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Curriculum Vitae - Ioana Tincas, MSc


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 Ioana
Tincas
27.01.1982, Baia Mare, Romania
Single
Education:
  • 2000 - 2004: BA in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
  • 2004 - 2005: Master in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Facultatea de Psihologie si Stiintele Educatiei, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca.
  • 2005 - present: PhD in Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Mircea Miclea.
Training and courses:
  • 2003: International Summer School Development across the life span: Cognitive perspectives, September 12-19, 2003, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • 2004 - 2006: Training in Cognitive Psychothrapy (levels I, II and III-A). Organized by the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • 2004: 11th International Summer School in Cognitive Science, July 4-24, 2004, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 2005: Training in coding of the Strange Situation Procedure - preschool version. Organized by the Institute for Child Development, Bucharest and the Tulane Foundation, as part of the Educational ChildNet Program.
  • 2005: Course Social Memory and Public Discourse of Controversial Events, organized by the „Al. I. Cuza" University, Iasi and the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University, Budapest.
  • 2006: PENS/Hertie Winter School Brain basis of social interaction: From concepts to imaging, December 10-17, 2006, Kitzbuehel, Austria.
Languages:
  • Romanian, native
  • English, fluent
  • Italian, average
Grants, scholarships, awards:
  • 2003: Prize awarded by the Romanian Society for Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry for the poster presentet at The 4th National Congress and the 26th National Conference of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology, Timisoara, May 14-17, 2003.
  • 2004: Full scholarship for participation in the 11th International Summer School in Cognitive Science Sofia, New Bulgarian University, awarded by the Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 2004: Alexandru Rosca award from the Social and Humanistic Sciences Institute of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca.
  • Grant CEEX-ET no. 131/2006: Critical periods in the development of executive functions. Grant director: Assoc. Prof. Oana Benga, PhD.
  • Grant CEEX-M1 no. 124/2006: A neurocognitive and developmental analysis of anxiety. Optimizing diagnosis and therapeutic methods (AnxNeuroCog). Grant director: Prof. Mircea Miclea, PhD.
  • Grant CNCSIS-Bd no. 193/2005-2008 (Scientific research / artistic creation scholarship for young doctoral students).
Research areas:
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the development of anxiety.
  • Autism
Publications:
  • Visu-Petra L., Benga O., Tincas I., Miclea M. (2007), Visual-spatial processing in children and adolescents with Down’s syndrome: A computerized assessment of memory skills. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 942-952.
  • Petra L.A., Benga O., Tincas I. (2005), A dynamic approach to the co-construction of autobiographical memory: Insights from dyadic conversations about the past. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), CogSci 2005: XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1732-1738). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
  • Tincas I., Dragos R., Ionescu T., Benga O. (2007), Attentional set-shifting in preschoolers: anxiety-related response patterns. Cognition, Brain, Behavior, XI, 553-570.
  • Tincas I., Benga O., Fox N.A. (2006), Temperamental predictors of anxiety disorders, Cognition, Brain, Behavior, X, 489-515.
  • Tincas I. (2004), Autism and regularity detection: Explorations using an artificial neural network. Cognition, Brain, Behavior, VIII, 409-431.
Conference abstracts and posters:
  • Tincas I., Benga O, Visu-Petra L. (2006), Attentional flexibility in preschool children: Individual differences related to temperament and anxiety symptoms. Poster presented at the PENS/Hertie Winter School Brain basis of social interaction: From concepts to imaging, December 10-17, 2006, Kitzbuehel, Austria.
  • Benga O., Tincas I., Petra L. (2006), Cognitive and affective control in anxiety disorders: Neurobiological and neurocomputational mechanisms. Poster presented at The Fifth Forum of European Neuroscience, July 8-12, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
  • Tincas I., Benga O. (2006), Memory performance in the deferred imitation task in autistic children: Is generalization unimpaired? Poster presented at The Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, June 9-13, 2006, Sankt Petersburg, Rusia.
  • Petra L., Benga O., Tincas I. (2006), Hippocampal-sensitive memory performance in children with autism and Down syndrome: An analysis of cognitive and neurocomputational processes. Poster presented at The Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, June 9-13, 2006, Sankt Petersburg, Rusia.
  • Tincas I., Benga O., Petra L.A. (2006), Declarative memory an generalization abilities in Autism and Down syndrome: A comparative study. [In Romanian] Paper presented at The National Psychology Conference, May 18-21, 2006, Cluj-Napoca.