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Pawel Tacikowski is a cognitive neuroscientist investigating brain mechanisms that underlie human cognition. He uses behavioral experiments, neuroimaging data, scalp electrophysiology, and intracranial neurophysiology. He received his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (Poland) and his M.A. in Psychology from the University of Warsaw (Poland). He was a postdoc at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and an Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA). Currently, he is an Assistant Investigator at Coimbra University. He has published 17 peer-reviewed articles (total times cited: 1325; h-index: 16; source: Google Scholar).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pawel Tacikowski

Citation names

  • Tacikowski, Pawel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D215-159D-60F5
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2434-2112
Google Scholar ID
go8FVF0AAAAJ
Researcher Id
AHD-5518-2022

Email addresses

  • paweltacikowski@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Polish (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2007/10/01 - 2012/08/13
Concluded
 Psychophysiology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Instytut Biologii Doswiadczalnej im Marcelego Nenckiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
"Neural correlates of self-related information processing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002/10/01 - 2007/09/30
Concluded
 Psychology (Master)
Uniwersytet Warszawski Wydzial Psychologii, Poland
"The link between self-efficacy, stress, and blood-glucose-management in type I diabetes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/07/17 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Imagem Biomédica e Investigação Translacional, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2022/02/28 Researcher (Research) University of California Los Angeles Department of Neurosurgery, United States
2012/09/01 - 2018/12/31 Postdoc (Research) Karolinska Institutet Institutionen för neurovetenskap, Sweden
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/07/17 - Current Gender identity and own-body-perception: neurocognitive mechanisms and virtual reality tools for reducing gender stereotypes
2022.03499.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/11/01 - 2020/10/31 Gender identity and body-perception: An experimental approach with a virtual reality body-sex-swap illusion
2018-02237
Principal investigator
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
 Karolinska Institutet
Concluded
2018/03/01 - 2020/02/29 Identifying the neuronal basis of self-concept in the human medial prefrontal and medial temporal brain regions
750955
Post-doc
European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Decoding the plastic self in the human brain
20141009
Principal investigator
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
 Karolinska Institutet
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Neural correlates of self-related information processing in autism spectrum disorders
2010120838
Principal investigator
Instytut Biologii Doswiadczalnej im Marcelego Nenckiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
 Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyzszego
Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2009/12/31 Neural correlates of self-related information processing
20080101
PhD Student Fellow
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyzszego
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Mateusz Wozniak; Mariët van Buuren; Pawel Tacikowski. "Editorial: Self-concept plasticity: behavioral and neural evidence". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/74640598/.
    10.3389/FNHUM.2025.1584910
  2. Pawel Tacikowski; Güldamla Kalender; Davide Ciliberti; Itzhak Fried. "Human hippocampal and entorhinal neurons encode the temporal structure of experience". Nature (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07973-1.
    10.1038/s41586-024-07973-1
  3. Tacikowski, Pawel; Weijs, Marieke L.; Ehrsson, H. Henrik. "Perception of Our Own Body Influences Self-Concept and Self-Incoherence Impairs Episodic Memory". iScience (2020): https://publons.com/publon/36902947/.
    10.1016/J.ISCI.2020.101429
  4. Tacikowski, Pawel; Fust, Jens; Ehrsson, H. Henrik. "Fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change". Scientific Reports (2020): https://publons.com/publon/36904383/.
    10.1038/S41598-020-71467-Z
  5. Tacikowski, P; Freiburghaus, T; Ehrsson, HH. "Goal-directed processing of self-relevant information is associated with less cognitive interference than the processing of information about other people". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2017):
    10.1016/j.jesp.2016.05.007
  6. Tacikowski, P; Berger, CC; Ehrsson, HH. "Dissociating the Neural Basis of Conceptual Self-Awareness from Perceptual Awareness and Unaware Self-Processing". Cerebral Cortex (2017): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28119346.
    10.1093/cercor/bhx004
  7. P. Tacikowski; H.H. Ehrsson. "Preferential processing of self-relevant stimuli occurs mainly at the perceptual and conscious stages of information processing". Consciousness and Cognition 41 (2016): 139-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.013.
    10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.013
  8. Nowicka, A; Cygan, HB; Tacikowski, P; Ostaszewski, P; Kus, R. "Name recognition in autism: EEG evidence of altered patterns of brain activity and connectivity". Molecular Autism (2016): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27602201.
    10.1186/s13229-016-0102-z
  9. Tacikowski, P; Cygan, HB; Nowicka, A. "Neural correlates of own and close-other's name recognition: ERP evidence". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2014): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24772076.
    10.3389/fnhum.2014.00194
  10. Cygan, HB; Tacikowski, P; Ostaszewski, P; Chojnicka, I; Nowicka, A. "Neural correlates of own name and own face detection in autism spectrum disorder". PLoS ONE (2014): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465847.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0086020
  11. Tacikowski, P; Brechmann, A; Nowicka, A. "Cross-modal pattern of brain activations associated with the processing of self- and significant other's name". Human Brain Mapping (2013): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22431327.
