Leonardo Lana de Carvalho is a Psychologist and Associate Professor at the Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri, at the Department of Computing / FACET, and a permanent professor in the graduate program in Human Sciences at this same institution.
He holds a postdoctoral internship at University of Paris IV - Sorbonne / CNRS and at the UFU (Institute of Psychology) / FAPEMIG. He holds a PhD in Psychology (Cognitive) from the Université Lumière Lyon II with co-supervision in Computing from Claude Bernard Lyon I University / LIRIS, France.
He was president of the Brazilian Society of Cognitive Science (2022-2024).
His research interests include: Computational Theory of Mind; Formal Languages and Computability; Enactive Cognitive Science; Self-organization; Complex Systems; Computational Modeling of Cognitive Processes; Artificial and Computational Intelligence.
CLEA started as a single research group that remains active.
It was founded in May of 2020 with the purpose of uniting researchers from all over the country around related themes and interests.
Despite contemplating a wide spectrum of theoretical positions and inclinations, the group assumes that cognitive, linguistic and affective processes cannot be understood outside the agent’s situated activities in their (physical and social) environment.
The main proposals and activities of the group are 1) to encourage the study, debate and academic production around these themes; and 2) to establish a support and debate group on works in progress and new proposals....
Cognitive Psychology
The group is dedicated to studying the architecture and functioning of the human mind, investigating the mental processes underlying behavior, from the reception of sensory stimuli to the execution of complex actions. From an interdisciplinary perspective that engages with neuroscience and philosophy, we explore how individuals acquire, transform, store, retrieve, and use information. We investigate the mechanisms of sensation and perception, analyzing how the brain interprets the world through bottom-up and top-down processes, as well as the laws of perceptual organization (Gestalt)....
