Paweł Tacikowski, PhD
(Postdoctoral Fellow)

Research

Paweł Tacikowski’s research at the Brain, Body, and Self Laboratory (BBS Lab) was centered on the neural correlates of processing self-related information, such as one's own name and face, and its relationship to the sense of bodily self. He was particularly interested in the differences and similarities between neural representations of 'self' and 'other', as well as how the multisensory perception of one's own body influences self-concept. Paweł was as a postdoctoral researcher at the BBS Lab from 2013 to 2023, with an interlude from 2020 to 2022 for a Marie Curie fellowship in Itzhak Fried's group at UCLA, USA, where he studied self-concept at the single-neuron level using electrophysiological recordings in neurological patients. Upon completing his postdoctoral tenures in our lab and Itzhak Fried’s lab, Dr. Tacikowski was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Sample Publications

Tacikowski, P., Fust J, Ehrsson HH. Fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change. Scientific Reports (2020);10(1):14385. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71467-z. PDF

Tacikowski, P., Weijs M, Ehrsson HH. Perception of Our Own Body Influences Self-Concept and Self-Incoherence Impairs Episodic Memory. iScience, 26 August 2020. PDF

Tacikowski, P., Berger, C. C. & Ehrsson, H. H. (2017). Dissociating the Neural Basis of Conceptual Self-awareness from Perceptual Awareness and Unaware Self-processing. Cerebral Cortex. Epub ahead of print. PDF

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 (2016) 68:93-100. PDF

Tacikowski, P. & Ehrsson HH. Preferential processing of self-relevant stimuli occurs mainly at the perceptual and conscious stages of information processing. Consciousness and Cognition (2016) 41:139-49. PDF

Tacikowski, P., Brechmann, A., & Nowicka, A. (in press). Cross-modal pattern of brain activations associated with the processing of self- and significant other's name. Human Brain Mapping, doi: 10.1002/hbm.22048. PDF

Tacikowski, P., Brechmann, A., Jednorog, K., Marchewka, A., Dobrowolny, M., & Nowicka, A. (2011). Is it about the self or the significance? An fMRI study of self-name recognition. Social Neuroscience, 6(1), 98-107. PDF

Tacikowski, P., Brechmann, A., Jednorog, K., Marchewka, A., Dobrowolny, M., & Nowicka, A. (2011). How multiple repetitions influence the processing of own, famous and unknown names and faces: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 79, 219-230. PDF

Tacikowski, P., & Nowicka, A. (2010). Allocation of attention to self-name and self-face: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 84, 318-324. PDF

Contact

Paweł Tacikowski, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet, Biomedicum
Solnavägen 9, 171 65 Solna, Sweden

email: pawel.tacikowski @ ki.se