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General Information
Full Name | Aleksander W. Nitka |
Languages | English, Polish |
Education
- 2015 - 2021
PhD in Experimental Psychology
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- thesis Analysis of Self and Retrieval Generated Priming in Human Recognition Memory.
- BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership
- Behavioural Neuroscience group, School of Psychology
- 2020 - 2021
Postgraduate diploma in Data Science
AGH University of Technology, Kraków, Poland
- final project Eye movement based classification of participants performing the recognition memory task
- 2012 - 2015
BSc (1st Class Hons) in Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Experience
- 2021 -
Postdoctoral Researcher
Consciousness Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
- 2015 - 2019
Freelance Consultant in Science Communication
Self employed
- 2018
Visiting Research Associate
Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, USA
- 2017 - 2018
Coordinator
Behavioural Neuroscience Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
- 2016 - 2017
Consciousness and Experiential Section Representative
Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group
- 2013 - 2015
Voluntary Research Assistant
Centre for Systems Neuroscience, University of Leicester, UK
- 2014
Undergraduate Summer Research Scholar
School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK
Professional Development
- 2022
- DIPY Course
- FSL Course
- 2021
- SPM fMRI/MRI/VBM Course
- 2020
- Neuromatch Academy, Computational Neuroscience Summer School
- 2019
- Mental Health First Aid, MHFA England
- 2017
- PsychoPy Official Workshop, Programming Experiments in Python
- PsychoPy Official Workshop, Building Experiments in PsychoPy
Grants, honours & awards
- 2015
- BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship
- Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
- 2014
- Leicester Award, Peer Assisted Learning, Senior Leader
- 2013
- Action on Hearing Loss Summer Research Scholarship
- 2012
- University of Leicester Undergraduate Scholarship
Teaching
- 2021 - 2022
- Internship Supervisor, Elements of research in psychology, Jagiellonian University
- Tutorials Leader, Cognitive Psychology I, Jagiellonian University
- 2020 - 2021
- English language teacher, Freedom Language School
- 2016 - 2018
- Demonstrator, Practical Methods in Psychology, University of Nottingham
- 2013 - 2015
- Senior Leader, Peer Assisted Learning, University of Leicester
Academic Interests
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Learning and Memory
- Associative account of human recognition memory
- Sometimes Opponent Process (SOP) model of learning and memory
- Computational modelling of behavioural processes
- Behavioural correlates of human memory
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Consciousness and Awareness
- Role of awareness in human learning and memory
- Neural correlates of consciousness
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Interactions between attention, working and long-term memory
- Top-down control of attentional mechanisms
- N2pc ERP component
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Neuroimaing
- Use of multimodal imaging to predict behaviour
- Machine learning in neuroimaging
- Standarisation of analysis methods, Open Science