Since 2017: Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum

2015: Visiting Researcher
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

2013-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher
Saarland University, Saarbrücken

2012-2013: Research Associate
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

2007: Research Assistant
Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal
 

2008-2012: Doctorate
School of Psychological Sciences, Human Memory Laboratory University of Manchester, UK

2005: Erasmus Program
Pécs University, Hungary

2002-2006: M. Sc. in Clinical Psychology (5-year degree) 
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal

• Pfaffenrot V, Bouyeure A, Gomes CA, Kashyap S, Axmacher N, Norris DG (2025) Characterizing BOLD activation patterns in the human hippocampus with laminar fMRI. Imaging Neuosci 3:imag_a_00532. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00532
   
• Lukaschewski TM, Waldhauser GT, Dings R, Heinen R, Gomes CA, Newen A, Axmacher N (2023) Visual perspective in autobiographical memories of self-incongruent episodes. Memory 31(10):1306-1319. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2260571
   
• Labrenz F, Spisák T, Ernst TM, Gomes CA, Quick HH, Axmacher N, Elsenbruch S, Timmann D (2022) Temporal dynamics of fMRI signal changes during conditioned interoceptive pain-related fear and safety acquisition and extinction. Behav Brain Res 427:113868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113868
   
• Gomes CA, Montaldi D, Mayes A (2021) Can pupillometry distinguish accurate from inaccurate familiarity? Psychophysiology 58(8):e13825. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13825
   
• Chen S, Tan Z, Xia W, Gomes CA, Zhang X, Zhou W, Liang S, Axmacher N, Wang L (2021) Theta oscillations synchronize human medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala during fear learning. Sci Adv 7(34):eabf4198. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf4198
   
• Gomes CA, Steiner KM, Ludolph N, Spisak T, Ernst TM, Mueller O, Göricke SL, Labrenz F, Ilg W, Axmacher N, Timmann D (2021) Resection of cerebellar tumours causes widespread and functionally relevant white matter impairments. Hum Brain Mapp 42(6):1641-1656. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25317
   
• Ramm M, Sundermann B, Gomes CA, Möddel G, Langenbruch L, Nayyeri MD, Young P, Pfleiderer B, Krebs RM, Axmacher N (2021) Probing the relevance of the hippocampus for conflict-induced memory improvement. Neuroimage 226:117563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117563
   
• Bierbrauer A, Kunz L, Gomes CA, Luhmann M, Deuker L, Getzmann S, Wascher E, Gajewski PD, Hengstler JG, Fernandez-Alvarez M, Atienza M, Cammisuli DM, Bonatti F, Pruneti C, Percesepe A, Bellaali Y, Hanseeuw B, Strange BA, Cantero JL, Axmacher N (2020) Unmasking selective path integration deficits in Alzheimer's disease risk carriers. Sci Adv 6(35):eaba1394. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba1394
   
• Gomes CA, Mayes A (2020) Study-test congruence of response levels in item stimulus-response priming. Mem Cognit 48(5):839-855. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01021-9
   
• Ramm M, Sundermann B, Gomes CA, Möddel G, Langenbruch L, Nagelmann N, Dehghan Nayyeri M, Young P, Pfleiderer B, Axmacher N. (2020) Reduced Hippocampal Recruitment During Response Conflict Resolution in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neuroimage 213:116723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116723
   
• Gomes CA, Mecklinger A, Zimmer H (2019) The neural mechanism of fluency-based memory illusions: the role of fluency context. Learn Mem 26(2):61-65. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.048637.118
   
• Gomes CA, Mecklinger A, Zimmer H (2017) Behavioural and neural evidence for the impact of fluency context on conscious memory. Cortex 92:271-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.04.008
   
• Gomes CA, Figueiredo P, Mayes A (2016) Priming for novel object associations: Neural differences from object item priming and equivalent forms of recognition. Hippocampus 26(4):472-491. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22537
   
• Gomes CA, Montaldi D, Mayes A (2015) The pupil as an indicator of unconscious memory: Introducing the pupil priming effect. Psychophysiology 52(6):754-769. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12412
   
• Gomes CA, Mayes A (2015) Does long-term object priming depend on the explicit detection of object identity at encoding? Front Psychol 6:270. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00270
   
• Gomes CA, Mayes A (2015) The kinds of information that support novel associative object priming and how these differ from those that support item priming. Memory 23(6):901-927. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.937722

• 2008-2012: PhD scholarship
  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
• 2005: Erasmus scholarship
  Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA)

Poster presentations

• A robust, containerised workflow for processing multi-session, ultra high-field, high-res MRI data, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 06/2024, Seoul, South Korea
• Investigating the stability of resting state networks: A comparison of different statistical methods, Resting-State and Brain Connectivity conference, 09/2023, Dallas, USA
• Predicting inter-individual differences in extinction learning efficacy from a combination of functional, structural and effective connectivity, International Conference on Learning and Memory, 04/2023, Huntington Beach, USA
• Functional, effective and structural connectivity within the extinction network, International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience, 05/2022, Helsinki, Finland
• Investigating the stability of resting state networks: A comparison of different statistical methods, Resting-State and Brain Connectivity conference, 09/2018, Montreal, Canada
• A study of the cognitive basis of entrepreneurship, International Congress of Psychology, 07/2016, Yokohama, Japan
• Investigating visual object priming using pupillometry, European Conference on Visual Perception, 08/2011, Toulouse, France
• Perceptual object priming in the absence of recognition memory, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 06/2010, Toronto, Canada
• Perceptual learning for multiple face orientations, European Conference on Visual Perception, 08/2009, Regensburg, Germany

Talks

• Differences in the neural substrates of conscious and unconscious associative memory, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 03/2015, Beijing, China
• The impact of relative fluency on recollection and familiarity: an fMRI study, Brain Imaging Group Annual Meeting, 11/2014, Homburg, Germany
• Exploring the neural correlates of novel associative priming, Brain Imaging Interest Group, IST, 12/2011, Lisbon, Portugal
• Novel associative priming for object pictures, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, 03/2011, Manchester, UK

• Seminar Imaging Techniques in Neuropsychology
  Since 2021; M. Sc. Psychology und Cognitive Neuroscience, M. Sc. Cognitive Science
• Seminar Neuropsychologische Methoden
  2019-2020; M. Sc. Psychology und Cognitive Neuroscience, M. Sc. Cognitive Science