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Katarzyna Chyl, Ph.D.
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About me:
Education
2015-now: Nencki Institute, Laboratory of Language Neurobiology
2009-2015: College of Inter-Area Individual Studies In the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Warsaw
- MA, psychology (2015)
- BA, Italian studies (2015)
Honors & awards
- Doctoral scholarship ETIUDA, National Science Center, 2019
- Best PhD student grant, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018
- Best I, II, III, V year PhD student, Nencki Institute, 2015-2019
Scientific collaborations
2019-now: prof. Milene Bonte, Maastricht Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
2015-now: prof. Kenneth Pugh, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Research interests:
Typical and atypical reading development, brain basis of language, neuroimaging.
Selected publications:
Chyl, K., Kossowski, B., Wang, S., Dębska, A., Łuniewska, M., Marchewka, A., Wypych, M., van den Bunt, M., Mencl, W., Pugh, K., Jednoróg, K. (2019). Universal brain signature of emerging reading in two contrasting languages. BioRxiv.
Chyl, K., Dębska, A., Kossowski, B., Łuniewska, M., Marchewka, A., Pugh, K., Jednoróg, K. (2019). Reading Acquisition in children: developmental processes and dyslexia specific effects. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Chyl, K., Kossowski, B., Dębska, A., Łuniewska, M., Banaszkiewicz, A., Żelechowska, A., Frost, S.J., Mencl, W.E., Wypych, M., Marchewka, A., Pugh, K., Jednoróg, K. (2018). Prereader to beginning reader: changes induced by reading acquisition in print and speech brain networks. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 59(1):76-87.
Funding:
- (2015-now) National Science Centre (PhD Student, MAESTRO: Searching for mechanisms of dyslexia: a multidimensional study of cognitive deficits and their neural underpinnings, 2014/14/A/HS6/00294, Nencki Institute)
- (2015-2018) National Science Centre (Principal Investigator, PRELUDIUM: Differences and similarities in the organization of neuronal language network in Polish and American beginning readers typically developing and at risk for dyslexia, 2014/13/N/HS6/03515, Nencki Institute)
- (2014-2015) Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Research Assistant, DIAMENTOWY GRANT: Vocabulary size and organization of the mental lexicon in TD children and children under the risk of SLI, 0046/DIA/2013/42, University of Warsaw)
- (2013-2016) National Science Centre (Research Assistant, SONATA: Decoding dyslexia - functional organization of letter-speech sound association in children at risk of developmental dyslexia, 2011/03/D/HS6/05584, Nencki Institute)