    10.1002/hbm.22048
  12. Nowicka, A; Marchewka, A; Jednorog, K; Tacikowski, P; Brechmann, A. "Forgetting of Emotional Information Is Hard: An fMRI Study of Directed Forgetting". Cerebral Cortex (2011): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20584747.
    10.1093/cercor/bhq117
  13. Tacikowski, P; Brechmann, A; Marchewka, A; Jednorog, K; Dobrowolny, M; Nowicka, A. "Is it about the self or the significance? An fMRI study of self-name recognition". Social Neuroscience (2011): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602286.
    10.1080/17470919.2010.490665
  14. Nowicka, A; Tacikowski, P. "Transcallosal transfer of information and functional asymmetry of the human brain". Laterality (2011): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19657954.
    10.1080/13576500903154231
  15. Tacikowski, P; Jednorog, K; Marchewka, A; Nowicka, A. "How multiple repetitions influence the processing of self-, famous and unknown names and faces: An ERP study". International Journal of Psychophysiology (2011): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21035509.
    10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.10.010
  16. Jednorog, K; Marchewka, A; Tacikowski, P; Heim, S; Grabowska, A. "Electrophysiological evidence for the magnocellular-dorsal pathway deficit in dyslexia". Developmental Science (2011): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676106.
    10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01037.x
  17. Tacikowski, P; Nowicka, A. "Allocation of attention to self-name and self-face: An ERP study". Biological Psychology (2010): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20298741.
    10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.03.009
  18. Jednorog, K; Marchewka, A; Tacikowski, P; Grabowska, A. "Implicit phonological and semantic processing in children with developmental dyslexia: Evidence from event-related potentials". Neuropsychologia (2010): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20430041.
    10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.017
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025 Single-neuron mechanisms of temporal structure coding in the human brain
Proaction Lab, University of Coimbra
2024/12 Single-neuron mechanisms of temporal structure coding in the human brain 3rd Annual Meeting of CIBIT
Coimbra University
2023/06/15 'The link between self-concept and own body perception' i_mBODY Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
i_mBODY Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2021/04/06 Neurons in the human medial temporal lobe represent multiple implicit associations between objects in a map-like manner
University College London (London, United Kingdom)
2020/08/19 The link between self-concept and own body perception Polonium Webinar
2018/09/06 Merging of Self-Concept and Friend-Concept During Illusory Ownership of the Friend’s Body Open Self
Technical University Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2017/07/26 Multisensory body illusions and the conceptual self Virtual Reality in Psychology
Marburg University (Marburg, Germany)
2016/05/01 Cognitive neuroscience of self-concept and self-awareness Stockholm Brain Institute
Stockholm Brain Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)
2009/02/04 Is it about the self or the significance? An fMRI study of self-name recognition Australasian Society for Psychophysiology Conference
(Newcastle, Australia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/02/01 - 2025/06/30 Optimizing preprocessing of functional magnetic resonance imaging data
Supervisor
 BSc in Biomedical Engineering
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2022/06/30 Effects of Health At Every Size® strategies on short- versus long-term weight loss in people with overweight and obesity: a systematic review
Supervisor
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2020/10/01 - 2020/12/31 Single-neuron correlates of the Self Reference Effect in memory
Co-supervisor
 Bioengineering (PhD)
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
2017/03/01 - 2017/08/31 How does our body make us who we are? Evidence from the friend-body-swap illusion
Co-supervisor
 Psychology (Master)
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2016/09/01 - 2017/01/08 The body sex-change illusion and the fluidity of gender identity
Co-supervisor
 Medicine (Master)
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2016/01/01 - 2016/06/30 Goal-directed processing of self-relevant information is associated with less cognitive interference than the processing of information about other people
Co-supervisor
 Medicine (Master)
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2015/01/01 - 2015/06/30 How our body makes us who we are? Evidence from body-swap illusions and cognitive psychology of self-concept
Co-supervisor
 Psychology (Master)
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/10/01 - 2024/10/31 Nature
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30 Nature Human Behaviour
2022/06/01 - 2022/06/02 Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
2022/01/01 - 2022/01/02 Scientific Reports
2021/12/01 - 2021/12/02 Current Biology
2021/10/01 - 2021/10/02 NeuroImage
2021/07/01 - 2021/07/02 Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2021/06/01 - 2021/06/02 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2021/06/01 - 2021/06/02 Acta Psychologica
2021/04/01 - 2021/04/02 Current Directions in Psychological Science
2021/03/01 - 2021/03/02 Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
2020/12/01 - 2020/12/02 Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2020/12/01 - 2020/12/02 Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2020/10/01 - 2020/10/02 Acta Neurochirurgia
2020/08/01 - 2020/08/02 Consciousness and Cognition
2018/08/01 - 2018/08/02 Consciousness and Cognition
2018/08/01 - 2018/08/02 Cognition
2017/08/01 - 2017/08/02 Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2016/06/01 - 2016/06/02 Consciousness and Cognition
2015/11/01 - 2015/11/02 Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2015/09/01 - 2015/09/02 Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2015/03/01 - 2015/03/02 Brain Research
2013/07/01 - 2013/07/02 Plos One

