Sandra C. Soares

Sandra C. Soares main research interests are focused on understanding how different emotions, such as fear and disgust, impact on behaviour, psychophysiology and neural processing. She uses a multisensory (mostly visual and olfactory emotional inducing stimuli) and multi-method approach to foster a more broaden comprehension of the phenomena. She also studies how these processes interact with cognitive functions, such as attention and memory, with evolutionary theories as a ground and combines these experimental-cognitive approaches in both basic and applied settings (e.g., with clinical disorders, such as Psychotic disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Anxiety Disorders, and Phobias). Finally, her research endeavours an interdisciplinary approach, with strong collaborations with computer science experts, in order to promote more personalized and preventive systems into mental health care practices.

Main 5 publications

Rocha, M., Grave, J., Korb, S., Parma, V., Semin, G. R., & Soares, S.C. (2024). Emotional self-body odors do not influence the access to visual awareness by emotional faces. Chemical Senses, 49. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjad034
Magalhães, A. C., Silva, F., Lameirinha, I., Rodrigues, M., & Soares, S. C. (2024). Think positive! Resolving human motion ambiguity in the presence of disease threat. Cognition and Emotion, 38(1), 71–89. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2269831
Grave, J., Cordeiro, S., de Sá Teixeira, N., Korb, S., & Soares, S. C. (2024). Emotional anticipation for dynamic emotional faces is not modulated by schizotypal traits: A Representational Momentum study. Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 0(0). doi: 10.1177/17470218241253703
Pereira, L., Grave, J., Noll, J., Derntl, B., Soares, S. C., Brás, S., & Sebastião, R. (2023). Characterisation of Physiological Responses to Odours in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Study. Applied Sciences, 13. doi: 10.3390/app13031970
Barros, F., & Soares, S. C. (2020). Giving meaning to the social world in autism spectrum disorders: Olfaction as a missing piece of the puzzle? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 116, 239-250. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.008

Contacts

E-mail: sandra.soares@ua.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/2E1C-FF44-5CB1
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-7840
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Soares2