Mariana V. C. Coutinho
Assiatnt Professor
Department of Natural and Health Sciences
Zayed University
Saudi Arabia
Biography
Mariana V. C. Coutinho joined Zayed University in August of 2015. Since then she has taught various courses in psychology including Cognitive Psychology, Health Psychology, Introduction to Counseling, Social Psychology and Organizational Psychology. Before joining Zayed University, she spent six months at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee serving as a postdoctoral researcher where she conducted studies in implicit memory. Her current research focuses on how epistemic beliefs and personal attributes influence metacomprehension accuracy.
Research Interest
Cognitive Psychology, Self-regulated Learning, Metacognition, Memory
Publications
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Mercado E, Church BA, Coutinho MVC, Dovgopoly A, Lopata C, et al. (2015) Heterogeneity in Patterns of Perceptual Generalization by Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
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Coutinho MVC, Redford JS, Church B, Zakrzewski AC, Couchman JJ, et al. (2015) The interplay between uncertainty monitoring and working memory: Can metacognition become automatic? Memory & Cognition 43: 990-1006.