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2014/06/01 - Current Society for Neuroscience member
2015/03/01 - 2016/02/29 Karolinska Institute Postdoc Association Chair

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022 - 2023 Consultant for a Stockholm-based tech company "Fictive Reality"
2018/09/01 - 2018/09/02 Consultation of a popular science book

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02/14 - 2025/02/14 An advanced course at the Doctoral Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB), “Neuronal Circuits and Behavior” Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/05/01 - 2023/05/31 Single-neuron studies of the human brain (Master) Uniwersytet Warszawski Wydzial Psychologii, Poland
2022/04/01 - 2023/05/31 The sense of own body awareness from a cognitive neuroscience perspective (Master) Uniwersytet Warszawski Wydzial Psychologii, Poland
2022 - 2023 Virtual Reality in Cognitive Science Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland
2017/04/05 - 2017/04/06 Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop Cognitive Neuroscience (Doktor (PhD)) Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2016/03/03 - 2016/03/10 Lectures about modern topics in cognitive neuroscience Biomedicine (Bachelor) Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2012/10/07 - 2012/10/11 Introduction to fMRI data analysis Psychology (Bachelor) SWPS Uniwersytet Humanistycznospoleczny, Poland

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/10/10 - 2023/11/01 Grant reviewer, Austrian Science Fund
Evaluator
2022/11/01 - 2022/11/30 Reviewer of a large consortium grant
Evaluator
 Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Poland Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
2021/12/01 - 2021/12/31 Reviewer of a grant proposal
Evaluator
 Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024 Interview about my research for Daily Bruin
2024 News release Nature
2024 Press release
2020/10/01 Media interview VICE (USA)
2020/09/07 Media interview NRC (Netherlands)
2020/09/04 Media interview Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
2020/09/03 Media interview ABC (Spain)
2020/09/01 Media interview Independent (UK)
2020/09/01 Media interview FR24news (France)
2012/05/01 Media interview Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland)

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2011/05/01 - 2011/05/02 Polish Radio, Trójka
2011/01/01 - 2011/01/02 Polish Radio, Program Pierwszy

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/03/01 - Current Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Human Behavior, and Frontiers in Psychology

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 A.G.
Distinctions

Award

2023 FCT CEECIND
2017 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship
European Commission, Belgium
2011 Fellowship START for the exceptional young scientists
Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Poland
2011 Jerzy Konorski Award for the best publication of 2011
Polskie Towarzystwo Badan Ukladu Nerwowego, Poland
2009 Award for the best oral presentation
Australasian Society for Psychophysiology, Australia