Research interests

Anita Białuńska is a Ph.D. student who has been working in the MPB Lab from the very beginning. Her research interests concern the relationships between perception and action, sensorimotor synchronization and music cognition, with a particular interest in rhythm perception and production. Anita exploits various techniques from the behavioral study of healthy individual and experts to the study of neurological deficits and electrophysiology (ERP).

Anita is currently investigating the dissociation between music and language in sensorimotor synchronization. She is also engaged in research projects conducted in the Laboratory of Psychophysiology under the supervision of Prof. Piotr Jaśkowski. Anita’s research is funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (project title: The role of masking in subliminal motor priming).


Publications

Białuńska, A., Dalla Bella, S., & Sowiński, J. (under revision). Why movement is captured by music, less by speech. 

Białuńska, A., Dalla Bella, S., & Jaśkowski, P. (in press). Increasing stimulus intensity reduces reaction time, but does not affect sensorimotor synchronization. Psychological Research.

Jaśkowski, P., Białuńska, A., Tomanek, M., Verleger, R. (2007). Mask- and distractor-triggered inhibitory processes in the priming of motor responses: An EEG study. Psychophysiology

Published abstracts

Białuńska, A., & Dalla Bella, S. (2007). Music disrupts pressure force more than speech during sensorimotor synchronization. Proceedings of the Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), 86.

Dalla Bella, S., & Białuńska, A. (2007). Movement is more strongly attracted to music than to speech. Supplement of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 150-151.

Białuńska, A., Jaśkowski, P., & Dalla Bella, S. (2006). Changing the pacing stimulus intensity does not affect sensorimotor synchronization. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 426-427.

Dalla Bella, S., Białuńska, A., & Sowiński, J. (2006). Captured by music, less by speech. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 235.

Białuńska, A., Jaśkowski, P., & Dalla Bella, S. (2005). Effect of stimulus intensity on sensorimotor synchronization. Proceedings XXXIInd Scientific Congress of Polish Psychology Association, 147.

Research presentations

Białuńska, A., Dalla Bella, S., & Sowiński, J. (2009). Why movement is captured by music, less by speech? Oral presentation, 40th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno (Poland), 2-5 September.

Białuńska, A., Dalla Bella, S. (2007). Music disrupts pressure force more than speech during sensorimotor synchronization. Poster, “Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)”, Montreal (Canada), July 30-August 3

Białuńska, A., Dalla Bella, S.(2007). Movement is more strongly attracted to music than to speech. Poster,  “Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society”, New York (USA)

Dalla Bella, S., Białuńska, A., & Sowiński, J. (2006). Captured by music, less by speech. Oral presentation, “9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition”, Bologna (Italy), August 22-26. 

Białuńska, A., Dalla Bella, S., & Jaśkowski, P. (2006). Changing stimulus intensity does not affect sensorimotor synchronization. Poster, “9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition”, Bologna (Italy), August 22-26.

Białuńska, A., Jaśkowski, P., & Dalla Bella, S. (2005). Effect of stimulus intensity on sensorimotor synchronization. Poster, "XXXIInd Scientific Congress of Polish Psychology Association", Cracow (Poland), September 22-25.