Rita Almeida Associate Professor

Contact

Name and title: Rita AlmeidaAssociate Professor

Mail: rita.almeida@su.se

Phone: +468164935

Workplace: Department of Linguistics Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room M:241Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 2-3

Postal address Institutionen för lingvistik106 91 Stockholm

Research group

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About me

I am a Senior Lecturer in neuroscience with a focus on brain imaging analysis at the Department of Linguistics and an associate professor (docent) at the Department of Psychology of Stockholm University.

I have a background in Engineering physics and a PhD on analysis and modeling of neuroimaging data. At present my main research focus is on modeling behavioral data and its neuronal correlates.

I am also the Director of the Stockholm University Brain Imaging Center (SUBIC).

Teaching

At present I teach on the following courses at SU:

Advanced level:

Statistics and machine learning (LIS040 - 7.5 ECTS)
Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (LIMV09 - 7.5 ECTS)
Project course in AI and Language (LIS070 - 15 ECTS)
Master's thesis course in AI and Language (LIS080 - 30 ECTS)

Phd:

Imaging in neuroscience: with a focus on functional magnetic resonance (LI1001SF - 7.5 ECTS, LI1002SF - 3 ECTS)

I am also main supervisor of 1 PhD student.

Publications

See my ORCID ID:0000-0002-9559-9903 or my google scholar profile

Some relevant publications:

J. Liljefors, R. Almeida, G. Rane, J.N. Lundström, P. Herman, M. Lundqvist (2024) Distinct functions for beta and alpha bursts in gating of human working memory. Nature Communications 15: 8950.

A. Louzolo, R. Almeida, M. Guitart-Masip, M. Björnsdotter, A. Lebedev, M. Ingvar, A. Olsson and P. Petrovic (2022) Enhanced instructed fear learning in delusion-proneness. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 786778.

Almeida, R., Barbosa, J. and Compte, A. (2015) ‘Neural circuit basis of visuo-spatial working
memory precision: a computational and behavioral study’, Journal of Neurophysiology, 114, 1806-1818

H. Ullman, R. Almeida and T. Klingberg (2014). Structural maturation and brain activity predict future working memory capacity during childhood development, Journal of Neuroscience 34:1592-1598.

Roggeman, C., Klingberg, T., Feenstra, H., Compte, A. and Almeida, R. (2013) Trade-off between
capacity and precision in visuospatial working memory, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26,
211-222.