Joanna Dreszer

Nicolaus Copernicus University | umk · Neurocognitive Laboratory, Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, & Faculty of Humanities,

Generations of researchers have sought a link between features of an artistic image and the audience's experience. However, a direct link between the properties of an image and the responses evoked has still not been established. Given the importance of shape to human perception and artistic creation, it can be assumed that one of the most importan...

Introduction Exploring gender differences in cognitive abilities offers vital insights into human brain functioning. Methods Our study utilized advanced techniques like magnetic resonance thermometry, standard working memory n-back tasks, and functional MRI to investigate if gender-based variations in brain temperature correlate with distinct neur...

Exploring gender differences in cognitive abilities offers vital insights into human brain functioning. Our study utilized advanced techniques like magnetic resonance thermometry, standard working memory n-back tasks, and functional MRI to investigate if gender-based variations in brain temperature correlate with distinct neuronal responses and wor...

Speech understanding, watching a movie, listening to music etc., requires perception of the temporal order of at least two incoming events. A history of performing these tasks may be reflected in spontaneous brain activity. Here, we examined the relationship between the complexity (temporal dynamics) of resting‑state EEG (rsEEG) signal, assessed us...

Background The study aimed to determine how the resting-state EEG (rsEEG) complexity changes both over time and space (channels). The complexity of rsEEG and its sex/gender differences were examined using the multivariate Multiscale Entropy ( mMSE ) in 95 healthy adults. Following the probability maps (Giacometti et al. in J Neurosci Methods 229:84...

Background The study aimed to determine the resting-state EEG (rsEEG) dynamics quantified using the multivariate Multiscale Entropy (mMSE), and the sex/gender (s/g) differences in the mMSE features. The rsEEG was acquired from 95 healthy adults. For each channel set the AUC, that represents the total complexity, the MaxSlope and AvgEnt referring to...

The study aimed to determine the relationship between the millisecond timing, measured by visual temporal order threshold (TOT), i.e. a minimum gap between two successive stimuli necessary to judge a before-after relation, and resting-state fMRI functional connectivity (rsFC). We assume that the TOT reflects a relatively stable feature of local int...

We present the Gaze Interaction Markup Language (GIML) and its interpreter, the Gaze-Controlled Application Framework, making the development of personalized gaze-based software available to people with no programming background. This software can be used by caregivers to find new methods of communicating with people who suffer from various physica...

Background One of the goals of neuropsychology is to understand the brain mechanisms underlying aspects of attention and cognitive control. Several tasks have been developed as a part of this body of research, however their results are not always consistent. A reliable comparison of the data and a synthesis of study conclusions has been precluded b...

CelCelem badania pilotażowego było sprawdzenie zależności pomiędzy rozdzielczością czasową w zakresie milisekundowym, pamięcią roboczą oraz inteligencją psychometryczną z uwzględnieniem analizy jakościowej błędów w Teście Matryc Ravena w wersji dla Zaawansowanych TMZ. MetodaTrzydzieści sześć osób (24 mężczyzn i 12 kobiet, w wieku 17–19 lat) wykonał...

Spectral fingerprints (SFs) are unique power spectra signatures of human brain regions of interest (ROIs, Keitel & Gross, 2016). SFs allow for accurate ROI identification and can serve as biomarkers of differences exhibited by non-neurotypical groups. At present, there are no open-source, versatile tools to calculate spectral fingerprints. We have...

Here we attempted to define the relationship between: EEG activity, personality and coping during lockdown. We were in a unique situation since the COVID-19 outbreak interrupted our independent longitudinal study. We already collected a significant amount of data before lockdown. During lockdown, a subgroup of participants willingly continued their...

A decline in the Spatial Navigation (SN) abilities has been observed in the course of healthy aging. Walking is an inseparable part of the navigation process; however, research tasks overlook this aspect in studies involving seniors. The present study was designed to overcome this limitation by recording gait parameters during natural environment n...

