Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw

PhD studies

Thesis: Developmental trajectories of visual attention in parent-infant interactions in typically developing infants and infants at elevated likelihood of ASD

Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw

Master of Science in Psychology

Thesis: In search of supra-individual measures of turn-taking coordination in dialogue

Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw

Bachelor in Cultural Studies

López Pérez, D., Tomalski, P., Radkowska, A. Selective changes in complexity of visual scanning for social stimuli in infancy. Frontiers in Psychology (in review).

López Pérez, D., Tomalski, P., RadkowskaA., Ballieux, H., andMoore, D.G. (2020). Efficiency of scanning and attention to faces in infancy independently predict language development in a multi-ethnic and bilingual sample of 2-year-olds, First Language, November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723720966815

López Pérez, D., Radkowska, A.,Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., i Tomalski, P. (2018). Beyond Fixation Durations: Recurrence Quantification Analysis Reveals Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Infant Visual Scanning. Journal of Vision18 (5). https://doi.org/10.1167/18.13.5

López Pérez, D., Leonardi, G., Niedźwiecka, A., Radkowska, A., Raczaszek-Leonardi, J. i Tomalski, P. (2017). Combining Recurrence Analysis and Automatic Movement Extraction from Video Recordings to Study Behavioural Coupling in Face-to-Face Parent-Child Interactions, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8, nr 2228, 1-14.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02228

Nomikou, I., Leonardi, G., Radkowska, A.,Rączaszek-Leonardi, J. i Rohlfing, K., (2017). Taking up an active role: Emerging participation in early mother-infant interaction during peek-aboo routines. Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8, nr 1656.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01656

Zubek, J., Denkiewicz, M., Dębska, A., Radkowska, A., Komorowska-Mach J., Litwin, P., Stępień, M., Kucińska, A., Sitarska, E., Komorowska, K., Fusaroli, R., Tylen, K., Rączaszek-Leonardi, J. (2016). Performance of language-coordinated collective systems: A study of wine recognition and description. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01321

López Pérez, D., Radkowska A., Ballieux, H., Deirdre B., Moore, D.G. & Tomalski, P. Efficiency of scanning in infancy in the presence and absence of faces differentially predicts expressive and receptive language in toddlers. International Congress of Infant Studies, virtual congress, 6-9.07.2020.

Radkowska, A., Niedzwiecka, A., Ramotowska, S., Malinowska, A., Kawa, R., Pisula, E. & Tomalski, P. Dyadic Visual Attention during Interactions of Infant Siblings and Their Parents in Relation to the Child’s Attention Disengagement and Clinical Symptoms. International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Rotterdam (Holland), 9-12.05.2018.

Radkowska, A., Ramotowska, S., Malinowska, A. & Tomalski, P. Sensory processing in 10-month-olds have predicted their visual attention engagement during parent-infant interactions at 14 months. International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia (USA), 30.06.-3.07.2018.

Zubek J., Radkowska, A., Dębska, A., Denkiewicz, M. & Rączaszek-Leonardi, J. Language as a coordinative tool in wine recognition and description: influences from two time-scales. 2nd Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, Lublin (Poland), 20-22.06.2016.

Decoupling of Motor, Visual and Vocal Activity during Dyadic Social Interactions
Research grant Sonata BIS, National Science Center
PI: Przemysław Tomalski, PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences

PhD position

• Preparing research procedures, overseeing collection of data and data analyses of parent-infant interactions with mobile sensors, head cameras and microphones
• Conducting experimental sessions in Lab utilizing mobile sensors
• Preparing procedures and conduct home sessions with infants
  utilizing mobile sensors and head cameras
• Adaptation of Early Motor Questionnaire (Libertus & Landa, 2013)
• Analysis of parent-infant coordination in interactions
• Collection of day-long audio recordings at the age of 2 with the use of wearable devices
• Coordination of international cooperation with research team working on algorithms for automatic annotation of infant vocalizations
• Statistical analysis of longitudinal data collected in the project
• Authored and co-authored conference presentations and research papers
• Provide guidance and support for undergraduate and master’s thesis research projects

Early semantic development: Linking language development to emerging participation in social events
Polish-German research grant BEETHOVEN, National Science Center & German Research Foundation
PIs: Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, Ph.D., University of Warsaw; Katharina Rohfling, Ph.D., Paderborn University

PhD position

• Coded parent-infant interactions (4-12 months) in Elan
• Coded infant vocalizations in Praat
• Trained students for coding behavioral data, coordinated and supervised their work
• Assisted in planning research and analyses of data
• Conducted statistical analyses on coordination of infant vocalizations and parental speech
• Authored and co-authored conference presentations and research papers
• Organized Project Meetings and Conference

Neurocognitive Development Lab , BabyLAB UW, University of Warsaw, Department of Psychology
Supervisor: Przemysław Tomalski, Ph.D.

Research assistant

• Conducted experimental sessions with infants
• Coded parent-infant interactions (5-24 months) in Observer XT
• Co-developed coding scheme, conducted reliability checks between coders
• Trained students for coding behavioral data, coordinated and supervised their work
• Conducted statistical analyses on visual attention from parent-infant interactions
• Authored and co-authored conference presentations and research papers
• Provide guidance and support for undergraduate and master’s thesis research projects

Developmental Psychology, University of Warsaw, Department of Psychology

30 hours workshop, 2 groups of students

Developmental Psychology, University of Warsaw, Department of Psychology

30 hours workshop, 3 groups of students

Introduction to Psychology, University of Warsaw, Department of Applied Linguistics

30 hours course, 1 group of students

The University’s Integrated Development Programme Scholarship for increasing international mobility of students

Science Scholarship at the University of Warsaw, Year: 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2020/2021

Visual attention and touch in interactions of hearing infants with deaf mothers

PhD Students Research Fund, University of Warsaw

Training MPlus courses, Falcon Training, 2-days course

• Latent Growth Curve Modelling using MPlus
• Multilevel Modeling using MPlus

SEM with MPlus course, Cambridge (UK), 1-week course

• Path analysis, Factor analysis, Multiple Group Analysis
• SEM with longitudinal data, auto-regressive models, latent growth curve models, group based-trajectory modelling

Finding Structure in Time, workshop at the International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia (USA), 1 day course

• Introduction to methods such as: RQA, CRQA, Granger Causality

Summer Statistical School, The University’s Integrated Development Programme, University of Warsaw, 10 days course

• Regression, path analysis, mediation and moderation, CFA, EFA, SEM

Multilevel Modelling in R, 30h academic course

• Fixed and random effects models, cross-level interactions, models for longitudinal data

Recurrence Quantification Analysis in R, 30h academic course

• Introduction to categorical and continuous RQA and CRQA

Dynamical methods of time series analysis, 1-day course, Brainview ITN workshop, Warsaw

• Introduction to RQA and CRQA