PhD Student/ Demonstrator
Spervisors
Professor Ori Ossmy
Professor Denis Marechal
Professor Emily Jones
Research Interests
My PhD research focuses on using virtual reality to characterise neurodevelopmental conditions, specifically ADHD in school-aged children, from the perspective of embodied cognition. I am particularly interested in using movement data(from VR) to understand cognitive differences in children with ADHD, how the physical environment affects their problem-solving abilities, and how movement can be operationalised to answer these questions. Additionally, I use functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate resting-state brain activity in relation to these cognitive processes and individual differences.
Education
- MSc Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, 2022
- BSc Biomedicine, Birkbeck, University of London, 2020
- BA Cultural Studies with Human-Computer Interaction, University of Lodz, Poland, 2014
Poster Presentations
Muszynska, M., & Ossmy, O. (2024). Digital phenotyping: Characterising individual cognitive differences in ADHD using embodied virtual reality [Poster presentation]. UK Sensorimotor Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Muszynska, M., & Ossmy, O. (2024). Digital phenotyping: Characterising individual cognitive differences in ADHD using embodied virtual reality [Poster presentation]. Neurodevelopmental Annual Seminar (NDAS), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Muszynska, M., & Ossmy, O. (2024). Digital phenotyping: Characterising individual cognitive differences in ADHD using embodied virtual reality [Poster presentation]. Respect4Neurodevelopment Conference, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.
Muszynska, M., & Ossmy, O. (2024). Digital phenotyping: Characterising individual cognitive differences in ADHD using embodied virtual reality [Poster presentation]. Joint Conference on Serious Games, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Muszynska, M., Varma, R., & Ossmy, O. (2025). Using embodied virtual reality to characterise individual differences in attention across school-aged children with ADHD [Poster presentation]. Flux Congress (The Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience).
Muszynska, M., Serino, G., Dalton, R., Pinti, P., & Ossmy, O. (2025). Effects of physical activity on functional connectivity in children with ADHD: A virtual reality study [Poster presentation]. Flux Congress (The Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience).
Muszynska, M., Serino, G., Dalton, R., Pinti, P., & Ossmy, O. (2025). Effects of physical activity on functional connectivity in children with ADHD: A virtual reality study [Poster presentation]. fNIRS Conference.
Talks
Muszynska, M., Dalton, R., Pinti, P., Kumar, S., Farran, E. K., & Ossmy, O. (2025). Using virtual reality and psychophysics to test embodied cognitive flexibility in children with ADHD [Conference presentation]. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Prague, Czech Republic.
Research Experience
Research Assistant, PeliCan Lab, University of Lancaster – Pediatric Hearing Lab, Supervised by Dr Hannah Stewart
Affiliated Researcher, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine