I am a neuropsychologist fascinated by social cognition: How do we interact with others? What makes people “click”? My special area of interest is autism in adulthood and the unique strengths and difficulties related to it. I employ a range of methods, including behavioral studies, physiological measures (pupillometry), and neuroimaging (EEG). For more about my research and activities, visit my personal website: lenamatyjek.com or view my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4546-6480.
Areas of interest and expertise
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Social Cognition
- Neurodiversity
- EEG/ERP
- Pupillometry
Contact
E-Mail: magdalena.matyjek@hu-berlin.de
CV
2023 – 2025 – Postdoctoral researcher and DAAD PRIME Fellow at Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction, Humboldt-Universita ̈t zu Berlin, Germany
2024 – Visiting postdoctoral researcher at Social Cognition Lab, ICN, University College London, UK
2023 – Visiting postdoctoral researcher at Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, US
2022 – 2023 – Visiting postdoctoral researcher at Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
2021 – 2023 – Postdoctoral researcher and MSCA-EUTOPIA-SIF Fellow at Multisensory Research Group, Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2016 –2022 – Ph.D. in Psychology; Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction group, Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-Universita ̈t zu Berlin, Germany
2013 – 2015 – M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
2010 – 2013 – B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Publications
(* = shared first authorship)
2024
Matyjek, M., Kita, S., Torralba Cuello, M., & Soto Faraco, S. (2024; preprint), Multisensory Integration of Naturalistic Speech and Gestures in Autistic Adults. MedRxiv.
Matyjek, M., Kita, S., Torralba Cuello, M., & Soto Faraco, S. (2024), Multisensory Integration of Naturalistic Speech and Gestures in Autistic Adults. Human Brain Mapping, 45:e26797. (Open Access) Also preprint available at: PsychArxiv.
Matyjek, M., Bast, N., & Soto Faraco, S. (2024; [preprint]; [in review]), Preference for Social Motion in Autistic Adults. MedRxiv.
2023
Matyjek, M., Bayer, M., & Dziobek, I. (2023). Reward Responsiveness across Autism and Autistic Traits – Evidence from Neuronal, Autonomic, and Behavioural Levels. NeuroImage: Clinical, 38, 103442 (Open Access). Alsopreprint available at: medRxiv
2022
Naumann, S.*, Matyjek, M.*, Bögl, K.*, Scholar Minds, & Dziobek, I. (2022), Doctoral researchers’ mental health and PhD training satisfaction during the German COVID-19 lockdown: results from an international research sample. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 1-15 (Open Access). Also preprint available at PsyArXiv.
Matyjek, M. (2022), Social and Non-Social Reward Processing in Autism and Autistic Traits. [Doctoral dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin], edoc-server: Open-Access-Publikationsserver der Humboldt-Universität.
Schneider, J., Matyjek, M, Weigand, A., Dziobek, I., and Brick, T. R., (2022), Subjective and objective difficulty of emotional facial expression perception from dynamic stimuli. PLOS ONE, 17(6): e0269156 (Open Access).
2021
Matyjek, M., Bayer, M., & Dziobek, I. (2021), Pupillary Responses to Faces are Modulated by Familiarity and Rewarding Context. Brain Sciences, 11, 794. (Open Access)
Matyjek, M., Kroczek, B., Senderecka, M. (2021), Socially Induced Negative Affective Knowledge Modulates Early Face Perception, but not Gaze-Cued Attention. Psychophysiology, 00:e13876. (Open Access)
Senderecka, M., Matyjek, M., Kroczek, B., & Ociepka, M. (2021), Socially induced negative emotions elicit neural activity in the mentalizing network in a subsequent inhibitory task. Neuroscience. (Open access)
2020
Matyjek, M., Bayer, M., & Dziobek, I. (2020), Autistic Traits Affect Reward Anticipation but not Reception. Scientific Reports 10, 8396. (Open Access)
Matyjek, M.*, Meliss, S.*, Dziobek, I., & Murayama, K. (2020), A Multidimensional View on Social and Non-social Rewards. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 818. (Open Access) Also preprint available at: 10.31219/osf.io/gjfr5📖
2018
Senderecka, M., Ociepka, M., Matyjek, M., & Kroczek, B. (2018), Post-Error Brain Activity Correlates with Incidental Memory for Negative Words. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 178.