Principal Investigator
I am an associate professor at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University. My research interests include bilingualism, bilingual language processing, and cognitive functions underlying a second language use. I received my Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Jagiellonian University and completed a postdoctoral training at York University and the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Canada (2005-2007) as well as at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (Group of Eight European Fellowship 2009). Prior to my Ph.D., I was a pre-doc at Penn State University, USA (Fulbright Junior Fellowship). In 2010, I received the Focus subsidy from the Foundation for Polish Science, which gave the wonderful opportunity to establish a new research team focused on bilingualism research. (Photo by Agnieszka Fiejka)
Postdoctoral researcher
My general research interest is psycho-/neuro-linguistics at the sentence level. I'm specifically interested in the processing of English wh-dependencies as well as the interaction between domain-general cognitive control and the processing of English wh-dependencies. I'm also starting to explore and gain more interests in issues of bilingualism.
PhD Student
I am a PhD student at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University. My main line of research centers on the role of bilingualism in cognitive control mechanisms. I have a special interest in overlapped words in different languages. I completed my master education in Neuroscience and Neuropsychology at University of Warsaw, Poland. Before joining the LangUsta team, I completed short term research visit under the supervision of Friedemann Pulvermuller, Prof. at Brain Language Laboratory, Free University, Berlin. Apart from scientific interests, I enjoy graphical designs, water-coloring and other forms of artistic expression.
PhD Student
I am a PhD student of the CogNeS program at the Jagiellonian University. My main research interests are focused on cross-language similarity, language control, and their interplay. I completed my master’s in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before joining LangUsta as a doctoral student, I cooperated with the team as a scholar of the Lane Kirkland Scholarship program supported by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation (PAFF).
Research assistant
I am a master's Cognitive Science student at Jagiellonian University. Finishing my bachelor's in Physics made me interested in the foundation of the perception of time and space, multisensory integration and how these processes are encoded in language. In my free time I dance bachata and craft handmade candles.
Master's student
I am a psychology and journalism student at Jagiellonian University. My research interest is the intersection between bilingualism and decision-making. In LangUsta I am working on my Master's thesis on whether selective access to both languages depends on typological similarity between pairs of languages.
Master's student
I am a master's Neurobiology student at Jagiellonian University. I wrote my bachelor's thesis on neuroadaptive changes occurring in the brains of bilingual individuals, and it was the topic that made me highly interested in neurolinguistics. Personally, I love expressing myself through art, and jewellery making gives me a lot of satisfaction.