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Olívia Morgan Lapenta

Campus de Gualtar - Edificio 14 - 1.54
olivialapenta@psi.uminho.pt |
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Resume

Olivia Morgan Lapenta is a Researcher at Universidade do Minho. She works with Human Cognitive Neuroscience research. She worked in several topics including: action observation and imagery; McGurk effect; food craving; rubber-hand illusion; social pain; attention and mind wandering processes; and sensorimotor entrainment. At the moment, is focused in two lines of research: i. food perception and interventions towards population with eating disorders or altered taste perception and ii. audiovisual integration and its implications in movement perception and execution. Olivia has expertise in tDCS and EEG and the combination of the two techniques and also has experience with eye-tracking, TMS and EMG techniques applied to cognitive neuroscience investigations. Also has 4 years of teaching experience at graduate level

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Disturbios do Desenvolvimento
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Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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Disturbios do Desenvolvimento
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Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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Mestrado
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Biologia
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Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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Licenciatura
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Doutorado-sanduiche
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Italian Institute of Technology
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Portuguese
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Italian
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Spanish; Castilian
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Western Sydney University
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Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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Publications
Scientific Supervision
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Doutoramento
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Neurofeedback effects on EEG patterns and mindfulness meditation quality
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University of Minho
Student
Juan Pablo Aristizabal
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Mestrado
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Forgetting Food: Memory Suppression Mechanism in Individuals with Food Addiction
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University of Minho
Student
Lucas Saldanha Rodrigues
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Mestrado
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The Impact of COVID-19 hygienic measures on food choice and eating behaviour in Portuguese university sample
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University of Minho
Student
Jarina Gabrielle Aquino Oliveira
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Mestrado
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Action recognition of point-light walkers presented with semantically congruent/incongruent auditory stimuli
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University of Minho
Student
Catarina Senra
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Mestrado
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Adição alimentar, hábitos alimentares e escolhas alimentares em estudantes universitários
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University of Minho
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Filipa Andreia Gonçalves Martins