Małgorzata Wierzba, Ph.D. Postdoc m.wierzba@nencki.edu.pl

About me:

• 2020 (ongoing): Postdoc, Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Supervisor: prof. Artur Marchewka
  
• 2020 (ongoing): Affiliated Postdoc, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, INM-7: Brain and Behaviour, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
  Supervisor: prof. Michael Hanke
  
• 2014 - 2020: Ph.D., Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Supervisor: prof. Anna Grabowska
  
• 2013: M.Sc. in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Warsaw
• 2008: M.Sc. in Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

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Research interests:

cognitive neuroscience, emotion, natural language processing, data analysis, open science

Selected publications:

M. Wierzba, M. Riegel, M. Wypych, K. Jednoróg, A. Grabowska & A. Marchewka (2018) Cognitive control over memory – individual differences in memory performance for emotional and neutral material. Scientific Reports, 8:3808. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21857-1

Wierzba M., Riegel M., Pucz A., Leśniewska Z., Dragan W. Ł., Gola M., Jednoróg K., Marchewka A. (2015) Erotic subset for the Nencki Affective Picture System (NAPS ERO): cross-sexual comparison study. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1336. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01336

Wierzba M., Riegel M., Wypych M., Jednoróg K., Turnau P., Grabowska A., Marchewka A. (2015) Basic emotions in the Nencki Affective Word List (NAWL BE): new method of classifying emotional stimuli. PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132305

Riegel M., Żurawski Ł., Wierzba M., Moslehi A., Klocek Ł., Horvat M., Grabowska A., Michalowski J. Jednoróg K., Marchewka A. (2015) Characterization of the Nencki Affective Picture System by discrete emotional categories (NAPS BE). Behavior Research Methods, doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0620-1.

Riegel M., Wierzba M., Wypych M., Żurawski Ł., Jednoróg K., Grabowska A., Marchewka A. (2015) Nencki Affective Word List (NAWL): the cultural adaptation of the Berlin Affective Word List – Reloaded (BAWL-R). Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-014-0552-1

Funding:

• Postdoc in the National Science Centre GRIEG grant (No. 2019/34/H/HS6/0067)
• Principal Investigator in the National Science Centre ETIUDA grant (No. 2018/28/T/HS6/00507)
• Awarded with the Scholarship of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences for 2017/2018
• Principal Investigator in the National Science Centre PRELUDIUM grant (No. 2013/11/N/HS6/01786)

Speciality from my kitchen: Chocolate in every form. And mini-marshmallows.