drKatarzyna Jankowiak

Katarzyna Jankowiak
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2012
  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2014
  • Ph.D. in English Linguistics (summa cum laude), Poznań, 2018

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Clinical linguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Figurative language processing
  • Event-related potentials in language comprehension
  • Psychophysiological measures of emotional language processing in L1 and L2
  • Stereotypes and cognition

Research projects

  • COMENIUS Regio - “Inter-Community learning – Booster Skills”, Lifelong Learning Programme, Tuszyn, 18-22 February 2013
  • Tablit - an innovative kindergarten curriculum, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, January – June 2013
  • Gender in textbooks – research project financed from EOG funds within the program "Citizens for Democracy" (Project ID: E2/0689), Interdisciplinary Center for Gender and Identity Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2013-2015
  • Novel metaphoric meaning comprehension in bilingualism: An event-related potential study – research grant funded by the National Science Centre (Project ID: UMO-2017/25/N/HS2/00615) - Principal Investigator, 2018-2021
  • The influence of mood on semantic processes in bilingualism: An ERP study – research grant funded by the National Science Centre (Project ID: 2018/31/N/HS2/00120) – Co-Investigator, 2019-2022
  • Speak your heart out: Neurophysiological correlates of emotional speech production in bilingualism – research grant funded by the National Science Centre (Project ID: 2020/37/B/HS6/00610) – Co-Investigator, 2021-2025
  • The compassionate interpreter: Emotional language in interpreting – research grant funded by the National Science Centre (Project ID: 2020/39/D/HS2/00326) – Co-Investigator, 2021-2023
  • EPICUR Research Agenda – Shaping European Society in Transition – project funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 framework program (Project ID: 101016926) – Project Officer, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2021-2023
  • Stereotypically thinking: Neural correlates of stereotype processing in the native and non-native language – research grant funded by the National Science Centre (Project ID: 2021/41/B/HS2/00249) - Principal Investigator, 2022-2025

Teaching experience

  • TEFL (Grammar, Communicative Practice, Integrated Skills, Writing, Translation)
  • Research methods in linguistic research
  • Clinical linguistics
  • Statistics in linguistic research
  • Trends and advances in linguistic research

Professional organizations

Specialized training

  • Interdisciplinary College (IK), Spring School, Focus Theme: Cognition 3.0 – the social mind in the connected world, Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany, 14-21 March 2014
  • “An introduction to R”, PAZUR: Polish Academic R Users’ Meeting, Poznań, Poland, 15-17 October 2014
  • Advanced methods in statistics, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, May - July 2015
  • Effective Assessment of Learning Achievement, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, October – December 2015
  • Workshop on Linear Mixed Modeling in R, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 12-13 February 2016
  • Auditory Processing Disorder as one of the reasons of learning difficulties, The Centre of Education, Diagnosis, Psychological and Pedagogical Therapy, Poznań, 5 April 2016
  • Bangor ERP Summer School, Bangor University, UK, 26 June – 2 July 2016
  • Workshop on “Computational modelling in psycholinguistics” (Prof. Walter van Heuven), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 1 June 2017
  • Workshop on “Current trends in research on emotion processing and cardiovascular reactivity”, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 26 October 2017
  • Workshop on "Interfacing EEG and eyetracking methodology" (Prof. Olaf Dimigen), Center for Translation & Cognition, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germersheim, Germany, 3 July 2019
  • Introduction to Psychometrics, Psychological Test Laboratory of the Polish Psychological Association (Pracownia Testów Psychologicznych Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego), 8-15 February 2021
  • EEG training workshop on "The Biosemi Active Two system in neurocognitive research," Neurostimulus, Poznań, Poland, 25–26 August 2021

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 4th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2014), Poznań, Poland, 4-6 April 2014
  • 4th International Conference “Aspects of Neuroscience”, Warsaw, Poland, 14-16 November 2014
  • Neuronus, Kraków, Poland, 17-19 April 2015
  • 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Paphos, Cyprus, 17-20 September 2015
  • Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models V (UICM), Brussels, Belgium, 24-25 September 2015
  • Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Madrid, Spain, 7-9 October 2015
  • Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP 2016), Bilbao, Spain, 1-3 September 2016
  • Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology (NoSLiP), Trondheim, Norway, 6-7 October 2016
  • 5th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznan (YLMP 2016), Poznań, Poland, 25-27 November 2016 (two talks)
  • 13th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP), Braga, Portugal, 5-8 April 2017 (two papers)
  • Philosophy of Language and Cognition: Revising formal semantic and pragmatic theories from a neurocognitive perspective, Bochum, Germany, 19-20 June 2017
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2017), Poznań, Poland, 18-20 September 2017
  • 6th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznan (YLMP 2018), Poznan, Poland, 23-25 November 2018 (workshop leader)
  • 6th Translation Process Research Workshop (TPRW6), Murcia, Spain, 21-23 January 2019 (presented by Paweł Korpal)
  • 28th Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE) Conference, Poznań, Poland, 27-28 June 2019
  • 2nd International Congress on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, Germersheim, Germany, 4-6 July 2019
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2019), Poznań, Poland, 16-18 September 2019
  • 26th Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, USA (virtual event), 2-6 May 2020
  • Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium, Cracow, Poland (virtual event), 22 September 2020
  • The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Łódź, Poland (virtual event), 3-5 December 2020
  • 7th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznan (YLMP 2021), Poznan, Poland (virtual event), 23-25 April 2021 (plenary speaker)
  • Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), Vilnus, Lithuania (virtual event), 23-26 June 2021
  • Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP 2021), Paris, France (virtual event), 2-4 September 2021 (two papers)
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2021), Poznań, Poland (virtual event), 16-19 September 2021 (presented by Marcin Naranowicz)
  • 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2021), (virtual event), 5–8 October 2021 (presented by Marcin Naranowicz)
  • Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2021 (BMRS 2021), Edinburgh, UK (virtual event), 25–25 October 2021 (presented by Marcin Naranowicz)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 23-26 April 2022 (two papers)
  • European Society for Translation Studies (EST) Congress, Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity, Poznań, Poland, 7-9 October 2022 (two papers)
  • 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Porto, Portugal, 6–9 September 2023 (four papers)

