Professor Antonina Pereira

Articles in international high impact peer-reviewed journals 

• Tyndall, I., Hartland, T., Banerjee, M., Giacomelli, V, Ball, I., Churchill, S., Pereira, A., & Lowry, R. (2022). Tailoring sexual health interventions for middle-aged and older adults, including vulnerable populations: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Sexual Health [Epub ahead of Print]. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2022.2089313
• Covington, L., Banerjee, M., Pereira, A ., & Price, M. (2022). Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Professionals Working in End-of-life Care: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of Palliative Care [Epub ahead of Print]. https://doi.org/10.1177/08258597221100330
• McLoughlin, S., Tyndall, I., & Pereira, A. (2022). Relational operant skills training increases standardised matrices in adolescents: A stratified active-controlled trial. Journal of Behavioural Education, 31, 298-325.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-020-09399-x
• McLoughlin, S., Tyndall, I., Pereira, A. & Mulhern, T. (2021). Non-verbal IQ Gains from Relational Operant Training Explain Variance in Educational Attainment: An Active-Controlled Feasibility Study. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 5, 35–50, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-020-00187-z
• McLoughlin, S., Tyndall, I., & Pereira, A . (2020). Convergence of multiple fields on a relational reasoning approach to cognition. Intelligence, 83, [Epub ahead of Print]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2020.101491
• Gladwin, T. E., Jewiss, M., Banic, M., & Pereira, A. (2020). Associations between performance-based and self-reported prospective memory, impulsivity and encoding support. Acta Psychologica, 206, 103066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103066
• Belmar, M., Gladwin, T. E., Reis, L., Pinho, M. S., Silva, D., Nunes, M. V., Raskin, S., de Mendonça, A.  & Pereira, A. (2020). An Exploration of Prospective Memory Components and Subtasks of the Memory for Intentions Test (MIST). Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
• Tyndall, I., Waldeck, D., Pancani, L., Whelan, R., Roche, B., & Pereira, A. (2019). Profiles of Psychological Flexibility: A Latent Class Analysis of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Model. Behavior modification. [Epub ahead of print]
• Pereira, A., Altgassen, M., Atchison, L., de Mendonca, A., & Ellis, J. (2018). Sustaining Prospective Memory Functioning in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Lifespan Approach to the Critical Role of Encoding. Neuropsychology, doi: 10.1037/neu0000441. [Epub ahead of print]
• de Mendonca, A., Maroco, Felgueiras, H., Verdelho, A., Camara, S., Grilo, C., J., Pereira, A., & Guerreiro, M. (2018). Memory complaints in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: more prospective or retrospective? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. [In print]
• McLoughlin, S., Tyndall, I., & Pereira, A. (2018). Piloting a brief relational operant training program: Analyses of response latencies and intelligence test performance. European Journal of Behaviour Analysis. doi: 10.1080/15021149.2018.1507087
• Raskin, S. A., Shum, D. H., Ellis, J., Pereira, A., & Mills, G. (2017). A comparison of laboratory, clinical, and self-report measures of prospective memory in healthy adults and individuals with brain injury. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, doi: 10.1080/13803395.2017.1371280. [Epub ahead of print]
• Pereira, A., Meirinhos, V., & Chmiel, N. (2017). Treading the path between intentions and actions: A Complex Hierarchical Model Of Prospective Memory. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, 13(7), P632-P633.
• Appleton, K., & Pereira, A. (2017). Behavioural changes in dementia and their impact on professional caregivers: A grounded theory approach. Dementia, doi: 1471301217714654. [Epub ahead of print]
• Windless, R., & Pereira, A. (2017). Semantic Processing as a Significant Factor in Non-Focal Prospective Memory Cues. Cognition, Brain, Behaviour, 21(1), 1-12.
• Pereira, A., de Mendonca, A., & Ellis, J. (2016). Prospective Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: in pursuit of an Early Diagnosis. International Journal of Psychology, 51 (S1), 865. ISSN 0020-7594
• Pereira, A., Meirinhos, V., & Chmiel, N. (2016). Untangling aging effects in Prospective Memory: A complex hierarchical model. International Journal of Psychology, 51 (S1), 178. ISSN 0020-7594
• Pereira, A., Mendonça, A., Silva, D., Guerreiro, M., Freeman, J. and Ellis, J. (2015). Enhancing Prospective Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Role of Enactment. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 37(8), 863-877. doi:10.1080/13803395.2015.1072499
• Duarte, S., Roche, A., Armstrong, J., Ortez, C., Gerontina, E., Pérez, A., O’Callaghan, M., Pereira, A., Sanmarti, F., Molero, M., Artuch, R., Pineda, M. & García-Cazorla, A. (2013). Abnormal expression of cation chloride cotransporters in Rett syndrome patients. PLoS ONE 8(7): e68851. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068851.
• Pereira, A., Ellis, J., & Freeman, J. (2012). Is prospective memory enhanced by semantic relatedness and cue-action enactment at encoding? Consciousness and Cognition, 21(3), 1257-1266. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.04.012.
• Pereira, A., Ellis, J., & Freeman, J. (2012). The effects of age, enactment and cue-action relatedness on memory for Intentions in the Virtual Week task. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 19(5), 549-565. doi:10.1080/13825585.2011.638977.
• Pereira, A., Freeman, & J., Ellis, J. (2011). Acting is the Key: New directions for the stimulation of prospective memory in mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 7, S543-S544. doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.1534.

Articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings 

• Pereira, A., Lauterbach, M., de Mendonça, A., Freeman, J., Ellis, J., & Guerreiro, M. (2010). Enacting the future: New challenges in enhancing prospective remembering. Sinapse, 10, 108. 
• Ellis, J., & Pereira, A. (2008). The realisation of delayed intentions: Age differences and potential mechanisms. ‘Invited Address, IUPsyS Invited Symposium, Invited Symposium, Symposium, Paper Session, Poster Session’, International Journal of Psychology, 43:3, 528 – 707.  
• Pereira, A., Ellis, J., & Freeman, J. (2008). The influence of enactment and target-action relatedness on prospective remembering, in Proceedings of the of the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Dublin, April 2-4.  

Key note / Oral communications by invitiation 

• Pereira, A., Altgassen, M., Atchison, L., de Mendonca, A., & Ellis, J. (2021). To Do, or Not to Do: Benefits of Physical Enactment of Intentend Actions in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Invited Paper presented at the Memory and Attention in Healthy and Pathological Ageing: Theories and Applications Conference, May 17-18, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Pereira, A., Mendonça, A., Freeman, J., & Ellis, J. (2016). Sustaining Autonomy in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: an Early Diagnosis for a Better Outlook. Invited Paper presented at the Prospective Memory in Normal and Abnormal Ageing Symposium of the 6th International Conference on Memory (ICOM2016), July 17-22, Budapest, Hungary.
• Pereira, A., Mendonça, A., Freeman, J., & Ellis, J. (2015). Let’s get Physical! Enacting Intended Actions in Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease. Paper presented at the Prospective Memory and Aging Symposium – 3^rd International Conference on Aging & Cognition, April 23-25, Dortmund, Germany.  
• Pereira, A. (2011). Did I do it? Event-based prospective memory across the lifespan. XII Meeting of the Portuguese Neuroscience Society, May 26-28 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.  

