diderot
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Pós-doutorado
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Universidade de Aberdeen
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Pós-doutorado
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Universidade de Agder
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