Position: assistant professor

Institute: Institute of Special Education

Unit : Department of Education for the Visually Impaired and Research in the Education and Rehabilitation of Individuals with Visual Impairments

Contact

E-mail: mpaplinska[at]aps.edu.pl

Phone: 22 589-36-00 wew. 3505

Main research areas

• Braille teaching methodology, specifics of tactile reading, tactile perception; equalization of educational opportunities for visually impaired students - comprehensive diagnosis and support and adaptation of the environment and teaching materials - Polish and foreign standards; communication and information competences of adolescents with visual impairment; use of educational assistive technologies in the education and communication of people with visual impairments;

Publications, conferences, events

• Knowledge Base

Biography

• Academic career:

  PhD, The Maria Grzegorzewska University; dissertation with distinction;

  MA, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, fields of study: Special Education,  specialization: Education of Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals;

  Postgraduate: The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Supporting the Development of Blind Visually Impaired Children, including those with Complex Disabilities;

  Publications:

  Czarnecka M., Rączy K., Szewczyk J., Paplińska M., Jednoróg K., Marchewka A., Hesselmann G., Knops A., Szwed M. (2023)  Overlapping but separate number representations in the intraparietal sulcus—Probing format- and modality-independence in sighted Braille readers, Cortex, Volume 162, 2023, Pages 65-80, ISSN 0010-9452

  Matuszewski J., Kossowski B., Bola Ł., Banaszkiewicz A., Paplińska M., Gyger L., Kherif F., Szwed M., Frackowiak R. S., Jednoróg K., Draganski B., Marchewka A. (2021). Brain plasticity dynamics during tactile Braille learning in sighted subjects: Multi-contrast MRI approach. NeuroImage, vol. 227, 1-13, 117613, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117613 

  Paplińska M., Walkiewicz-Krutak M. (red.). (2017). Tyflopedagogika wobec współczesnych potrzeb wspomagania rozwoju, rehabilitacji i aktywizacji społecznej. [Typhlopedagogy in view of contemporary needs to support development, rehabilitation and social activation] Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej.

  Siuda-Krzywicka K., Bola Ł., Paplińska M., Sumera E., Jednoróg K., Marchewka A., Śliwińska M., Amedi A., Szwed M. (2016). Massive cortical reorganization in sighted Braille readers. eLife, 2016;5:e10762, 1-26, doi: 10.7554/eLife.10762

  Bola Ł., Siuda-Krzywicka K., Paplińska M., Sumera E., Hańczur P., Szwed M. (2016). Braille in the sighted: Teaching tactile reading to sighted adults. PLOS ONE, nr 11 (5), 1-13, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155394

  
  Research projects:

  The time course of neuronal plasticity underlying learning in humans–a longitudinal neuroimaging study. Principal investigator: dr hab. A. Marchewka, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS; M. Paplińska (co-investigators in the project, 2019- currently). Financing institute: National Science Center Poland, grant no: 2018/30/E/HS6/00206

  Touching numbers. Investigating the neural representation of numbers in dual visual/Braille alphabet readers. Principal investigator: dr hab. M. Szwed, Jagiellonian University; M. Paplińska (co-investigators in the project, 2017-2020). Financing institute: National Science Center Poland, grant no: 2016/21/B/HS6/03703

  Information literacy skills of blind and visually impaired students. Principal investigator:   Paplińska (2017-2018). Financing institute: The Maria Grzegorzewska University, project no: BSTP 12/17-I

  Assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired students for their education and rehabilitation - current state and prospects for the future Principal investigator:    Paplińska (2015-2016). Financing institute: The Maria Grzegorzewska University, project no: BSTP 20/15-I

  Is sensory processing confined to dedicated brain modules, such as the visual and somatosensory cortices? Challenging the canonical view of brain function with MRI in sighted Braille readers. Principal investigator: dr M. Szwed, Jagiellonian University; M. Paplińska (co-investigators in the project and research participant, 2012-2014). Financing institute: National Science Centre Poland, grant no: 2012/05/E/HS6/03538