Neural complexity is thought to be associated with efficient information processing but the exact nature of this relation remains unclear. Here, the relationship of fluid intelligence (gf) with the resting‐state EEG (rsEEG) complexity over different timescales and different electrodes was investigated. A 6‐min rsEEG blocks of eyes open were analyze...

Chronic stress is the main cause of health problems in high-risk jobs. Wearable sensors can become an ecologically valid method of stress level assessment in real-life applications. We sought to determine a non-invasive technique for objective stress monitoring. Data were collected from firefighters during 24-h shifts using sensor belts equipped wi...

The Gaze Interaction Markup Language (GIML) is presented, which is new language for designing the gaze-controlled application and psychological experiments (also by non-programmers).

Resting-state microstates are considered as good model of resting state networks observed in fMRI. The main advantage of imaging networks using EEG microstates is higher temporal resolution, which gives opportunity to investigate networks’ dynamic. The most interesting is microstate C because of its correlations with fluid intelligence (Gf). Moreov...

Two examples of muli-level explanations of brain activity are provided. First study is aimed at extraction of information from EEG to recognize which brain regions are active using spectral fingerprinting. It is based on forward and inverse modeling of electric potentials measured by sensors placed on the scalp, and computing power spectra from dif...

The current pilot study investigated the effect of stress on autonomic nervous system functioning quantified by heart rate variability (HRV) among firefighters (N = 26) on duty. Data were collected during 24-hour shifts, using sensor belts equipped with a dry-lead electrocardiograph (ECG) and a three-axial accelerometer. Additionally, evaluation of...

The aims of our study were: (1) to examine changes in the whole-brain functional network under increased cognitive demands of working memory during an n-back task, and their relationship with behavioral outcomes; and (2) to provide a comprehensive description of local changes that may be involved in the formation of the global workspace, using hub...

Information technology becomes important part of the current state of the art within health sciences. It allows to gather and analyze biomedical signals and data sets in the more efficient way, and provide better insight into evidences due to metabases and decision support systems based on computational intelligence. Social changes, development of...

Neurological early and long-term rehabilitation plays a crucial role in the therapy of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) such as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or minimally conscious state. Neuroscience tries to explain the effect of music therapy on all levels of the nervous system = activity in patients with DOC, but full understa...

Teamwork, interprofessional practice and learning are integral to current interdisciplinary research and health care - such approach can maximize professional resources and optimize outcomes. The development of modern technologies associated with medical sciences, and the variability of possible neurological deficits, interventions, and even scales...

Cognitive robots constitute a highly interdisciplinary approach to the issue of therapy of children with developmental disorders. Cognitive robots become more popular, especially in action and language integration areas, joining the experience of psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and even engineers. The concept of a robot as a cognitive...

Recent demographic prognoses show tendencies toward a significant increase in the number of elderly people, especially in developed countries. This makes geriatric therapy, rehabilitation, and care difficult, especially with maintaining as long as possible the highest quality of life and independence in activities of daily living. Lack of specializ...

Mikołajewska Emilia, Komendziński Tomasz, Dreszer Joanna, Bałaj Bibianna, Mikołajewski Dariusz. Role of toys in the development of healthy infants. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(4):219-223. ISSN 2391-8306. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16845 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%284%29%3A219-223 https://pbn.nauka.gov.p...

Mikołajewska Emilia, Komendziński Tomasz, Dreszer Joanna, Bałaj Bibianna, Mikołajewski Dariusz. Role of toys in the development and rehabilitation of children with developmental disorders. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(4):224-228. ISSN 2391-8306. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16864 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%...

Purpose: Currently there is no direct method available to automatically distinguish between emotions by realtime computational analysis and stabilize emotional state of the subject using series of standarized pictures or others stimuli. The aim of this study was to find out whether is true if our new concept of intelligent emotions stabilization sy...

