Dr. Katarzyna Raczy

Academic degrees

July 2019  PhD with Honors, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Dissertation title: „Orthographical and mathematical processing in blind and sighted Braille readers”

February 2015  BSc (Hons), Neurobiology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Dissertation title: “Somatosensory cortex plasticity in humans and animals”

July 2014 MSc (Hons), Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Dissertation title: “The effect of the mood on the working memory processes”

Experience

Since 2019 Post Doc, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology University of Hamburg

2017-2019 Ad hoc Scientific Editor for a publishing company at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Ad hoc fMRI Technician in Małopolskie Centrum Biotechnologii, Kraków, Poland

Teaching Assistant at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

2016 Research Collaborator, Visual Perception Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

2014-2019 Research Assistant, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Czarnecka, M., Rączy, K., Szewczyk, J., Paplińska, M., Jednoróg, K., Marchewka, A., Hesselmann, G., Knops*, A., Szwed*, M. (2023). Overlapping but separate number representations in the intraparietal sulcus—Probing format-and modality-independence in sighted Braille readers. Cortex, 162, 65-80.

Rączy, K., Hölig, C., Guerreiro, M.J.S., Lingareddy, S., Kekunnaya, R., & Röder, B. (2022). Typical resting state activity of the brain requires visual input during an early sensitive period. Brain Communications, 4(4), fcac146.

Rączy, K., Czarnecka, M., Paplińska, M., Hesselmann, G., Knops, A., & Szwed, M. (2020). Tactile to visual number priming in the left intraparietal cortex of sighted Braille readers. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-11.

Rączy, K., Czarnecka, M., Zaremba, D., Paplińska, M., Hesselmann, G., Knops, A., & Szwed, M. (2018). A shared code for Braille and Arabic digits revealed by cross-modal priming in sighted Braille readers. Acta Psychologica, 202, 102960.

Rączy, K., Urbańczyk, A., Korczyk, M., Szewczyk, J., Sumera, E., & Szwed, M. (2018).  Orthographic priming in Braille reading as evidence for task-specific reorganization in the ventral visual cortex of the congenitally blind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(7), 1065-1078.

Rączy, K., Orzechowski, J. (2018). When working memory is in a mood: Combined effects of induced affect and processing of emotional words. Current Psychology, 1-10.

Rączy, K., & Korczyk, M. (2019). Are IQ tests enough to measure intelligence in the blind? Brief review of available and potential methods to estimate intelligence in the blind. Rocznik Kognitywistyczny, 2018(Tom 11), 17-34.

Rączy, K., Skóra, Z., Szul, M. J., & others. (2015). The effect of multi-modal learning in Artificial Grammar Learning Task. Rocznik Kognitywistyczny, 2015(Tom 8), 9198.

Rączy, K., Skóra, Z., Osewski, M. (2011). Heurystyka zakotwiczenia i dopasowania na materiale prezentowanym w postaci listy zwierząt. Rocznik Kognitywistyczny, 5, 183-189.

Teaching Award in the category "modules/concepts" for excellent teaching of "Empirisch-Experimentelles Praktikum und Versuchplanung" (Experimental Psychology) in the winter semester 2021/2022.

Błażej Szymura Prize for the best first-author doctoral publication for the publication published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (October, 2020):

Rączy, K., Urbańczyk, A., Korczyk, M., Szewczyk, J., Sumera, E., & Szwed, M. (2018).  Orthographic priming in Braille reading as evidence for task-specific reorganization in the ventral visual cortex of the congenitally blind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(7), 1065-1078.

Doctoral scholarship, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2018)

Society of the Neurobiology of Language Travel Award, SNL Conference in London, United Kingdom (August, 2016)

“Neuron of the audience” for the best oral presentation during the 5th Aspects of Neuroscience Conference in Warsaw, Poland (November, 2015)

ERASMUS+ Programme Scholarship (May – June, 2016)

DSC Funding for Active Braille from Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (September, 2015)