ABOUT ME:

Education:

•  Full Professor, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS (2018)
•  DSc Habil, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS (2007)
•  PhD in Biology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS (1993)
•  MSc in Theoretical Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology (1982)

Honors & awards:

•  Jerzy Konorski Award from Polish Neuroscience Society and Neurobiology Committee PAS for the best Polish publication in the field of neurobiology published in 2011, 2012

Scientific collaborations:

• 2007-2011: dr Andre Brechmann, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
• 1994-2000: prof. James Ringo, School of Medicine University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

ONLINE:

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5791-7237

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

•  neurobiological basis of consciousness and self-consciousness
•  prioritized processing of self-related information (in typically developing populations and in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder)
•  continuity of the self across the time
•  neural underpinnings of efficient memory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Wójcik M. J., Nowicka M. M., Bola M., Nowicka A. (2019). Unconscious detection of one’s own image.  Psychological Science, 30(4):471-480.
• Cygan HB, Marchewka A, Kotlewska I, Nowicka A. (2019). Neural Correlates of Reflection on Present and Past Selves in Autism Spectrum Disorder.  J Autism Dev Disord. 49(3):1267-1277.
• Kotlewska I., Wójcik M. J., Nowicka M. M., Marczak K., Nowicka A. (2017). Present and past selves: a steady-state visual evoked potentials approach to self-face processing. Scientific Reports, 7(1):16438.
• Nowicka A, Cygan HB, Tacikowski P, Ostaszewski P, Kuś R. (2016). Name recognition in autism: EEG evidence of altered patterns of brain activity and connectivity.  Mol Autism. Sep 6;7(1):38.
• Nowicka A, Marchewka A, Jednoróg K, Tacikowski P, Brechmann A. (2011). Forgetting of emotional information is hard: an fMRI study of directed forgetting.  Cereb Cortex. 21(3):539-49.Tacikowski P, Nowicka A. (2010). Allocation of attention to self-name and self-face: An ERP study.  Biol Psychol. 84(2):318-24.

FUNDING:

• (2019-now) National Science Centre (Principal Investigator, OPUS: Prioritized self-referential processing: effects of familiarity and emotional relevance, 2018/31/B/HS6/00461, Nencki Institute)
• (2016-2019) National Science Centre (Principal Investigator, OPUS: The influence of self-esteem on preferential processing of self-related information: electrophysiological study, 2015/19/B/HS6/01258, Nencki Institute)
• (2013-2016) National Science Centre (Principal Investigator, OPUS: Continuity of the self across the time: Neural correlates of processing of information related to the present and past self, 2012/07/B/HS6/01283, Nencki Institute)
• (2011-2014) National Science Centre (Principal Investigator, OPUS: Processing of self-related information in autism spectrum disorder: the electrophysiological study, 2011/01/B/HS6/00683, Nencki Institute)