Ryszard Auksztulewicz

Dr. rer. nat.

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
University College London

R.Auksztulewicz (at) ucl.ac.uk
+44 20 3448 4359
twitter: @auksz

I am interested in neural mechanisms of attention, prediction, and awareness. Currently I work in the group of Karl Friston at University College London, testing the predictive coding account of attention and expectation. I use Dynamic Causal Modelling for MEG data to provide empirical evidence linking predictive coding, a formal description of message passing between cortical areas, to specific neuronal populations at different stages of auditory processing.

Previously, in my doctoral work in the group of Felix Blankenburg at FU/MPI Berlin, I was investigating the neural mechanisms underlying somatosensory processing. In a series of studies on awareness, working memory, and decision making I combined techniques from neurophysiology and neuroimaging (EEG, TMS, fMRI) with computational modelling. Before that, I completed my MSc at the University of Amsterdam with Steven Scholte, in the group of Victor Lamme, where I worked on feedforward processing in the visual system using EEG and fMRI. I also hold an MA in Clinical Psychology (with a minor in Philosophy) completed at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Please find my full CV here.

You can also find me at ResearchGate, Academia, Mendeley, GoogleScholar, and Frontiers.

Publications

Auksztulewicz, R., Friston, K. (2015). Attentional Enhancement of Auditory Mismatch Responses: a DCM/MEG Study. Cerebral Cortex, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu323. read

Auksztulewicz, R., Blankenburg, F. (2013). Subjective rating of weak tactile stimuli is parametrically encoded in event-related potentials. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(29):11878-87. read

Auksztulewicz, R., Spitzer, B., Blankenburg, F. (2012). Recurrent neural processing and somatosensory awareness. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(3), 799-805. read

Auksztulewicz, R., Spitzer, B., Goltz, D., Blankenburg, F. (2011). Impairing Somatosensory Working Memory using rTMS. European Journal of Neuroscience, 34(5), 839-44. read

Philiastides, M., Auksztulewicz, R., Heekeren, H., Blankenburg, F. (2011). Causal Role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Human Perceptual Decision Making. Current Biology, 21(11), 980-3. read

Sanders, L.*, Auksztulewicz, R.*, Busch, N., Sterzer, P. (2014). The influence of ongoing brain oscillations on apparent motion perception. Neuroimage, 102(2), 241-8. *shared first authorship read

Spitzer, B., Goltz, D., Wacker, E., Auksztulewicz, R., Blankenburg, F. (2013). Maintenance and manipulation of somatosensory information in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, doi: 10.1002/hbm.22337. read

Upcoming talks and conferences

Mar 11-15, 2015. Berlin/Munich workshop on predictive coding, Venice, Italy

May 11-13, 2015. SPM M/EEG course, London, UK

Sept 8-11, 2015. Mismatch Negativity conference, Leipzig, Germany