Graduated in Biological Sciences at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1988), obtained her master's in Neuroscience and Behavior at the Universidade de São Paulo (1995) and her PhD (Department of Psychobiology) and Post-doctorate (Department of Neurology) at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP. She is currently in a tenured position in the field of Human Cognition a the Department of Psychobiology, UNIFESP. Her original area of expertise was Psychopharmacology and adaptation of cognitive tests/scales for use in Brazil. Today, she has expanded her interests and conducts research mostly on healthy human cognition and correlated physiological markers, investigating mainly memory, executive functions, sleep and other behaviours. She has been a member of the Ethics Commitee at UNIFESP since 2011 and became a member of the Brazilian National Network of Science for Education in 2018. She is currently engaged in a ample investigation of the development of behavioral self-regulation during adolescence/puberty. email: spompeia@unifesp.com (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Executive functions, a set of cognitive processes involved in self-regulation of behavior, develop during adolescence, a period marked by other physiological changes that also affect cognition, such as sleep patterns. Poor executive functions at this time of life lead to vulnerabilities and impact people's future in terms of quality of life, health, academic performance, antisocial behavi…
The theme of this study is centered on the effects of pubertal development on a range of biopsychosocial factors and their consequences in modulating the ability of adolescents to self-regulate their behavior, which impacts mental and physical health and quality of life in adulthood. The proposal is innovative because: 1) unlike the literature, which considers only age in behavioral devel…
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The term Executive Functions (EFs) encompasses several cognitive skills associated with the concept of controlled attention that are responsible for regulating cognition, thoughts and behavior and are associated with mental and physical health outcomes. EFs comprise 3 distinguishable domains (Inhibition, Shifting and Updating), which characterize the diversity of EFs, that, however, share…
This project proposes the dissemination of activities, research and events carried out within the scope of the Thematic Project The Scientific Journalism scholarship in question was granted to this Thematic Project at the time of its approval by FAPESP. Considering that adolescence is marked by physical and brain changes that impact behavior and cognition and are not always understood by …
In early adolescence there are brain transformations associated with pubertal development that result in cognitive maturation, that is also affected by socioeconomic status (SES). Rarely, however, puberty is considered a factor in this maturation, usually assessed by effects of chronological age with laboratory testing in medium/high SES populations from developed countries. We intend to …
It's notorious the lack of instruments with construct validity evidences that we have in the country to evaluate sensible and crucial stages of mental and intellectual development of young Brazilians. Robust analyses via structural equation modeling (confirmatory factor analysis, invariance analysis, latent class analysis) are still narrowly spread, which impair the knowledge of psycholog…
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Executive Functions (EF) are cognitive skills that regulate cognition, thoughts and behavior that are associated with mental and physical health outcomes. According to the well-known unity and diversity model of EF, these abilities include at least three correlated but separable EF domains (Inhibition, Updating and Switching). This has been shown in adults and adolescents, mainly from dev…
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