Alessandra S Souza

Biographic Data

ID9497328
NAMEAlessandra S Souza
GIVEN NAMESAlessandra S
FAMILY NAMESouza
SIGNATURESOUZA A S
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade do Porto
ORCID0000-0002-1057-8426
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Different time-courses for consolidating information in working memory and long-term memory

    Open AccessAna Rodríguez, Alessandra S Souza et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026

  • Refreshing boosts memory but does not protect it against interference

    Open AccessCaro Hautekiet, Evie Vergauwe et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026

  • Estratégias de Marketing para a empresa Aço Manaus: Diagnóstico Organizacional e Propostas de melhorias

    Open AccessAlessandra S Souza, Ingred Karoline Gomes Alves et al.ARTICLECuadernos de Educación y Desarrollo2025

    A gestão empresarial é fundamental para o sucesso das empresas, pois envolve as decisões estratégicas baseadas em informações confiáveis. O principal desafio da gestão empresarial é se adaptar ao mercado atual, visto que a empresa necessita se alinhar com os objetivos de crescimento e de lucratividade. Nisso, a gestão eficiente impacta diretamente na melhoria do desempenha organizacional da empresa, sendo o marketing uma área essencial para a com…

  • Why does the probe value effect emerge in working memory? Examining the biased attentional refreshing account

    Open AccessAmy Louise Atkinson, Klaus Oberauer et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2022

    People are able to prioritize more valuable information in working memory. The current study examined whether this value effect is due to the items of greater value being refreshed more than lower-value items during maintenance. To assess this possibility, we combined a probe value manipulation with a guided-refreshing procedure. Arrays of colored shapes were presented, and after a brief delay, participants reported the color of one randomly prob…

  • Categorical distinctiveness constrains the labeling benefit in visual working memory

    Open AccessAlessandra S Souza, Clara Overkott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2021

    Describing our visual experiences improves their retention in visual working memory, yielding a labeling benefit. Labels vary, however, in categorical distinctiveness: they can be applied broadly or narrowly to categorize stimuli. Does categorical distinctiveness constrain the labeling benefit? Here, we varied the number of terms used to label continuously varying colors (Experiment 1) and shapes (Experiment 2). Participants memorized four items,…

  • Validity of attention self-reports in younger and older adults

    Open AccessAndra Arnicane, Klaus Oberauer et al.ARTICLECognition2021

    Human attention is subject to fluctuations. Mind-wandering (MW) - attending to thoughts unrelated to the current task demands - is considered a ubiquitous experience. According to the Control Failure x Concerns view (McVay & Kane, 2010), MW is curbed by executive control, and task-irrelevant thoughts enter consciousness due to attentional control lapses. The generation of off-task thoughts is assumed to increase with higher number of personal con…

  • No evidence for bilingual cognitive advantages: A test of four hypotheses.

    Open AccessClaudia C Von Bastian, Alessandra S Souza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental…2016

    The question whether being bilingual yields cognitive benefits is highly controversial with prior studies providing inconsistent results. Failures to replicate the bilingual advantage have been attributed to methodological factors such as comparing dichotomous groups and measuring cognitive abilities separately with single tasks. Therefore, the authors evaluated the 4 most prominent hypotheses of bilingual advantages for inhibitory control, confl…

  • In search of the focus of attention in working memory: 13 Years of the Retro-Cue Effect

    Open AccessAlessandra S Souza, Klaus OberauerARTICLEAttention, Perception, &…2016

    The concept of attention has a prominent place in cognitive psychology. Attention can be directed not only to perceptual information, but also to information in working memory (WM). Evidence for an internal focus of attention has come from the retro-cue effect: Performance in tests of visual WM is improved when attention is guided to the test-relevant contents of WM ahead of testing them. The retro-cue paradigm has served as a test bed to empiric…

  • Extinção e estímulos independentes da resposta: Efeitos De Relações De Não-Contingência Sobre O Comportamento

    Open AccessAlessandra S Souza, Josele Abreu-Rodrigues et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2012

    A extinção e a apresentação de estímulos independentes da resposta são dois procedimentos tradicionais de suspensão da contingência entre resposta e consequência. O objetivo dessa revisão é discutir algumas similaridades e divergências nos efeitos comportamentais desses procedimentos. Dentre as similaridades encontram-se a redução na taxa de respostas, o estabelecimento de controle de estímulos, a renovação e o aumento na variabilidade comportame…

  • Autoconhecimento: Contribuições Da Pesquisa Básica

    Open AccessAlessandra S Souza, Josele Abreu-Rodrigues et al.ARTICLEPsicologia em Estudo2007

    Skinner propõe ser o autoconhecimento gerado por contingências sociais que colocam os relatos do indivíduo sob o controle do seu próprio comportamento. Esse argumento tem sido sustentado por uma série de investigações, tanto com sujeitos humanos quanto com sujeitos não humanos, as quais têm indicado que diferentes aspectos das relações entre o comportamento de um organismo e suas conseqüências podem exercer controle discriminativo sobre as descri…