Dr. Alessandra Souza

Loaiza, V., & Souza, A. (2019). An Age-Related Deficit in Preserving the Benefits of Attention in Working Memory. (PDF, 485 KB) Psychology & Aging, 34, 282-293.
Data available at the OSF:https://osf.io/h3sdb/

Rey-Mermet, A.. Gade, M., Souza, A., von Bastian, C., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Is executive control related to working memory capacity and fluid intelligence? (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000593
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/4t4h5/

Thalmann, M., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Revisiting the Attentional Demands of Rehearsal in Working-Memory Tasks. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Memory & Language, 105, 1-18.
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/69p8j/

Wulf, Jones, Mata, & the Aging Lexicon Consortium (2019). New perspectives on the Aging Lexicon. (PDF, 911 KB) Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Advance Online Publication.
Pre-print available at the OSF: https://psyarxiv.com/envsu/

Camos, V., Johnson, M., Loaiza, V., Portrat, S., Souza, A., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). What is attentional refreshing in working memory? (PDF, 1 MB) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1424, 19–32.

Loaiza, V. M., & Souza, A. S. (2018). Is refreshing in working memory impaired in older age? Evidence from the retro-cue paradigm. (PDF, 964 KB) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1424, 175–189.
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/bqv7t/

Oschwald, J., Schättin, A., von Bastian, C. C., & Souza, A. S. (2018). Bidialectalism and Bilingualism: Exploring the Role of Language Similarity as a Link Between Linguistic Ability and Executive Control. (PDF, 6 MB) Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1997.
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/uf2hs/

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2018). Does articulatory rehearsal help immediate serial recall? (PDF, 1 MB) Cognitive Psychology, 107, 1–21.
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/zfdr5/

Souza, A. S., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). Unravelling the intersections between consolidation, refreshing, and removal. (PDF, 64 KB) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1424, 5–7.

Souza, A. S., Thalmann, M., & Oberauer, K. (2018). The precision of spatial selection into the focus of attention in working memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi:10.3758/s13423-018-1471-4
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/vz89r/

Souza, A. S., Vergauwe, E., & Oberauer, K. (2018). Where to attend next: guiding refreshing of visual, spatial, and verbal representations in working memory. (PDF, 594 KB) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1424, 76–90.
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/skw8x/

Thalmann, M., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2018). How does chunking help working memory? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. doi:10.1037/xlm0000578
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/jjfbh/

Souza A.S. & Oberauer K. (2017). Time to process information in working memory improves episodic memory. (PDF, 570 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 96, 155-167. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.07.002
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/ctgr3/

Souza, A. S., & Skóra, Z. (2017). The interplay of language and visual perception in working memory. Cognition, 166, 277-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.038
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/tf93q/
PDF also available here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1V9wY2Hx2XnLg

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (in press). The contributions of visual and central attention to visual working memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.  Doi: 10.3758/s13414-017-1357-y
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/arve5/

Shepherdson, P., Oberauer, K., & Souza, A. S. (2017). Working memory load and the retro-cue effect: A diffusion model account. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance. doi:10.1037/xhp0000448

*Gade M., *Souza A.S., Druey M.D., & Oberauer K. (2017). Analogous selection processes in declarative and procedural working memory: N-2 list-repetition and task-repetition costs. (PDF, 1004 KB) Mem Cogn, 45, 26-39. doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0645-4

* Shared first authorship.

Bermudez, T., & Souza, A. S. (2016).Can emotional content reduce the age gap in visual working memory? Evidence from two tasks. Cognition & Emotion. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1240066
Data available at the OSF: https://osf.io/4j83a/

Souza, A.S. (in press). No age deficits in the ability to use attention to improve visual working memory. Psychology & Aging.

Souza A.S., & Oberauer K. (2016). In search of the focus of attention in working memory: 13 years of the retro-cue effect. (PDF, 1 MB) Atten Percept Psychophys, 78, 1839–1860. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1108-5

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (in press). Getting more from visual working memory: Retro-cues enhance retrieval and protect from test interference. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

von Bastian, C. C., Souza, A. S., & Gade, M. (2016). No evidence for bilingual cognitive advantages: A test of four hypotheses. (PDF, 454 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 246-258. doi: 10.1037/xge0000120

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2015). Refreshing memory traces: Thinking of an item improves retrieval from visual working memory. (PDF, 408 KB) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1339, 20-31. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12603

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2015). Time-based forgetting in working memory reflects temporal distinctiveness, not decay. (PDF, 634 KB) Psychological Bulletin & Review, 22, 156-162

Gade, M., Druey, M. D., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Interference between declarative and procedural representations in working memory. (PDF, 924 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 174-194.

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., Lin, S-H., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Focused attention improves working memory: Implications for flexible-resource and discrete-capacity models. (PDF, 1 MB) Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 2080-2102. doi:10.3758/s13414-014-0687-2

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Unloading and reloading working memory: Attending to one item frees capacity. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1237-1256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036331

Rerko, L., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Retro-cue benefits in working memory without sustained focal attention. (PDF, 754 KB) Memory & Cognition. doi:10.3758/s13421-013-0392-8

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. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognitive Psychology, 66, 157-211. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.11.001

Pontes, T.N.R., Abreu-Rodrigues, J., & Souza, A. S. (2012). Choice between contingencies of variation: Effects of the requirement of variation upon preference. (PDF, 696 KB) Behavioral Processes, 91, 214-222.

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]. (PDF, 366 KB) Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 25, 400-409.

Souza, A. S., Oberauer, K., Gade, M., & Druey, M. D. (2012). Processing of representations in declarative and procedural working memory. (PDF, 1 MB) The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 1006–1033. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.64040

Souza, A. S., Pontes, T. N., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2012). Varied but not necessarily random: Human performance under variability contingencies is affected by instructions. (PDF, 985 KB) Learning & Behavior. doi: 10.3758/s13420-011-0058-y

Souza, A. S., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2010). Discriminative proprieties of vary and repeat contingencies. (PDF, 357 KB) Behavioural Processes, 85, 116-125

Souza, A. S., Abreu-Rodrigues, J., & Baumann, A. A. (2010). History effects upon induced and operant variability. (PDF, 280 KB) Learning & Behavior, 38, 426-437

Baumann, A. A., Abreu-Rodrigues, J., & Souza, A. S. (2009). Rules and self-rules: Effects of variation upon behavioral sensitivity to change. (PDF, 335 KB) 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] (PDF, 87 KB) 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.

Souza, A. S., & Abreu-Rodrigues, J. (2007). Requiem para um sonho: Uma visão comportamental da impulsividade e adicção (p.115-136). In: A. K. C. R. de-Faria & M. Ribeiro (Eds.), Skinner vai ao Cinema. Santo André, SP: ESETec. [Requiem for a Dream: A behavioural view of impulsivity and addiction].

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] (PDF, 113 KB) Temas em Psicologia da SBP, 11, 16-27.