Catarina Alexandra Alves Botelho

Catarina Alexandra Alves Botelho is a PhD Student and Researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Education, affiliated with the Human Environment Interaction Lab (HEI-LAB). Her research focuses on decision-making processes, event-related potentials (ERP), attentional bias in anxiety, and neuroeconomic models of risk and uncertainty.

• Key Research Areas: Decision-Making Neuroscience, Threat-Related Attentional Bias, ERP Correlates of Anxiety, Systematic Review Methodology

Her recent work synthesizes neuroimaging findings on threat processing (2023) and deconstructs uncertainty in decision-making (2023), with applications in clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She collaborates on projects like HiTOP-SR (psychological assessment) and UncertainDM (neuroeconomic approaches to decision-making).