Tânia Fernandes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tânia Fernandes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tânia |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernandes |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9967-9882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The true colors of reading
Semantic knowledge is a defining property of human cognition, profoundly influenced by cultural experiences. In this study, we investigated whether literacy enhances lexical-semantic processing independently of schooling. Three groups of neurotypical adults - unschooled illiterates, unschooled ex-illiterates, and schooled literates - from the same residential and socioeconomic background in Portugal were tested on serial rapid automatized naming …
Where is mirror invariance? Masked priming effects by mirrored and rotated transformations of reversible and nonreversible letters
The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination
Functional illiteracy and developmental dyslexia
A considerable amount of the population in more economically developed countries are functionally illiterate (i.e., low literate). Despite some years of schooling and basic reading skills, these individuals cannot properly read and write and, as a consequence have problems to understand even short texts. An often-discussed approach (Greenberg et al. 1997) assumes weak phonological processing skills coupled with untreated developmental dyslexia as…
Overestimation of health urgency as a cause for emergency services inappropriate use
Increasing visits to emergency departments add strain to public healthcare systems. The misperception of symptoms' severity can partly explain inappropriate use of hospitals' emergency departments by non-urgent patients. This paper focuses on the misperception of symptoms' severity as a cause for the inappropriate use of emergency departments. It explores the role that informing potential patients of the correct severity level can play in correct…
Effects of schooling and literacy on linguistic abstraction
Schooling in a Western cultural environment has been shown to promote context‐free (analytic) at the expense of context‐dependent (holistic) processing. In the present study, we examined whether these differences in processing styles also induce a tendency to use more abstract (i.e., dispositional) language when describing human behaviors. Portuguese literate, illiterate, and ex‐illiterates were asked to freely describe behaviors presented visual…
Vacina antivariólica
Neste artigo abordamos aspectos da institucionalização da vacina antivariólica no Brasil, em cerca de um século. Apresentamos descobertas e discussões ocorridas em outros países, mostrando seus reflexos em nosso país desde a introdução da vacina humanizada até a chegada da vacina animal e a criação do Instituto Vacínico Municipal, por iniciativa particular do dr. Pedro Affonso Franco, o barão de Pedro Affonso. A introdução da vacina animal signif…
A peste em Exu
O documento faz parte da seção Depoimento
Overestimation of health urgency as a cause for emergency services inappropriate use
Increasing visits to emergency departments add strain to public healthcare systems. The misperception of symptoms' severity can partly explain inappropriate use of hospitals' emergency departments by non-urgent patients. This paper focuses on the misperception of symptoms' severity as a cause for the inappropriate use of emergency departments. It explores the role that informing potential patients of the correct severity level can play in correct…
Vacina antivariólica
Neste artigo abordamos aspectos da institucionalização da vacina antivariólica no Brasil, em cerca de um século. Apresentamos descobertas e discussões ocorridas em outros países, mostrando seus reflexos em nosso país desde a introdução da vacina humanizada até a chegada da vacina animal e a criação do Instituto Vacínico Municipal, por iniciativa particular do dr. Pedro Affonso Franco, o barão de Pedro Affonso. A introdução da vacina animal signif…
Effects of schooling and literacy on linguistic abstraction
Schooling in a Western cultural environment has been shown to promote context‐free (analytic) at the expense of context‐dependent (holistic) processing. In the present study, we examined whether these differences in processing styles also induce a tendency to use more abstract (i.e., dispositional) language when describing human behaviors. Portuguese literate, illiterate, and ex‐illiterates were asked to freely describe behaviors presented visual…
A peste em Exu
O documento faz parte da seção Depoimento
A peste em Exu
O documento faz parte da seção Depoimento
Vacina antivariólica
Neste artigo abordamos aspectos da institucionalização da vacina antivariólica no Brasil, em cerca de um século. Apresentamos descobertas e discussões ocorridas em outros países, mostrando seus reflexos em nosso país desde a introdução da vacina humanizada até a chegada da vacina animal e a criação do Instituto Vacínico Municipal, por iniciativa particular do dr. Pedro Affonso Franco, o barão de Pedro Affonso. A introdução da vacina animal signif…
Effects of schooling and literacy on linguistic abstraction
Schooling in a Western cultural environment has been shown to promote context‐free (analytic) at the expense of context‐dependent (holistic) processing. In the present study, we examined whether these differences in processing styles also induce a tendency to use more abstract (i.e., dispositional) language when describing human behaviors. Portuguese literate, illiterate, and ex‐illiterates were asked to freely describe behaviors presented visual…
Overestimation of health urgency as a cause for emergency services inappropriate use
Increasing visits to emergency departments add strain to public healthcare systems. The misperception of symptoms' severity can partly explain inappropriate use of hospitals' emergency departments by non-urgent patients. This paper focuses on the misperception of symptoms' severity as a cause for the inappropriate use of emergency departments. It explores the role that informing potential patients of the correct severity level can play in correct…
The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination
Functional illiteracy and developmental dyslexia
A considerable amount of the population in more economically developed countries are functionally illiterate (i.e., low literate). Despite some years of schooling and basic reading skills, these individuals cannot properly read and write and, as a consequence have problems to understand even short texts. An often-discussed approach (Greenberg et al. 1997) assumes weak phonological processing skills coupled with untreated developmental dyslexia as…
Where is mirror invariance? Masked priming effects by mirrored and rotated transformations of reversible and nonreversible letters
The true colors of reading
Semantic knowledge is a defining property of human cognition, profoundly influenced by cultural experiences. In this study, we investigated whether literacy enhances lexical-semantic processing independently of schooling. Three groups of neurotypical adults - unschooled illiterates, unschooled ex-illiterates, and schooled literates - from the same residential and socioeconomic background in Portugal were tested on serial rapid automatized naming …
Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Literacy (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works) · Science and Education Research (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Abstraction (1 work)