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Aleksandra Mroczko

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

Tel.: +49(0)6996769-209
Fax: +49(0)6996769-327
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Curriculum Vitae

2000-2005
Studies in philosophy and politics at the University of Szczecin (Poland), studentship by the University of Szczecin
2003 International language and culture summer school at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, grant-aided by DAAD
2003-2004 Studies in philosophy, specialization: cognitive science, Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz (Germany), scholarship by the European Program Socrates/Erasmus
2005 Magister paper on: Color qualia in the philosophy of mind (supervisor: Prof. Max Urchs) and Magister exam in philosophy at the University of Szczecin, passed with distinction
since june 2007 Ph.D. project:
• at the University of Mainz, Fakulty of Philosophy, supervisor: Prof. Thomas Metzinger, research grant by the Barbara-Wengeler-Stiftung
• at the Department for Neurophysiology (Prof. Wolf Singer, second supervisor), research group of Dr. Danko Nikolic, Max Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main
Topic:
Synaesthesia and the unity of consciousness.

Conference Presentations, Invited Lectures:

The workshop of the Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Ringberg Castle conference site of the Max Planck Society, 31.08-03.09. 2008 – Research report from the study on synaesthesia.

MPI for Brain Research Internal Symposium, FFM, September 24, 2008 – Oral presentation: "Fast 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 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”.


petra janson, 27-10-2008