Post-doc (SNF project), Cognitive Psychology Unit

		Contact
		Dr Alessandra Souza University of Zurich Departement of Psychology Cognitive Psychology Unit Binzmühlestrasse 14/22 CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland
		phone: fax: email: office: consultation-hour:	+41 44 63 57472 +41 44 63 57479 a.souza@psychologie.uzh.ch BIN 4.B.08 on appointment

Research topics / main interests

• processing of verbal and procedural information in working memory
• attention & working memory
• Learning
• operant conditioning
• behavioral variability

Selected publications

PDFs of the articles can be found on the publications page

• Oberauer, K., Souza, A. S., Druey, M. D., & Gade, M. (2013). Analogous mechanisms of selection and updating in declarative and procedural working memory: Experiments and a computational model. Cognitive Psychology, 66, 157-211. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.11.001
• Souza, A. S., Oberauer, K., Gade, M., & Druey, M. D. (2012). Processing of representations in declarative and procedural working memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 1006–1033. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.640403
• Souza, A. S., Pontes, T. N., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2012). Varied but not necessarily random: Human performance under variability contingencies is affected by instructions. Learning & Behavior, 40, 367-379. doi: 10.3758/s13420-011-0058-y
• Pontes, T.N.R., Abreu-Rodrigues, J., & Souza, A. S. (2012). Choice between contingencies of variation: Effects of the requirement of variation upon preference. Behavioral Processes, 91, 214-222. doi: 0.1016/j.beproc.2012.08.004
• Souza, A. S., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2012). Extinção e estímulos independentes da resposta: Efeitos de relações de não-continência sobre o comportamento. [Extinction and response-independent stimuli: Effects of non-contingent relations on behavior]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 25, 400-409.
• Souza, A. S., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2010). Discriminative proprieties of vary and repeat contingencies. Behavioural Processes, 85, 116-125. doi:10.3758/LB.38.4.426
• Souza, A. S., Abreu-Rodrigues, J., & Baumann, A. A. (2010). History effects upon induced and operant variability. Learning & Behavior, 38, 426-437. doi:10.3758/LB.38.4.426
• Baumann, A. A., Abreu-Rodrigues, J., & Souza, A. S. (2009). Rules and self-rules: Effects of variation upon behavioral sensitivity to change. The Psychological Record, 59, 641–670.
• Souza, A. S., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2007). Autoconhecimento: Algumas contribuições da pesquisa básica. [Self-knowledge: Some contributions from Basic Research]. Psicologia em Estudo, 12, 121-130.
• Abreu-Rodrigues, J., Souza, A. S., & Moreira, J. M. (2007). Repetir ou Variar? Efeitos do critério de variação sobre a escolha. [Repeat or Vary? Effects from variation criterion upon choice]. Ciência: Comportamento e Cognição, 1, 71-84.
• Oliveira, M. C., Pinto, R. G., & Souza, A. S. (2003). Perspectivas de futuro entre adolescentes: Universidade, trabalho e relacionamentos afetivos na transição para a vida adulta. [Future perspectives among teenagers: University, work, and relationships in the transition to adulthood]. Temas em Psicologia da SBP, 11, 16-27.