drKarolina Rataj

Karolina Rataj
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

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Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2001
  • Ph.D in Linguistics, Poznań, 2005

Managerial positions

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Semantic processing
  • Figurative language comprehension in L1 and L2
  • Figurative language comprehension in schizophrenia and aphasia
  • Experimental methods in language processing studies
  • Event-related brain potentials of language processing and comprehension
  • Electrophysiological correlates of metaphor comprehension
  • Electrophysiological correlates of creativity

Professional experience

  • Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomic, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2015-2016 (Concept Creation Technology EU FP7 2013-16)

Research projects

  • 2018-2021 The role of inhibition in semantic processing in a within-language and between-language context: Event-related potential studies. National Science Center, OPUS 13, no. 2017/25/B/HS6/00676, Principal Investigator
  • 2018-2021 Novel metaphoric meaning comprehension in bilingualism: An event-related potential study. National Science Centre, no. 2017/25/N/HS2/00615, Co-Investigator

Professional training

  • Neuroimaging of the structure and function of the human brain, Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej, Warszawa (2008)
  • Using E-prime in behavioral studies (organizer), School of English, UAM, Poznań (2011)
  • Introduction to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and electrophysiological methods, Pracownia Fizyki Widzenia i Optometrii, UAM, Poznań (2011)
  • Brain stimulation methods, a study visit at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Germany (2011)
  • The Course of Transcranial Magnetic and Electric Stimulation (TMS/tDCS/tACS/tRNS), Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Germany (February 21-23, 2012)
  • BrainVision Analyzer Intermediate User Workshop, Berlin, Germany (October 29-30, 2013)
  • BESA® Research Workshop, Munich, Germany (March 23-24, 2015)
  • Ethics in clinical research, Warsaw, Poland (June 13, 2015)
  • Multilevel modelling, Vienna, Austria (October 11, 2017)

Memberships, Advisory Boards and Committees

  • Deputy chair, Human Research Ethics Committee at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (2016 until now)
  • Member, Human Research Ethics Committee at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (2014-2016)
  • Member, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2017 until now)
  • Member, De Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (2015-2017)
  • Member, Faculty of English Program Advisory Board (2013-2015)

Teaching experience

  • PhD lectures for Language, Society, Technology and Communication, 2011, 2012, 2014
  • MA and BA seminars on language processing
  • Research methods in linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive neuroscience of language
  • Clinical linguistics
  • Language and cognition
  • Practical English at university level

Papers read at international conferences

  • 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland, 2006
  • 15th European Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain, March 17-21, 2007 (poster session)
  • XIXth International Conference on Foreign / Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland, May 17-19, 2007
  • The First Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition, Lund, Sweden, November 29 – December 1, 2007
  • The First Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics, Joensuu, Finland, February 9-10, 2008
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland, September 11-14, 2008
  • 6th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon Banff, Canada, October 7-10, 2008
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland, September 2-5, 2009
  • Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium, May 18-19, 2009
  • XLIII Zjazd Psychiatrów, Poznań, Poland, June 23-26, 2010
  • Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, May 25-27, 2012 (workshop leader)
  • Researching and Applying Metaphor, Poznań, Poland, May 2-3, 2013 (plenary speaker,  workshop leader)
  • Neuronus, Kraków, Poland, May 9-11, 2013
  • Neuronus, Kraków, Poland, April 17-19, 2015
  • 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-20, 2015
  • Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models (UICM5), Brussels, Belgium, September 24-25, 2015
  • NVP Winter Conference, Egmond, the Netherlands, December 17-19, 2015
  • Workshop on Metaphor, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 13-15, 2016
  • Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Bilbao, Spain, September 1-3, 2016
  • Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, November 25-27, 2016 (plenary speaker)
  • One-day workshop on brain oscillations: from brain function to cognitive disease, Seville, Spain, May 24, 2017
  • Philosophy of Language and Cognition: Revising formal semantic and pragmatic theories from a neurocognitive perspective, Bochum, Germany, June 19-20, 2017
  • Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland, September 18-20, 2017
  • 57th Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vienna, Austria, October 11-15, 2017
  • Formulaic Language Processing and Acquisition Research, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, June 18-19, 2018
  • Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland, September 16-18, 2019
  • 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Tenerife, Spain, September 25-28, 2019

Peer reviewer for

  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
  • Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Polish National Science Centre)
  • Advances in Cognitive Psychology
  • Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
  • Biological Psychology
  • Brain Research
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Language and Speech
  • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
  • Psychology of Language and Communication

Invited lectures

  • Akademia Bydgoska im. Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2002
  • Katedra Ekokomunikacji, Poznań, Poland, 2005
  • Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2005
  • Wojewódzki Szpital dla Nerwowo i Psychicznie Chorych, Świecie, Poland, 2006
  • Växjö University, Sweden, 2008
  • Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Poland, 2010
  • Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 2017

Other talks and presentations

  • Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain, November 2010
  • 111 Years of English Studies in Poznań, AMU, Poznań, April 2014
  • Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November, 2015
  • Department of Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomic, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, May, 2016

Honours

  • AMU Rector's Award for organisational achievements (2013)
  • AMU Rector's Award for organisational achievements (2017)
  • AMU Rector’s Scientific Award for publications (2019)