Nina-Alisa Kollakowski
PhD Student
Developmental Psycholgogy
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since 06/2024
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Postdoc in the Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Hamburg |
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09/2019-05/2024
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Doctoral researcher at the Chair of Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology (Prof Markus Paulus), LMU Munich
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| 04/2023-05/2023 | Research stay at the Department of Psychology Department of Psychology (Dr. Maria Filippetti), University of Essex |
| 10/2021-09/2022 | M.Sc. Clinical Psychology and Cognitive NeuroscienceLudwig-Maximilian-Universität München |
| 10/2019-09/2024 |
Doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, LMU Munich
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| 10/2017-08/2019 | M.Sc. Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, LMU Munich, with the thesis „ERP markers of sense of agency in human-robot interaction" |
| 02/2019-08/2019 | Research stay for an external master thesis in the department Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction (Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) |
| 08/2018-09/2018 | Research project at the Chair of Experimental Neurocognitive Psychology (Prof. Simone Schütz-Bosbach), LMU Munich |
| 02/2018-03/2018 | Research project at the Institute for Cognitive Systems (Prof. Gordon Cheng), Technical University Munich |
| 10/2017-02/2019 | Student assistant at the Chair of General and Experimental Psychology (Prof. Hermann Müller) |
| 10/2013-07/2017 | B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, with the thesis "Electrophysiological correlates of left- and right-handedness in a finger tapping task" |
| 04/2015-09/2015 | Research internship at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (Prof. Gregor Schöner), Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 11/2014-07/2017 | Student assistant in the Department of Ergonomics (Prof. Edmund Wascher), Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors Dortmund (IfaDo) |
Research Focus
It is important to recognise and utilise the multitude of regularities that exist in the world. The discovery and use of these regularities plays a pivotal role in the learning process of infants. As part of my current research, I am investigating which regularities infants need in order to learn them and what effects a sudden deviation from these regularities has on their learning. We employ a variety of measurement techniques, including eye tracking and EEG, to record eye movements and brain activity.
I also study the self-perception of infants and young children. The objective is to determine at what age they are able to distinguish themselves from others and which actions they have performed themselves and which they have not.
In addition, I am investigating parent-child interaction, in particular the dynamics of touch between parent and child. The focus here is on the extent to which these contribute to children learning about themselves and their environment.
Conference Proceedings
| 09/2023 | EPSY Berlin, Symposium: Self and other: self-development and the role of caregiver-infant interaction in the first two years of life |
| 08/2023 | LCICD Lancaster, talk: Maternal touch predicts self-development in infants |
| 03/2023 | SRCD Salt Lake City, Poster: The (social) development of self-perception in infancy; Poster: Spatial action-effect binding with spatially incompatible effects in children |
| 09/2022 | Minerva-Genter-Symposium Regensburg, Poster: How do children learn about actions? – From their mothers! |
| 07/2022 | ICIS Ottawa, Poster: Evidence for sense of agency by means of sensory attenuation in 9-month-old infants; Poster: 5-months-old infants prefer spatially congruent view of their own legs: a (partial) replication of Rochat & Morgan (1995) |
| 11/2019 | ICSR, Individual differences in attitude toward robots predict behavior in human-robot interaction |
| 09/2018 | ICDL Epirob Tokio: Drifting perceptual patterns suggest prediction errors fusion rather than hypothesis selection: replicating the rubber-hand illusion on a robot |
Publications
2023
Kollakowski, N.-A., Mammen, M., Paulus M. (2023). What is the implicit self in infancy? A classification and evaluation of current theories on the early self. Cognitive Development, 68, 101394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101394
2021
Liesner, M., Hinz, N.-A., & Kunde, W. (2021). How Action Shapes Body Ownership Momentarily and Throughout the Lifespan. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 697810. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.697810
Hinz, N.-A., Ciardo, F., & Wykowska, A. (2021). ERP markers of action planning and outcome monitoring in human–robot interaction. Acta Psychologica, 212, 103216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103216
2019
Schmitz, J., Packheiser, J., Birnkraut, T., Hinz, N.-A., Friedrich, P., Gu ntu rku n, O., & Ocklenburg, S. (2019). The neurophysiological correlates of handedness: Insights from the lateralized readiness potential. Behavioural Brain Research, 364, 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.02.021
Hinz, N. A., Ciardo, F., & Wykowska, A. (2019, November). Individual differences in attitude toward robots predict behavior in human-robot interaction. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 64-73). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_7
2018
Hinz, N. A., Lanillos, P., Mueller, H., & Cheng, G. (2018, September). Drifting perceptual patterns suggest prediction errors fusion rather than hypothesis selection: replicating the rubber-hand illusion on a robot. In 2018 Joint IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) (pp. 125-132). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DEVLRN.2018.8761005