Study visits

  • Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), San Sebastian, Spain, 25-28 October 2022
  • Brain and Cognition Lab (Department of Psychology and Communication), Texas A&M International University, research stay, 16 March – 3 April 2023
  • Brain and Cognition Lab (Department of Psychology and Communication), Texas A&M International University, research stay, 16 October – 6 December 2023
  • Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, February – May 2024

Other talks and presentations

  • The Psycholinguistics Reading Group, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2 June 2014
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 26 September 2014
  • The Psycholinguistics Reading Group, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 3 March 2015
  • The Psycholinguistics Discussion Club, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 15 March 2016
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 30 September 2016
  • The Psycholinguistics Discussion Club, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 28 February 2017 (workshop leader)
  • WA Friday Lunch Talk, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 21 April 2017
  • XXI Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki (Poznań Science and Art Festival), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 25 April 2018 (workshop leader)
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 27 September 2019
  • A series of workshops on EEG for primary school students of International School of Poznań, Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, October 2019
  • A series of workshops on Memory and foreign language learning for high school students of the Boleslaw Chrobry Secondary School in Gniezno, November 2019
  • Konferencja Ogólnopolska: Szkoła jutra - dobre relacje, edukacja językowa, kreatywne metody pracy (National Conference: School of tomorrow – Good relations, language education, creative teaching methods), Poznań, 6-8 March 2020
  • Noc Anglistów, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 26 November 2021
  • Noc Anglistów, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 25 November 2022

Organizer of international conferences

  • Student Volunteer at the Interdisciplinary College (IK) in Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany, 14-21 March 2014
  • 4th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2014), Poznań, Poland, 4-6 April 2014, Assistant to the Organizing Committee
  • 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2014), Poznań, Poland, 11-14 September 2014, Helper
  • 5th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2016), Poznań, Poland, 25-27 November 2016, Member of the Organizing Committee
  • 5th Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN 2017), Poznań, Poland, 25-27 August 2017, Assistant to the Organizing Committee
  • 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2018), Poznań, Poland, 23-25 November 2018, Member of the Organizing Committee
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2019), Poznań, Poland, 16-18 September 2019 (Thematic Session Organizer)
  • 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2021), Poznań, Poland, 23-25 April 2021, Member of the Organizing Committee
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity, Poznań, Poland, 7-9 October 2022, Member of the Organizing Committee
  • 8th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2023), Poznań, Poland, 19-21 May 2023, Member of the Organizing Committee

Honors and awards

  • II Polska Konferencja Eyetrackingowa, 28-29 November 2013, Warsaw, Poland, Award for the most interesting research project with eye-trackers
  • Award of the Head of the Faculty of English of Adam Mickiewicz University for the best M.A. thesis in linguistics, 2014
  • Award for the best oral presentation during the 4th Aspects of Neuroscience, Warsaw, Poland, 14-16 November 2014
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for outstanding PhD students, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for the 30% best PhD students, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2017/2018
  • Travel grant from the Norwegian Graduate Researcher School in Linguistics and Phililogy (LingPhil) to attend Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology (NoSLiP), Trondheim, Norway, 6-7 October 2016
  • Jan Kulczyk scholarship for outstanding research achievements (2016/2017)
  • Santander Universidades scholarship for organizational, academic, and research achievements (July 2017)
  • START - Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) scholarship for outstanding young researchers, 2019/2020
  • AMU Rector's Prize for organizational achievements (2021)
  • Scholarship from the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding young researchers (2022)
  • AMU Rector's Scholarship for outstanding research achievements (2022)
  • AMU Rector's Prize for organizational achievements (2023)

Peer reviewer for

  • Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • International Journal of Applied Linguistics
  • Sexuality and Culture
  • PLOS ONE
  • Onomázein
  • International Journal of Bilingualism
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Intercultural Pragmatics
  • Language and Cognition
  • Language Learning
  • Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
  • Open Linguistics
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Brain & Language
  • International Journal of Multilingualism
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Brain Sciences
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Studies in Polish Linguistics
  • Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission
  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Languages
  • International Journal of Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics Compass

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