Jakub Szewczyk

PhD student

Address:

Zakład Psychofizjologii [Psychophysiology Lab],
Uniwersytet Jagielloński [Jagiellonian University],
Ingardena 6/608
30-060 Kraków
Poland

e-mail: jakub.szewczyk at uj.edu.pl

Education

1999-2004

MA studies, Psychology, Jagiellonian University. MA with honors

Grants and stipends:

2004	Co-investigator in State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) grant (ref. KBN 3PO5B 105 22) Assessment of cognitive impairments, neurophysiological and H-MRS examination in diagnosis of Subclinical Hepatic Encephalopathy, head: Agnieszka Słowik, PhD, MD (2002-2004)
2006-2007, 2010-2011	Jagiellonian University PhD scholarship
2006-2010	Scholarship from Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Information in Nijmegen (The Netherlands); cooperation with prof. Herbert Schriefers in conducting psycholinguistic experiments on Polish language
2007-2008	PI in Polish Ministry of Science grant (N N106 2677 33): Cognitive mechanisms of sentences perception – prediction of semantic information based on syntactic cues. EEG research on Polish
2009	Scholarschip for participation in Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science DUCOG’09, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2009
2008-2011	Co-investigator in Polish Ministry of Science grant (ref. N N404 153134) titled Patomechanism of neurophysiological imparirments in Subclinical Hepatic Encephalopathy; head: Irena Michalska, PhD, MD (2008-2011)
2009-2013	COST IS0804 project Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment; Management Committee substitute, member of “Syntax and interfaces with morphology and semantics” workgroup (2009-2013)
2010-2013	Co-investigator in Foundation for Polish Science grant “Focus” (head: Zofia Wodniecka, PhD) titled How bilingual experience influences flexibility of the cognitive system. Neural basics and consequences for social categorization.
2011	Iuventus Plus stipend from the Polish Ministry of Science
2011-2013	Co-investigator in Polish Ministry of Science grant (ref. N N106 366340) Development of bilingualism and changes to the cognitive control - behavioural and psychophysiological research (head: Zofia Wodniecka, PhD)

Publications:

Ciećko-Michalska I, Senderecka M, Szewczyk J, Panasiuk A, Słowik A, Wyczesany M, Binder M, Mach T. (2006) Event-related cerebral potentials for the diagnosis of subclinical hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis; Advances in Medical Sciences, v51, 273-277
Szewczyk, J. (2009). Metoda potencjałów wywołanych EEG w psycholingwistycznych badaniach nad przetwarzaniem zdań. Studia Psychologiczne, v47, 23-37 [in Polish]
Szewczyk J., Schriefers H. (2011) Is animacy special? ERP correlates of semantic violations and animacy violations in sentence processing”, Brain Research, v1368, 208-221, doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.070

Talks presented at international conferences

may 2006 – Krakow International Psychophysiological Workshop: Semantics – syntax interplay explored by ERP components.
april 2009 – Young Linguist Meeting in Poznań – Electrical language of the brain - how EEG helps us understand the brain understanding language
april 2009 - Young Linguist Meeting in Poznań – Anticipaing animacy? An event-related potentials study on Polish sentence reading
June 2009 - Krakow International Psychophysiological Workshop - Does the parser always care about animacy? (even if it plays no grammatical role)
May 2010 - Krakow International Psychophysiological Workshop - In search of semantic integration: an ERP repetition priming study.
May 2011 – Krakow International Psychophysiological Workshop – In search of semantic integration, Part Two.

Posters presented at international conferences

Szewczyk J. (2008) Does animacy make a difference? an ERP study on semantic violations in Polish. 10^th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, 01-05.09, Bodrum, Turkey.
Szewczyk J., Schriefers H. (2009) Semantic and animacy violations elicit different brain responses – an ERP study on Polish. 1^st Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Szewczyk J., Schriefers H. (2009) Semantic and animacy violations elicit different brain responses – an ERP study on Polish. Society for Psychophysiological Research conference, 21-24.10, Berlin, Germany
Senderecka M., Szewczyk J., Grabowska A. (2009) Effect of sensory modality of Go stimuli in the Stop-signal paradigm: a behavioral and ERP study. Society for Psychophysiological Research conference, 21-24.10, Berlin, Germany
Senderecka M., Szewczyk J., Gerc K., Chmylak R., Grabowska A. (2010) Stop signal task as a measure of response inhibition in children with ADHD: an event-related potential study. Krakow International Psychophysiological Workshop, 19-21.05, Kraków, Poland
Szewczyk J. (2010) N400 component does not reflect post-lexical integration difficulty an ERP study on Polish using repetition priming. International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Mid-Year Meeting, 30.06-03.07
Senderecka M., Szewczyk J., Gerc K., Chmylak R., Grabowska A. (2010) Inhibitory dysfunction in ADHD children: A behavioral and ERP study. International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Mid-Year Meeting, 30.06-03.07
Senderecka M., Szewczyk J., Gerc K., Chmylak R., Grabowska A. (2010) An ERP auditory oddball study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Mid-Year Meeting, 30.06-03.07
Senderecka M., Szewczyk J., Grabowska A. (2010) Event-related potentials to emotional auditory stimuli within an oddball task. International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Mid-Year Meeting, 30.06-03.07
Szewczyk J. (2010) Prediction of broad semantic classes of words, or sensitivity to semantic value of suffixes? An ERP study on Polish sentence reading. 11th International Science of Aphasia Conference, 27.08-01.09, Potsdam, Germany
Szewczyk J. (2011) Does the human comprehension system predict specific words or broad semantic classes of words? CUNY 2011: 24^th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 24-26.03.2011 Stanford University, USA.

Summer and winter schools

July-August 2009 – 16th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar (2 weeks), Poznań, Poland
February 2010 – REMICS 2010 - Research Methods in Cognitive Studies – an Interdisciplinary Winter School REMICS2010 (2 weeks), Zakopane, Poland
June 2010 - Summer School on Multimodal Approaches in Neuroscience (3 days), Leipzig, Germany