Sokolov Oleksandr, Dobosz Krzysztof, Dreszer Joanna, Duch Włodzisław, Grzelak Sławomir, Komendziński Tomasz, Mikołajewski Dariusz, Piotrowski Tomasz, Świerkocka Małgorzata, Weber Piotr. Spirometry Data Analysis and Monitoring in Medical and Physiological Tests. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(3):35-46. ISSN 2391-8306. DOI: 10.5281/ze...

Background: Human physiological system belongs to the most complex systems which elements has been described in detail using different mathematical models. Due to high complexity of elements, the design of whole physiological system depends on the goal of investigations. We would like to concentrate our efforts on emotions influence to physiologica...

Information technology becomes important part of the current state of the art within health sciences. It allows to gather and analyze biomedical signals and data sets in the more efficient way, and provide better insight into evidences due to metabases and decision support systems based on computational intelligence. Social changes, development of...

Teamwork, interprofessional practice and learning are integral to current interdisciplinary research and health care-such approach can maximize professional resources and optimize outcomes. The development of modern technologies associated with medical sciences, and the variability of possible neurological deficits, interventions, and even scales m...

Sokolov Oleksandr, Meszyński Sebastian, Weber Piotr, Mikołajewski Dariusz, Dreszer Joanna, Bałaj Bibianna, Grzelak Sławomir, Duch Włodzisław, Komendziński Tomasz. Multiagent modeling of emotions influence on physiological systems: new concept = Modelowanie wieloagentowe wpływu emocji na układy fizjologiczne: nowa koncepcja. Journal of Education, He...

This paper addresses the problem of designing closed-loop control of emotion based on affective measures and computing. The work is focused on design rule base control system that serves for positive emotion state stabilization. The proposed approach is based on analyzing of breathing signal. The measured signal is analyzed according to features im...

This study examined the relationship between types of overexcitability (OEs), Big Five dimensions, and giftedness. A sample of intellectually gifted adolescents (N = 132) and controls (N = 103) completed the OEQ-II and the NEO-FFI. As hypothesized, the gifted scored higher than controls on intellectual OE, imaginational OE, and openness to experien...

Recent demographic prognoses show tendencies toward a significant increase in the number of elderly people, especially in developed countries. This makes geriatric therapy, rehabilitation, and care difficult, especially with maintaining as long as possible the highest quality of life and independence in activities of daily living. Lack of specializ...

Abstract The huge complexity and variety of deficits in children, their continuous development, and co-operation simultaneously with children and their parents make clinical practice in pediatric neurorehabilitation particularly challenging. Thus scientists and clinicians still look for newer, more efficient diagnostic and therapeutic tools. One of...

Visualization of scientifi c information extends the possibility to explore how the science is organized and change over time. Particularly classifi ed data include a great potential of discovering the structure and dynamics of specifi ed domain. The authors applied tested and previously presented conception of ACM CCS (Computing Classification Sy...

Neuroscience evidence has suggested that intelligence might be defined as a system ability to dynamic adaptation to changes in environment. According to this thesis, the most important dimension shared by all adaptation levels is time, conceptualized as temporal structure appearing in human behavior. Personal tempo (PT) can be considered as a promi...

This chapter reviews existing studies on neural representation of time and timing processes. New findings in clinical neuropsychology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, electrophysiology, and psychophysics are presented to explain how the temporal information is processed within our brains. The literature data are illustrated with results of o...

Temporal information processing seems to be more related to the general intelligence level than classical measures of mental speed. A large body of experimental evidence has suggested that the rate of brain ‘clock’ systems determines temporal aspects of information processing (e.g. perception, speech or working memory, or motor activity). Timing co...

The aim of the present study was to determine whether simple visual signs (shapes) located on the plane reveal the effect of prototypicality. The research used seven-year-old children's drawings produced from a set of simple line sign stimuli: semicircle, perpendiculars, a straight line, a diagonal, and a wavy line. The stimulus set was rotated on...