ABOUT ME:

• 2015 - 2020: PhD Studies Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Thesis: Tactile Braille reading in the brain: insights from longitudinal and cross-sectional MRI studies
  Supervisor: prof. Artur Marchewka
  
• 2010 - 2015: M. Sc. in Psychology Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
  Thesis: Fearful information processing in different types of phobia
  Supervisor: prof. Jarosław Michałowski
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

cross-modal perception, language, brain plasticity, methods and statistics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Matuszewski, J., Kossowski, B., Bola, Ł., Banaszkiewicz, A., Paplińska, M., Gyger, L., Kherif, F., Szwed, M., Frackowiak, RS., Jednoróg, K., Draganski, B., Marchewka, A. (2021). Brain plasticity dynamics during tactile Braille learning in sighted subjects: multi-contrast MRI approach NeuroImage, Volume 227, 117613, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117613

Molendowska, M.*, Matuszewski, J.*, Kossowski, B,, Bola, Ł., Banaszkiewicz, A., Paplińska, M., Jednoróg, K.,Draganski, B., Marchewka, A. (2021). Temporal Dynamics of Brain White Matter Plasticity in Sighted Subjects during Tactile Braille Learning: A Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study Journal of Neuroscience 18 August 2021, 41 (33) 7076-7085; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2242-20.2021

Banaszkiewicz, A., Bola, Ł., Matuszewski, J., Szczepanik, M., Kossowski, B., Mostowski, P., Rutkowski, P., Sliwinska, M., Jednoróg, K., Emmorey, K., Marchewka, A. (2020b). The role of the superior parietal lobule in lexical processing of sign language: Insights from fMRI and TMS Cortex, in press, doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.025

Kuper, C.*, Matuszewski, J. *, Banaszkiewicz, A., Bola, Ł., Szczepanik, M., Draps, M., Kordos, P., Szwed, M., Jednoróg, K., Marchewka, A. (2020). Functional reorganization of the reading network in the course of foreign language acquisition. NeuroImage, 226, 117544, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117544

Banaszkiewicz, A., Matuszewski, J., Bola, Ł., Szczepanik, M., Kossowski, B., Rutkowski, P., Szwed, M., Emmorey, K., Jednoróg, K., Marchewka, A. (2020a). Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in hearing late learners of sign language. Human Brain Mapping, doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25229

Bola, Ł.*, Matuszewski, J.*, Szczepanik, M., Droździel, D., Sliwinska, MW., Paplińska, M., Jednoróg, K., Szwed, M., Marchewka, A. (2019). Functional hierarchy for tactile processing in the visual cortex of sighted adults. NeuroImage, 202, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116084

Michałowski, J.M., Matuszewski, J., Droździel, D., Koziejowski, W., Rynkiewicz, A., Jednoróg, K., & Marchewka, A. (2017). Neural response patterns in spider, blood-injection-injury and social fearful individuals: new insights from a simultaneous EEG/ECG–fMRI study. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 11, 829-845. doi: 10.1007/s11682-016-9557-y.

Michałowski, J.M., Droździel, D., Matuszewski, J. , Koziejowski W., Jednoróg K., Marchewka A. (2017). The Set of Fear Inducing Pictures (SFIP): Development and validation in fearful and nonfearful individuals. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1407-1419. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0797-y

FUNDING:

• Principal Investigator in National Science Centre (ETIUDA grant, No. 2019/32/T/HS6/00496)