ABOUT ME:

• from 2015: PhD Studies Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Thesis: Neuroplasticity and sign language: Insights from longitudinal and cross-sectional multimodal studies of hearing learners and deaf signers
  Supervisor: prof. Artur Marchewka
  
• 2008-2014: M. Sc. in Psychology Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
  Thesis: Familial risk of developmental dyslexia: behavioural and structural brain differences associated with socioeconomic status
  Supervisors: prof. Katarzyna Jednoróg and prof. Wojciech Dragan
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

brain plasticity, language/sign language, language learning, (bimodal) bilingualism

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Banaszkiewicz, A., Bola, Ł., Matuszewski, J., Szczepanik, M., Kossowski, B., Mostowski, P., Rutkowski, P., Śliwińska, M., Jednoróg, K., Emmorey, K. & Marchewka, A. (2021). The role of the superior parietal lobule in lexical processing of sign language: Insights from fMRI and TMS. Cortex, vol. 135, doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.025

Matuszewski, J., Kossowski, B., Bola, Ł., Banaszkiewicz, A., Paplińska, M., Gyger, L., Kheriff, F., Szwed, M., Frackowiak, R.S., Jednoróg, K., Draganski, B. & Marchewka, A. (2021). Brain plasticity dynamics during tactile Braille learning in sighted subjects: multi-contrast MRI approach. NeuroImage, vol. 227, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117613

Kuper, C.*, Matuszewski, J.*, Banaszkiewicz, A., Bola, Ł., Szczepanik, M., Draps, M., Kordos, P., Szwed, M., Jednoróg, K. & Marchewka, A. (2021). Functional reorganization of the reading network in the course of foreign language acquisition. NeuroImage, vol. 226(1), doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117544

Banaszkiewicz, A., Matuszewski, J., Bola, Ł., Szczepanik, M., Kossowski, B., Rutkowski, P., Szwed, M., Emmorey, K., Jednoróg, K. & Marchewka, A. (2020). Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in hearing late learners of sign language. Human Brain Mapping, doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25229

Łuniewska, M., Chyl, K., Dębska, A., Banaszkiewicz, A., Żelechowska, A., Marchewka, A., ... & Jednoróg, K. (2019). Children with dyslexia and familial risk for dyslexia present atypical development of the neuronal phonological network. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 1287, doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01287

Plewko, J., Chyl K., Bola, Ł., Łuniewska, M., Dębska, A., Banaszkiewicz, A., Wypych, M., Marchewka, A., van Atteveldt, N., Jednoróg, K. (2018). Letter and Speech Sound Association in Emerging Readers With Familial Risk of Dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 12, 1-13, doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00393

Chyl, K., Kossowski, B., Dębska, A., Łuniewska, M., Banaszkiewicz, A., Żelechowska, A., Frost, S.J., Mencl, W.E., Wypych, M., Marchewka, A., Jednoróg, K. (2017). Prereader to beginning reader: changes induced by reading acquisition in print and speech brain networks. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(1), 76-87, doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12774

Dębska A., Łuniewska M., Chyl K., Banaszkiewicz A., Żelechowska A., Wypych M., Marchewka A., Pugh K.R., Jednoróg K. (2016). Neural basis of phonological awareness in beginning readers with familial risk of dyslexia—Results from shallow orthography. NeuroImage, vol. 132, 406–416, doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.063

FUNDING:

• Principal Investigator in National Science Centre (ETIUDA grant, No. 2019/32/T/HS6/00529)
• Principal Investigator in National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM grant, No. 2017/27/N/HS6/02722)
• PhD Student in National Science Centre (HARMONIA grant, No. 2014/14/M/HS6/00918)
• Investigator in National Science Centre (SONATA grant, No. 2011/03/D/HS6/05584)