Katarzyna Raczy
Cognitive Neuroscientist, interested in neuroplasticity after permanent and transient congenital visual deprivation 🧠 Neural mechanisms of tactile reading 👆 and numerical cognition 🔢
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczySymposia submissions for #IMRF2026 in Genoa are now open! 🎉 Submit your proposal by 7 February 2026 via the conference website: imrf2026.sciencesconf.org We look forward to receiving your contributions!!
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyFirst half of the story 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy#eNeuro | Korczyk, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, and Szwed found brain activity linked to reading expertise may be repurposed in blind people doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0002…
- Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the 24th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2026)! 📍 Genova, Italy 🗓️ June 24–27, 2026 More details coming soon — stay tuned! We can’t wait to see you in Genova! 🇮🇹
- Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details: tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt #CognitiveNeuroscience
- Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyExcited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
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- What a fantastic time at IMRF! 🎉 Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyIt's a wrap! We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczySymposia 3 and 4: what blindness reveals about brain organisation (Raczy, Stroh) and metacognition in mutlisensory decision-making (Noppeney) are on now. Such interesting topics and talks! 🤩 #IMRF2025
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyToday @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyIMRF folks, we are ready for you! We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am). Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow Your organising team imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyGot any job openings/PhD positions in your #multisensory research labs? Let us know by tagging us - we are happy to share it with the community
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyNew to IMRF? Or just not sure what to do on the evening before the conference? 🙌 Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends! Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕 maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyHow does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyThere is still ~2 weeks time to sign up for one of our exciting pre-conference methods workshops: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
- As part of this year's conference, we are excited to offer three amazing methods workshops run *by* and *for* the multisensory community: Focusing on behavioural, neural, and computational methods🕹️🧠📈 More information and the sign-up link can be found here imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyHow is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyIf you use PsychoPy we would be very grateful for 5-15 mins of your time to complete this survey 🙏🏼
- 📣 Seeking participants for a short survey 2 years on from our first survey we’re keen to know if the community has changed at all. Whether or not you participated last time, please take a few minutes, whatever your background, to help us understand our community🙏 run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...
- Reposted by Katarzyna Raczy🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyHappy Friday Multisensory pals, the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... ✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyNew paper! We show written word-selective ventral occipito-temporal region, the superior temporal sulcus, and orofacial sensorimotor regions encode phonological information from auditory and visual speech, but with multisensory abstraction only in STS and SM. 💬 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyPhonological representations of auditory & visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... "studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but their location and nature remain unclear" so an fMRI study
- Very much looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues and to sharing some great ideas! 🤩🧠
- Hi pals, our preliminary conference schedule + symposium schedule are online imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Also, this year we are planning some exciting pre-conf methods-focused workshops! More details and info how to sign up will be added soon imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyExcited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work
- The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyAfter 16 hours on the Stockholm-Berlin train, arrived just in time for #MindBrainBody! Excited to present our poster on "The influence of finger-extending exoskeletons on tactile and proprioceptive localization" during Poster Session D (16:10-16:55, D06).
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- 📢📢 Check out our new preprint on the functional connectome in congenitally blind individuals 🧠⬇️⬇️
- Preprint alert! 🚨 Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... co-led by @cemalkoba.bsky.social and me, together with Joan Falco-Roget, @olicolli.bsky.social, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, Marina Bedny, Mengyu Tian, and Marcin Szwed
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyPreprint alert! 🚨 Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... co-led by @cemalkoba.bsky.social and me, together with Joan Falco-Roget, @olicolli.bsky.social, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, Marina Bedny, Mengyu Tian, and Marcin Szwed
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczySymposium Announcement! 🧠✨ @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and I are organizing a symposium for the @imrf.bsky.social, focusing on neuroplasticity in blindness. We’ve lined up some fantastic speakers and still have one slot available! If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you!
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyThe brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social et al.; "The blind do indeed 'see' with SSDs." [SSDs = sensory substitution devices] #neuroscience
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyHappy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
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- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyAbstract Art **Hey, get a signed print of one of my comics: bit.ly/mind-print
- Reposted by Katarzyna RaczyImageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Mirror-invariant object recognition is not exclusively visual: check out our new study in blind and blindfolded sighted individuals just published in #SciReports with Maks Korczyk and Marcin Szwed! 🥳 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵below ⬇️
- Mirror-invariance enables recognition of mirrored objects as identical. It, however, interferes with reading acquisition as mirror-letters, such as 'b' and 'd' are different orthographic units. Mirror-invariance for letters has to be thus 'broken' to enable efficient reading.
- Here, we were able to mostly replicate the results of the De Heering and colleagues (2018), and again demonstrate that congenitally blind individuals break mirror-invariance for Braille letters, as sighted individuals do for mirrored Latin letters.
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View full threadMoreover, we were able to show that mirror-invariance phenomenon extends to touch, as sighted blindfolded individuals were able to efficiently, haptically judge the shape of the 3D familiar objects despite their mirror orientation.
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