William Edgar Machado Comfort

Holds a BA in Psychology from Bangor University (2007), an MSc in Neuropsychology from the University of Bristol (2012) including a clinical internship at the Head Injury Therapy Unit (HITU) at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, and a PhD in Neuroscience and Cognition from the Universidade Federal do ABC (2015). Previously Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Osasco (2016-2017). Completed a post-doctoral fellowship financed by FAPESP in the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2017-2020) and is currently Visiting Professor of Neuroscience and Applied Psychology at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Has experience in the area of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, with a main focus on the following areas: face perception, social cognition in schizophrenia, symbolic thought and Theory of Mind, implicit measures of emotion; using the following techniques: psychophysics, computational modelling, eye-tracking, facial electromyography, electroencephalography. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)