Nuno Alexandre De Sá Teixeira

Nuno Alexandre De Sá Teixeira serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro's School of Psychology, where he is an Integrated Member of the Cognition Team. Previously, he held a PostDoc position at the University of Coimbra's Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences from January 2013 to April 2016, while maintaining ongoing research collaboration with the Instituto de Psicologia Cognitiva at the same institution.

His primary research focuses on three interconnected domains: event perception (spatial and temporal determinants, intuitive physics, cognitive representations of motion); multisensory perception of gravitational information (internal models of gravity, visual-vestibular interactions, representational gravity); and perception-action coupling (smooth pursuit eye movements, visuo-motor coupling). These interests manifest in his extensive publication record examining representational momentum and gravity phenomena through behavioral and neuroimaging methodologies.

Analysis of his recent publications reveals consistent exploration of how gravity influences visual perception across multiple domains, from sports expertise to emotional face processing. His work demonstrates sophisticated integration of cognitive psychology principles with neuroscience techniques, particularly transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate neural substrates of spatial perception.

• 3rd Best Poster Award at VI National Congress of Psychiatry (2010)
• Fecher Day: Young Researcher Fellowship for the 23rd Annual Meeting of the ISP (2007)
• Scholarship for research on representational momentum and gravity (SFRH/BPD/84118/2012, 2013)
• Scholarship for research on causal perception modeling (2007)

As Principal Investigator, De Sá Teixeira has secured multiple research grants focused on representational phenomena and spatial cognition. His laboratory work integrates behavioral experimentation with neuroimaging techniques to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception of motion and gravity. Current research directions include extending representational momentum paradigms to social cognition domains and investigating individual differences in perceptual phenomena.