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Aleksandra Mroczko

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Deutschordenstraße 46
D-60528 Frankfurt/Main

Tel.: +49(0)6996769-736
Fax: +49(0)6996769-327
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Curriculum Vitae

since June 2007 Ph.D. project
Thesis:
The Unity of Consciousness and Phenomenon of Synaesthesia

Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Department of Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Metzinger
PhD scholarship from Barbara-Wengeler-Foundation

Max Planck-Institute for Brain Research,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Second Supervisor: Prof. Wolf Singer
Neurophysiology Department, Research group of Dr. Danko Nikolic
June 2005 The University of Szczecin, Poland
Master's thesis: Color Qualia in the Philosophy of Mind
Supervisor: Prof. Max Urchs

October 2003 - August 2004 The University of Konstanz, Germany
Department of Philosophy
Studies in philosophy, specialization: cognitive science
Scholarship from the European Program Socrates/Erasmus
October 2000 - June 2005 The University of Szczecin, Poland
Department of Humanities
Studies in philosophy and politics
Studentship by the University of Szczecin

Conference Presentations, Invited Lectures, Summer Schools, other Programs:

•The General Doctoral Studies Program at Mainz University: Summer 2007 – Autumn 2008

• The 4th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the UK Synaesthesia Association, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, March 29-30, 2008 - Oral presentation: "Immediate Transfer of Synaesthetic Concurrents to Novel Inducers".

• The Institute for Medical Psychology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, FFM, April 21, 2008 - Invited talk: “Die prompte Übertragung von synästhetischen Farbempfindungen auf die neuen graphemischen Induktoren“.

• The 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, the Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 19-22, 2008 - Poster presentation: „The Role of Semantic Representations in Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia”.

• The workshop of the Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Ringberg Castle conference site of the Max Planck Society, August 31 – September 3, 2008 – Research report from the study on synaesthesia.

• MPI for Brain Research In-house Symposium, FFM, September 24, 2008 – Oral presentation: "Transfer of Synaesthetic Concurrents to Novel Inducers".

• The 9th International Conference of the German Association for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Dresden KogWis’08, 28.09-01.10.2008 – Oral presentation in Doctoral Symposium: "Synaesthesia and the Unity of Consciousness”.

• The 10th Mind Meeting – the conference of the interdisciplinary young researchers’ group MIND organized by Prof. Thomas Metzinger, Berlin, November 20-22, 2008 – Oral presentation: “Immediate Transfer of Synesthesia”.

• International Synaesthesia Congress, Granada, Spain, April 26-29, 2009 - Poster presentation: “Acquisition of Synesthetic Experience by a Novel Inducer”.

• Summer University “Memory and Mind: Learning and Representing Structures in the Brain” CEU University, Budapest, Hungary, June 21-27, 2009.

• The Hessian Mentoring Program for women in science, June 2009 – June 2011.

• The 32nd International Neuroscience Conference of the Japan Neuroscience Society, Nagoya Congress Center, Japan, September 16-18, 2009 – Poster presentation: “Transfer of Synesthetic Experience”.

• NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness, Okazaki Conference Center, Aichi, Japan, September 19-20, 2009 – Poster presentation: “Multiplicity in Unity: the Unity of Consciousness and Synesthesia”.

• MPI for Brain Research In-house Symposium, FFM, November 17, 2009 – Poster presentation: "Immediate Transfer of Synesthesia to a Novel Inducer".

Publications:

Mroczko, A., Metzinger, T., Singer, W., & Nikolić, D. (2009)
Immediate transfer of synesthesia to a novel inducer.
Journal of Vision, 9(12):25, 1-8, http://journalofvision.org/9/12/25/, doi:10.1167/9.12.25.

Translation: (2009; together with A. Niedźwieńska i J. Neckar). Thomas Metzinger: What Psychologists Can Learn from the Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. In A. Niedźwieńska i J. Neckar (ed.) Poznaj samego siebie, czyli o źródłach samowiedzy. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Academica.



jochen heym, 01-12-2009