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Dr Nastassja LOPES FISCHER

Research Fellow

Dr Nastassja Lopes Fischer joined CLIC School Workgroup on 19th July 2021 as a Research Fellow for Cognitive Flexibility in Adolescent. Nastassja Lopes Fischer is interested in applying the neuroscientific and cognitive psychology principles to improve students’ learning and self-concept. She has an extensive background using neuroimaging methods to tackle people’s behaviours related to social media decisions and to improve pre-schoolers’ social skills. In addition to her research experience, she also has teaching experience and has worked as a Human Physiology lecturer in a Medical School before coming to Singapore. She earned a PhD and MSc degrees in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a BA in Biomedical Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Singapore - NTU

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CLIC

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Yu, Junhong, and Nastassja Lopes Fischer. 2022. “Age‐specificity and Generalization of Behavior‐associated Structural and Functional Networks and Their Relevance to Behavioral Domains.” Human Brain Mapping 43 (8): 2405–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25759.

Fischer NL, Peres R and Fiorani M (2018) Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Theta Oscillations Associated With Information Sharing Intention. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 12:166. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00166

Souza, G.G.L., Mendonça-de-Souza, A.C.F., Duarte, A.F.A. et al. Blunted cardiac reactivity to psychological stress associated with higher trait anxiety: a study in peacekeepers. BMC Neurosci 16, 81 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0216-9

Gabriela Guerra Leal Souza, Ludmila Naves Magalhães, Thiago Amorim Ribeiro Da Cruz, Ana Carolina Ferraz Mendonça-De-Souza, Antônio Fernando A. Duarte, Nastassja L. Fischer, Wanderson F. Souza, Evandro Da Silva F. Coutinho, Jaime Vila, Sonia Gleiser, Ivan Figueira & Eliane Volchan (2013) Resting vagal control and resilience as predictors of cardiovascular allostasis in peacekeepers, Stress, 16:4, 377-383, DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2013.767326

A. C. F. Mendonça-de-Souza, G. G. L. Souza, A. Vieira, N. L. Fischer, W. F. Souza, V. M. Rumjanek, I. Figueira, M. V. Mendlowicz & E. Volchan (2007) Negative affect as a predisposing factor for cortisol release after an acute stress—the impact of unpleasant priming, Stress, 10:4, 362-367, DOI: 10.1080/10253890701379999

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