Joana Silva, Doctoral student (not working at IDT anymore)


Received her Master's degree in Bioengineering-Biomedical Engineering from the University of Porto in 2018. Former Research Engineer in the Biomedical Engineering group and currently a PhD Student in the Neuroengineering group

Her research focuses on extracting cognitive information from brain activity and pupillometry. She uses EEG and pupillometry measurements in real-time Neurofeedback to address BCI illiteracy and enhance cognitive functions.

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Latest publications:

Pupil Diameter Does Not Covary with Learning During Single-Session Neurofeedback Training (Aug 2024)
Joana Silva, Elmeri Syrjänen, Elaine Åstrand
IEEE EMBS, the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2024 (EMBS)

Individual temporal and spatial dynamics of learning to control central Beta activity in neurofeedback training (Aug 2023)
Elmeri Syrjänen, Joana Silva, Elaine Åstrand
2023 11th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER) (NER)