Sandra C Soares
Biographic Data
| ID | 7656480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra C Soares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra C |
| FAMILY NAME | Soares |
| SIGNATURE | SOARES S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aveiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0346-7840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Revisiting “The Malicious Serpent”
Twenty years ago, Öhman and Mineka's publication “The Malicious Serpent” emphasized the selective pressure ancestral reptiles would have on early mammals’ visual system, specifically the development of a set of subcortical structures that would provide snake-like images privileged access to the amygdala. This process would occur automatically and allows for quick defensive reactions. Based on criticisms directed to the snake detection research, w…
Think positive! Resolving human motion ambiguity in the presence of disease threat
Recently, approach-avoidance tendencies and visual perception biases have been increasingly studied using bistable point-light walkers (PLWs). Prior studies have found a facing-the-viewer bias when one is primed with general threat stimuli (e.g. angry faces), explained by the "error management theory", as failing to detect a threat as approaching is riskier than the opposite. Importantly, no study has explored how disease threat - linked to the b…
The impact of Covid ‐19 concerns on perceiving others' faces
Unlike most infectious diseases, COVID‐19 is characterised by an absence of facial disease‐signalling cues. Yet, it is still unclear whether it has influenced face perception. Understanding this may help clarify if and how our motivation toward social interactions is conditional on situational pathogen threats. The present study investigated if priming disease concerns about COVID‐19 would change people's perception of neutral faces on perceived …
Active learning spaces design and assessment
As spaces, physical or virtual, are change agents and can have an impact on learning, the power of built pedagogy is being acknowledged in Higher Education. Emphasis is being placed on the design of Active Learning Spaces (ALS) and its impact on pedagogy, by fostering active learning. However, the field is fragmented, due to a profusion of terms for ALS, lacking systematization. This paper presents a systematic literature review on ALS with a foc…
The angry versus happy recognition advantage
Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Questionnaire
Overall, the 10-items European-Portuguese PVD appears to be a reliable and valid measure of one's perceived vulnerability to disease, with potential relevance for application in both research and clinical practice pertaining to disease-avoidance processes
“Threat-unrelated” properties
In our previous work (Gomes, Soares, Silva, & Silva, 2018), we evidenced that snakes (vs. birds), an archetypal threat-related stimulus, have an advantage in accessing visual awareness during continuous flash suppression. This advantage was observed when the images were filtered in low spatial frequency (LSF) but not in high spatial frequency and interpreted as supporting the role of a subcortical pathway (superior colliculus-pulvinar) to the amy…
Unconscious influence over executive control
Adaptive memory
Beware the serpent
Mind the snake
The privileged processing of threat stimuli, even in the absence of visual awareness, has been associated with a subcortical superior colliculus (SC)-pulvinar pathway to the amygdala, bypassing the visual cortex. However, this has been heavily disputed by studies showing that cortical activity cannot be ruled out in fear processing. A recent study using continuous flash suppression (CFS) showed that rapid detection of fear faces relies on high sp…
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Adaptive memory
Beware the serpent
Mind the snake
The privileged processing of threat stimuli, even in the absence of visual awareness, has been associated with a subcortical superior colliculus (SC)-pulvinar pathway to the amygdala, bypassing the visual cortex. However, this has been heavily disputed by studies showing that cortical activity cannot be ruled out in fear processing. A recent study using continuous flash suppression (CFS) showed that rapid detection of fear faces relies on high sp…
Unconscious influence over executive control
“Threat-unrelated” properties
In our previous work (Gomes, Soares, Silva, & Silva, 2018), we evidenced that snakes (vs. birds), an archetypal threat-related stimulus, have an advantage in accessing visual awareness during continuous flash suppression. This advantage was observed when the images were filtered in low spatial frequency (LSF) but not in high spatial frequency and interpreted as supporting the role of a subcortical pathway (superior colliculus-pulvinar) to the amy…
Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Questionnaire
Overall, the 10-items European-Portuguese PVD appears to be a reliable and valid measure of one's perceived vulnerability to disease, with potential relevance for application in both research and clinical practice pertaining to disease-avoidance processes
Active learning spaces design and assessment
As spaces, physical or virtual, are change agents and can have an impact on learning, the power of built pedagogy is being acknowledged in Higher Education. Emphasis is being placed on the design of Active Learning Spaces (ALS) and its impact on pedagogy, by fostering active learning. However, the field is fragmented, due to a profusion of terms for ALS, lacking systematization. This paper presents a systematic literature review on ALS with a foc…
The angry versus happy recognition advantage
Think positive! Resolving human motion ambiguity in the presence of disease threat
Recently, approach-avoidance tendencies and visual perception biases have been increasingly studied using bistable point-light walkers (PLWs). Prior studies have found a facing-the-viewer bias when one is primed with general threat stimuli (e.g. angry faces), explained by the "error management theory", as failing to detect a threat as approaching is riskier than the opposite. Importantly, no study has explored how disease threat - linked to the b…
The impact of Covid ‐19 concerns on perceiving others' faces
Unlike most infectious diseases, COVID‐19 is characterised by an absence of facial disease‐signalling cues. Yet, it is still unclear whether it has influenced face perception. Understanding this may help clarify if and how our motivation toward social interactions is conditional on situational pathogen threats. The present study investigated if priming disease concerns about COVID‐19 would change people's perception of neutral faces on perceived …
Revisiting “The Malicious Serpent”
Twenty years ago, Öhman and Mineka's publication “The Malicious Serpent” emphasized the selective pressure ancestral reptiles would have on early mammals’ visual system, specifically the development of a set of subcortical structures that would provide snake-like images privileged access to the amygdala. This process would occur automatically and allows for quick defensive reactions. Based on criticisms directed to the snake detection research, w…
Psychology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Neuroscience (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (4 works) · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works) · Amygdala (3 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (3 works)