Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group

I am interested in the EEG/ERPs recording and analysis methods.
Currently I am concentrating my efforts on: control of attention and working memory from a neuropsychological approach, testing predictions from brain models using EEG and ERP measures. Of special interest are ERP measures of the mismatch negativity (MMN), the P3 family of components (P3a, P3b) and EEG measures.
My studies involve a set of inter-related research issues:
modelling and analysis of physiological signals, source analysis of EEG/MEG data, statistical evaluation of distributed source solutions obtained from EEG/MEG, analysis of EEG recordings from epileptic patients.

Degrees

PhD (2004): K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciencies, Poznan, Poland ¨Automatic analysis of the brain bioelectrical activity in children and adolescents with epilepsy¨

M.Sc. (Medical Physics) (1998): A. Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland, ¨Auditory event related evoked potentials (P300) in children and adoñescents, methods of recording and analysis¨

Selected Publications

1.Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz, Barbara Gurda, Rafal Nowak, Magdalena Bartkowiak:
Clinical utility of long-term video-EEG monitoring in diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
Now. Lek. 1997 66,2:154-159.

2.Malgorzta Zgorzalewicz, Rafal Nowak, Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz:
Neurophysiological study in children and adolescents with epilepsy receiving lamotrigine,
New Trends in Epileptology. Ed. by Jerzy Majkowski, Krzysztof Owczarek,
Piotr Zwolinski. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, 1998,123-127.

3.Malgorzta Zgorzalewicz, Rafal Nowak, Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz:
Auditory event related potentials in epileptic children and adolescents,
New developments in child neurology. Ed.: Milivoj Velickovic Perat.
Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, 1998,515-523.

4.Malgorzata Zgorzalewicz, Rafal Nowak:
P300 event-related potential in epileptic children and adolescents.
Neurol. Neurochir. Pol., 2000,34,1:109-118.

5.Rafal Nowak, Malgorzata Zgorzalewicz:
The use of EEG dipole modeling in epilepsy seizure localisation.
Neur. Neuroch. Pol., 2000,34,1:101-108.

6.Barbara Gurda, Rafal Nowak, Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz:
Utility of video-EEG monitoring in diagnosis of epileptic syndromes in childhood,
Neur. Neuroch. Pol, 2000,34,77-87.

7. Malgorzata Zgorzalewicz, Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz, Rafal Nowak
Analysis of the measurement methods of endogenous, cognitive P300 potential in school children and adolescents”.
Folia Neurophatologica 2001,39,3-8.

8. Malgorzata Zgorzalewicz, Dariusz Kilarski, Rafal Nowak
Somatosensory evoked potentials in children and adolescent during stimulation of the median nerve. Anthropological measurement - part I. Prz. Lek. 2003,60,28-33.

9. Rafal Nowak, Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz
Long-term monitoring of cerebral bioelectric activity in the diagnostics of epilepsy,
Probl. Ter. Monit. 2002,13,185-192.

10. Malgorzata Zgorzalewicz, Bozena Galas-Zgorzalewicz, Rafal Nowak
International Book Chapter: Cognitive potentials to visual and auditory discrimination tasks in children and adolescents. In N.C. Moore & K. Arikan (Eds.), Brainwaves and mind: Recent developments, Kjellberg: Wheaton, IL. USA. 2004,59-64.