•    Postdoctoral Research at Carnegie Mellon University-Pittsburgh-PA-USA-Sept. 01,

    •    1999- Aug. 31, 2000.
       Department of Psychology
       Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
       Research in the area of Cognitive Psychology
       Title of the project: Main idea identification: A Functional Imaging Study of a
       Complex Cognitive Process
       Grant BEX0300/99-3  by CAPES Foundation- Brasília- Brazil.
  •    Ph.D in English from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina- Brazil- 1995

    •    Title of the dissertation: Reading: Text Organization Perception and Working
       Memory Capacity
     
  •    Master in English from  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina- 1988

    •    Title of the thesis:  Schema Activation and Text Comprehension