César F.
Principal InvestigatorCésar Lima is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Iscte University Institute of Lisbon. His research focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of music, vocal communication, and emotion.
He has published his work in journals including Emotion, Brain, Current Biology, Trends in Neurosciences, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. César Lima is on the editorial board of Scientific Reports (category Neuroscience) and Royal Society Open Science (category Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience). He has been invited to review papers for journals such as Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist, and Nature Human Behavior, and grant applications for the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society, Czech Science Foundation, and Swiss National Science Foundation.
Before joining Iscte, César Lima completed a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Porto (2011), was a Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience - University College London (2012-2016), and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Porto (2016-2017). His work as principal investigator has been funded by the British Academy and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
At Iscte, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on cognitive psychology and on social, cognitive and affective neuroscience.
César F.
Lima
Principal Investigator
César Lima is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon since 2017. His research focuses on the psychology and neurobiology of vocal communication, music, and emotion.
He has published his work in journals including Emotion, Cerebral Cortex, Brain, Current Biology, Trends in Neurosciences, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. César Lima is on the editorial board of Scientific Reports (category Neuroscience) and Royal Society Open Science (category Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience). He has been invited to review papers for journals such as Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist, NeuroImage, or Emotion, and grant applications for the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society, Czech Science Foundation, and Swiss National Science Foundation.
Before joining Iscte, César Lima completed a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Porto (2008-2011), was a Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience - University College London (2012-2016), and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Porto (2016-2017). His work as principal investigator has been funded by the British Academy and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
At Iscte, he teaches Psychophysiology and Genetics, Neuropsychology, Reasoning and Language, Biological Basis of Emotions, and Advances in Affective Neurosciences.
Marta
Martins
Postdoc Researcher
Marta Martins has a background in biology, received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Porto, and she is interested in the psychology and neurobiology of music, reading, and auditory-motor processes. She addresses these topics by combining behavioral and neuroimaging methods.
Leonor
Neves
PhD Student
Leonor Neves completed her M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Porto, and her research concerns how music training affects non-musical abilities. She is using behavioral and neuroimaging methods to address this question.
Ana Isabel
Correia
PhD Student
Ana Isabel Correia completed her M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Porto, and she is interested in understanding how music training and musical abilities relate to other variables, with a particular emphasis on vocal emotion recognition.
Ricardo
Vilaverde
PhD Student
Ricardo Vilaverde has a background in sociology, received his M.Sc. in Emotion Sciences from Iscte, and his project examines the role of sensorimotor mechanisms in vocal emotional processing. He is combining behavioral with peripheral physiological and EEG measures to address this question.
Aissa
Baldé
PhD Student
Aíssa Baldé has a background in psychology, received her M.Sc. in Emotion Sciences, and her project examines associations between psychoacoustic processing, musical expertise, and speech perception.
Rafael
Ribeiro
PhD Student
Rafael Ribeiro has a background in psychology and is a professional musician. His project examines how individual differences in emotional granularity shape emotional responses to music.
Matilde R.
de Andrade
Research Assistant
Matilde received her M.Sc. in Neuroscience from King’s College London, and she is broadly interested in face, voice, and music perception, in typical and atypical conditions (e.g., neurodevelopmental disorders).
Jagoda
Szwalbe
Research Trainee
Jagoda is a master's student in psychology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (Warsaw, Poland), and she is interested in neuropsychology and psychology of music. She is involved in a project that examines associations between musical expertise and language skills.
E. Glenn
Schellenberg
Affiliated Researcher
Glenn Schellenberg is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and an FCT fellow at Iscte (Principal Researcher). His primary research area focuses on cognitive developmental issues in the auditory domain, with a particular emphasis on music perception and cognition.