Alicja Brzozowska

PhD Student

abrzoz02@mail.bbk.ac.uk / Twitter: @alicjabrzo

Research interests

The aim of my PhD project is to look into potential mechanisms through which touch may affect infant learning. To this end, during the first half of my project for which I am based at Procter & Gamble in Germany, I employ a wide range of developmental research methods, including eye tracking, heart rate measurements, hormone assays and online diaries. In the second half, at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, I am planning to conduct EEG and/or fNIRS studies.

My PhD project is part of the INTERLEARN European Industrial Doctorate programme and it has received funding from the European Unions’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement no. 721895

 

Supervisors

Prof. Denis Mareschal

Dr Frank Wiesemann (P&G)

Dr Teodora Gliga

Prof. Matthew Longo

 

Education

PhD in Psychology, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2017 – present)

MSc in Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (2011 – 2017)

BSc in Neuroinformatics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (2012 – 2015)

 

Publications

Labecki, M., Kus, R., Brzozowska, A., Stacewicz, T., Bhattacharya, B., & Suffczynski, P. (2016). Nonlinear Origin of SSVEP Spectra—A Combined Experimental and Modeling Study. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 10, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2016, Vol.10.

 

Posters & talks

Brzozowska, A., Wiesemann F., Gliga, T., Longo, M., Mareschal, D. (2020). Affective touch and sustained attention in 6- to 13-month-olds. Poster accepted for the International Congress of Infant Studies (Glasgow, UK; cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis)

Brzozowska, A., Mareschal, D., Longo, M., Wiesemann, F., Gliga, T. (2020). Frontal EEG asymmetry in response to adult faces varying in familiarity, gender and displayed emotion in 6-month-olds. Poster accepted for the International Congress of Infant Studies (Glasgow, UK; cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis)

Brzozowska, A., Gliga, T., Wiesemann, F., Longo, M., Mareschal, D. (2019). Caregiver touch, infant arousal and latencies to approach novel objects. Poster presented at International Association for the Study of Affective Touch Conference (Linköping, Sweden)

Brzozowska, A., Gliga, T., Wiesemann, F., Longo, M., Mareschal, D. (2019). Caregiver touch and infant attention to faces. Talk given at Cognitive Psychology Section & Developmental Psychology Section Joint Conference (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)

Brzozowska, A., Wiesemann, F., Longo, M., Mareschal, D., Gliga, T. (2019). Caregivers’ touch and infant arousal and attention to faces. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (Baltimore, MD, USA)

Brzozowska, A., Wiesemann, F., Longo, M., Mareschal, D., Gliga, T. (2019). Quantifying exposure to social touch in infancy. Poster presented at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (Budapest, Hungary)

Haman, M., Brzozowska, A., Lipowska, K. (2018). Non-symbolic arithmetic in children – fNIRS study. European Workshop on Cognitive Psychology (Bressanone, Italy)