EDUCATION
2005-
PhD Program in Cognition Brain and Behavior - Psychology
Department, UC
Berkeley
2002-2005 Master of Science (Kinesiology), Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1998-2001 Bacharel em Esporte, Universidade de
São Paulo, Brasil
AWARDS
2007-2009 Doctoral Research Award - Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR)
2006-2009 Postgraduate Fellowship - Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council
(NSERC) of Canada
2006
Graduate
Students Present Award - Cognitive
Neuroscience Society (CNS)
2005
Franklin
Henry Young Scientist Award - SCAPPS
2005
Ebco/Epich Graduate
Scholarship in Expert Systems
2003/2004 Gordon
Diewert Memorial Graduate Scholarship
2003/2004 Graduate Fellowship -
Simon Fraser University
2001
Vide Video
Experimental Video Festival Winner
PUBLICATIONS
Oliveira, F.T.P., Aula, A., and Russell, D. M. (2009) Discriminating the relevance of web search results with measures of pupil size. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 2209-2212. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1519038 (pdf)
Oliveira, F.T.P. (forthcoming)
A pratica que leva à perfeição:
Estratégias
cognitivas para a aprendizagem e o desempenho expoente no esporte. [The
practice that makes perfect: Cognitive strategies for expert
learning and performance in sports]. Book Chapter in Portuguese
Oliveira, F.T.P., Ivry, R.B. (2008)
The representation of action: Insights from bimanual
coordination, Current
Directions in Psychological Science, 17(3), 130-135 (pdf)
Oliveira, F.T.P.,
McDonald, J.J. & Goodman, D. (2007)
Performance monitoring in anterior cingulate is not all error related:
Expectancy deviation and the representation of action-outcome
associations, Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(12), 1994-2004 (pdf)
Oliveira, F.T.P.
(2005) Short of the goal. Sports
Coach, 28, 30-31 (pdf)
reprinted at Scholastic
Coach and
Athletic Director (2006),
75(9),
58-59
Oliveira, F.T.P.,
Elliott, D. & Goodman, D. (2005) Energy-minimization bias:
compensating for intrinsic influence of energy-minimization mechanisms. Motor Control,
9,
101-114. (pdf)
Oliveira, F.T.P. & Goodman, D. (2004) Conscious and effortful
or effortless and automatic: a practice performance paradox. Perceptual
and Motor Skills, 99, 315-324. (pdf)
RECENT POSTERS
Oliveira, F.T.P., Johnson, R.C. & Ivry, R.B. (2007) Modulation of medial prefrontal activity by task difficulty. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, November, 2007. (pdf)
Oliveira, F.T.P., Duque, J., Grafton, S.T., & Ivry, R.B. (2007) When reaching for an object, which hand do you use? TMS to parietal cortex influences hand choice. Progress in Motor Control VI. Santos, Brazil, August, 2007. (pdf)