Conferences 

• Pereira, A., Mendonça, A., & Ellis, J. (2018). Can Prospective Memory Functioning be Supported in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment? A Lifespan Approach to the Critical Role of Encoding. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Prospective Memory (ICPM5), January 3-6, Melbourne, Australia.
• Pereira, A., Meirinhos, V., & Chmiel., N. (2018). Cognitive efficiency and everyday cognitive failure in prospective memory. Oral Data Blitz at the 5th International Conference on Prospective Memory (ICPM5), January 3-6, Melbourne, Australia.
• Pereira, A., Meirinhos, V., & Chmiel., N. (2017). Treading the Path Between Intentions and Actions: A Complex Hierarchical Model of Prospective Memory. Presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference®, July 16-19, London, England.
• Pereira, A., Mendonça, A., & Ellis, J. (2016). Prospective Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: in Pursuit of an Early Diagnosis. Paper presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), July 24-29, Yokohama, Japan.
• Pereira, A., Meirinhos, V., & Chmiel., N. (2016). Untangling Aging Effects in Prospective Memory: A Complex Hierarchical Model. Paper presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), July 24-29, Yokohama, Japan.
• Pereira, A., Meirinhos, V., & Chmiel, N. (2016). The Curious Case of Prospective Memory: A Hierarchical Measurement Model of Age Differences. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Memory (ICOM2016), July 17-22, Budapest, Hungary.
• Mcloughlin, S., Tyndall, I., & Pereira, A. (2016). Assessing the Efficacy of Fluency Training in Relating Relations for Increasing Performance on Tests of Analogical Responding and General Cognitive Ability. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Association of Behaviour Analysis Conference (EABA2016), September 14-17, Enna, Sicily.
• Pereira, A., Mendonça, A., Silva, D., Guerreiro, M., Lauterbach, M., Freeman, J., & Ellis, J. (2014). Just Do It! Enhancing Prospective Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Poster presented at the 4th International Conference on Prospective Memory, May 26-30, Naples, Italy.
• Pereira, A., Mendonça, Freeman, J., & Ellis, J. (2014). To Do or not to Do… Enhancing Prospective Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Paper presented at the 31st BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, September 3-5, Nottingham, UK.
• Costa, M., Reis, L., Pinho, M. S, & Pereira, A. (2013). In Pursuit on an Early Alzheimer‟s Disease Diagnosis: Unveiling the MIST of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Paper presented at the 28th PsyPAG Annual Conference, July 17-19, Lancaster, UK.
• Costa, M., Reis, L., Pinho, M. S, & Pereira, A. (2012). The Memory for Intentions Test (MIST). Paper presented at the 3rd Edition of the Scales and Tests in Dementia Meeting, held in the ambit of the 26th GEECD (Dementia and Cerebral Aging Society) Annual Conference, June 29-30, Tomar, Portugal.
• Costa, M., Reis, L., Pinho, M. S, & Pereira, A. (2012). Unveiling the MIST of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Poster presented at the 26th Dementia and Cerebral Aging Society Conference, June 29-30, Tomar, Portugal.
• Pinho, J., do Vale, R., Batalha, V., Costenla, A., Valadas, J., Pereira, A., Sebastiao, A., Lopes, L., de Mendonça, A., Diógenes, M. (2012). Compensatory Long-Term Potentiation In Aged Rats. Paper presented at the 42nd SPF (Portuguese society of Pharmacology) Annual Conference, Feb 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Pereira, A., Freeman, & J., Ellis, J. (2011). Acting is the Key: New directions for the stimulation of prospective memory in mild cognitive impairment. Poster presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 16-21, Paris, France.
• Pereira, A., Lauterbach, M., Guerreiro, M., Freeman, J., Ellis, J., & de Mendonça, A. (2011). New Challenges in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Prospective Memory. Paper presented at the 25th GEECD (Dementia and Cerebral Aging Society) Annual Conference, June 3-4, Tomar, Portugal.
• Pereira, A., Lauterbach, M., de Mendonça, A., Freeman, J., Ellis, J., & Guerreiro, M. (2010). Why does my phone ring at the most awkward moments and other (un)explainable mysteries: A new Prospective Memory paradigm. Paper presented at the 24th GEECD (Dementia and Cerebral Aging Society) Annual Conference, June 25-26, Tomar, Portugal.
• Pereira, A., Lauterbach, M., de Mendonça, A., Freeman, J., Ellis, J., & Guerreiro, M. (2010). Enacting the future: New challenges in enhancing Prospective Remembering. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Portuguese Society of Neurology, May 14-15, Luso, Portugal.
• Raskin, S., Jones, E., Ellis, J., Pereira, A., Mills, G., Kabtimer, E. & Zamroziewicz, M. (2010). Issues in the Measurement of Prospective Memory. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference on Prospective Memory, July 28-30, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Pereira, A., Ellis, J., & Freeman, J. (2008). The influence of enactment and target-action relatedness on prospective remembering. Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, April 2-4, Dublin, Ireland.
• Ellis, J., & Pereira, A. (2008). The realisation of delayed intentions: Age differences and potential mechanisms. Paper presented at the 29th International Congress of Psychology, July 20-22, Berlin, Germany.
• Pereira, A., Ellis, J., & Freeman, J. (2007). Enhanced prospective remembering through enactment. Paper presented at the PsyPAG Annual Conference, July 18-20, London, UK.
• Ellis, J., Pereira, A., & Freeman, J. (2007). The influence of enactment and target-action relatedness on prospective remembering. Paper presented at the 10th Congress of the Swiss Society of Psychology, September 13-14, Zürich, Switzerland.

Supervised to Completion

• 2019 – 2021

Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences – University of Chichester  

Supervision for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology provided to Samuel Baeza. Dissertation entitled “Emotional Labour, Organisational Trust, and Turnover in Social Work” – awarded with minor corrections.

• 2019 – 2021

Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences – University of Chichester  

Supervision for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology provided to Suzanna McGregor. Dissertation entitled “Living out Faith at the Food Bank? Church-based Food Bank Volunteer Work” – awarded with minor corrections.

•  2015 – 2019

Department of Psychology and Counselling – University of Chichester  

Supervision for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology provided to Shane McLoughlin. Dissertation entitled “Relational Framing Training for Educational Contexts” – awarded with minor corrections.

Currently Supervising for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

• Susan Hindman. Dissertation entitled “Exploring the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Based Cognitive Training in Schools”.
• Camille Cousley. Dissertation entitled “Measuring Prospective Memory to Support Discharge Planning for Patients Living with Dementia on an Acute Dementia Unit”.
• Ross Webster. Dissertation entitled “What Aspects of Acute ‘End Of Life’ Management in Individuals with Dementia Do Doctors & Allied Health Professionals Consider as ‘Non-Beneficial’? What Do they Believe Leads to Non-Beneficial Care?”.
• Zita Warren. Dissertation entitled “Parents’ Experiences and Perceptions of Empowerment and Collaborative Care to Support Parents in Neonatal Units”.
• Gillian Docherty. Dissertation entitled “The Wonderful World of Adult Ballet, or is it?”.
• Alison Woodward. Dissertation entitled “Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Higher Education”.
• Jasmine Afaily-Zadeh. Dissertation entitled “Nature Connectedness in Healthcare Setting: implications for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing”.
• Lorena Sue Covington. Dissertation entitled “A Mindfulness Intervention for End-of-Life Workers”.
• Lisa Armstrong. Dissertation entitled “An investigation focusing on the impact of Informal adult caring on individual carer’s citizenship rights in England”.