Fernando Ferreira-Santos

PhD in Psychology (Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) - University of Porto/UCL

I work in the fields of Social and Affective Neuroscience. I am interested in the perception of emotion across development and on the influence of emotion on social cognition (moral judgment and social decision-making). I am currently working on models of Affective Predictive Coding.

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto
Researcher at the Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology (U.Porto)
Associate Editor for Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica | Psychology: Research and Review
Secretary of the board of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) (2018-2020; board member 2016-2020)

My contact details can be found in my full CV (at the CiênciaVitae platform) or my University webpage.

I am currently the PI of the project "The role of affective dimensions in the perception of facial expressions of emotion: Neuropsychophysiological, developmental, and neuroimaging examination of an affective predictive coding framework" (funded by the BIAL Foundation).