Projects of our Team

The thin line between conflict and time on task. Exploring the nature of the medial frontal cortex activity - a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study. [ONGOING]

National Science Centre registered as 2016/21/D/HS6/02962
PI: Ewa Beldzik

 

Domino Effect: the impact of motor cortex dysfunction upon higher cognitive processes in individuals with Asperger Syndrome. [ONGOING]

PI: Anna Beres, Tadeusz Marek
Co-PI: Andrzej Dabrowski PhD (University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszow)

 

Relations in top-down processes during mental imagery of pain in fibromyalgia - an fMRI study. [ONGOING]

PI: Tadeusz Marek
Co-PI: Marcin Gajdosz, MD, Lukasz Malecki, MD, prof. Jerzy Wordliczek, MD, PhD (JU Medical College)

 

Neural correlates of temperament dimensions in error monitoring and learning under reward and punishment conditions - dEEG and fMRI studies. [FINISHED]

National Science Centre registered as 2012/05/E/HS6/03553
PI: Justyna Mojsa-Kaja

 

Neural systems for error monitoring: activity patterns of detection and correction of erroneous saccadic reactions and their circadian stability in chronic sleep deficit state - simultaneous dense array EEG and oculographic study. [FINISHED]

National Science Centre Research Project registered as 2011/01/B/HS6/00446
PI: Tadeusz Marek

Projects in collaboraton with external scientific units

The dual role of the blue light - an interdisciplinary study on effects of the short wavelength visible light on circadian regulation, neural aspects of cognitive and effective functioning, and on the light contribution to degeneration and pathologies of retina. [ONGOING]

National Science Centre Research Project registered as 2013/08/W/NZ3/00700
PI: Tadeusz Sarna
Co-PI: Tadeusz Marek, Marian Lewandowski
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Time-of-day impact on neural mechanism of short-term memory distortions elicited by lexical and spatial interferences - fMRI study. [ONGOING]

National Science Centre Research Project registered as 2013/08/M/HS6/00042
PI: Magdalena Fafrowicz

Space to reason - the role of visual displays and gestures in deductive reasoning. [ONGOING]

PI: Robert Mackiewicz, PhD (Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw) in collaboration with Prof. Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird (Princeton University, USA)
our Team: Ewa Beldzik, Aleksandra Domagalik, Magdalena Fafrowicz, Tadeusz Marek

Brain mechanisms of emotional control. Integrative role of the prefrontal cortex in modulation of affective processes. [ONGOING]

PI: Mirosław Wyczesany, PhD (Institute of Psychology, JU, Krakow)
our Team: Anna Beres, Aleksandra Domagalik, Tadeusz Marek

Assessment of autonomic dysfunction prevalence in patients with primary systemic vasculitis - an fMRI study. [ONGOING]

PI: Anna Włudarczyk, MD (Department of Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, JU Medical College, Krakow)
our Team: Aleksandra Domagalik, Tadeusz Marek

Influence of training improving physical fitness on central nervous system in elderly people. [ONGOING]

PI: Joanna Pera, MD, DSc (Department of Neurology, JU Medical College, Krakow)
Co-PI: Jadwiga Kubica, Jadwiga Szymura (University of Physical Education in Krakow)
our Team: Aleksandra Domagalik, Tadeusz Marek

The Neural Correlates of Self-Relevant Information: An Autism Family Study [ONGOING]

Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher Award registered as US/2018/04/ST
PI: Ania Holubecki (Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher)
our Team: Anna Bereś, Tadeusz Marek
other Collaborators: Krzysztof Gerc (Department of Developmental and Health Psychology, Institute of Applied Psychology, JU, Krakow)

Sense of humor in schizophrenia - characteristics of the neuronal basis of processes related to humor comprehension deficits in people suffering from schizophrenic psychoses. [FINISHED]

PI: Przemysław Adamczyk, PhD (Department of Community Psychiatry, JU Medical College, Krakow)
our Team: Aleksandra Domagalik, Tadeusz Marek

Characteristics of the neural correlates of diminished metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia. [ONGOING]

PI: Przemysław Adamczyk, PhD (Institute of Psychology, JU, Krakow)
our Team: Aleksandra Domagalik, Tadeusz Marek

A relationship between systemic inflammation and post-stroke depressive symptoms - factors that facilitate depressogenic effect of systemic inflammation in stroke patients. [ONGOING]

PI: Tomasz Dziedzic, MD, PhD, DSc (Department of Neurology, JU Medical College, Krakow)
our Team: Monika Cichocka, Magdalena Fafwowicz, Tadeusz Marek

Neuronal mechanisms of convergence insufficiency with unilateral exophoria at near in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and healthy controls. [ONGOING]

PI: Adrian Chrobak, MD, Dominika Dudek, MC, PhD, DSc (Department of Adult Psychiatry, JU Medical College, Krakow)
our Team: Magdalena Fafrowicz, Tadeusz Marek

Study of structural and functional neural correlates of the newly discovered implicit motor learning impairments in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients. [ONGOING]

PI: Adrian Chrobak, MD (Department of Adult Psychiatry, JU Medical College, Krakow)
our Team: Magdalena Fafrowicz, Tadeusz Marek

Neural correlates of burnout syndrome. [FINISHED]

PI: Krystyna Golonka, PhD (Institute of Applied Psychology, JU, Krakow)
our Team: Magda Gawlowska

Visual elements of emotionally charged stimuli derived with neuro-based digital image analysis and assessment of their attentional impact using neuroimaging. [FINISHED]

PI: Michał Kuniecki, MD (Institute of Psychology, JU, Krakow)
our Team: Aleksandra Domagalik, Tadeusz Marek

PhD projects of our staff

Visual short-term memory functioning in older and younger adults - neurocognitive perspective

PhD project of Barbara Sikora-Wachowicz, MA
Supervisor: Prof. Tadeusz Marek
Realized within ISSBD-JF  Mentored Fellowship Program for Early Career Scholars 

Response bias in a visual working memory recognition task - a neurocognitive perspective

PhD project of Koryna Lewandowska, MA
Supervisor: Prof. Tadeusz Marek

Determination of metabolic brain model in children using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS)

PhD project of Monika Cichocka, MSc
Supervisor: Prof. Andrzej Urbanik

Neural bases of “the positivity effect” in ageing

PhD project of Magdalena Wielgus, MA
Supervisor: Prof. Tadeusz Marek

Application of nonlinear correlation in the functional magnetic resonance data analysis.

PhD project of Anna Ceglarek, MA
Supervisor: Prof. Tadeusz Marek