Marcin Szwed A

Thalamocortical architecture shapes structural and functional plasticity after early sensory loss

This study examines how early sensory loss affects thalamocortical networks, finding structural and functional changes in visual and auditory systems.

Early sensory deprivation drives local reorganization of sensory integration within a conserved global hierarchy

This study shows early sensory deprivation causes localized reorganization near deprived primary sensory areas while preserving the overall cortical hierarchy.

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals

This study investigates mirror invariance in congenitally blind individuals using fMRI, finding differences in neural processing of tactile objects and Braille letters compared to sighted individuals.

Impact of air pollution on Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density metrics (NODDI) in 10-13-year-old children with and without ADHD diagnosis

This study examines associations between air pollution exposure and white matter microstructure in children with and without ADHD using NODDI, finding no statistically significant results after correction.

Association between Cortical Thickness and Functional Response to Linguistic Processing in the Occipital Cortex of Early Blind Individuals

This study finds a significant association between cortical thickness in occipital regions and functional activation during linguistic processing in early blind individuals.

Visual experience shapes functional connectome gradients

This study compares cortical gradients in congenitally blind and sighted adults to assess the role of genetics and experience in shaping functional connectivity.

Blind individuals' enhanced ability to sense their own heartbeat is related to the thickness of their occipital cortex

This study finds a positive correlation between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and occipital cortical thickness in congenitally blind individuals.

Domain-general and language-specific contributions to speech production in L2: an fMRI study using functional localizers.

This study uses fMRI to compare brain activity during L1 and L2 speech production, finding increased domain-general MD network activity and some language-specific left IFG activation for L2.

Tracking components of bilingual language control in speech production: an fMRI study using functional localizers.

This study uses fMRI to investigate the neural mechanisms of bilingual language control by examining the L2 after-effect in Polish-English bilinguals.

Cardiac interoception is enhanced in blind individuals

This study finds that blind individuals have better accuracy in detecting their heartbeat compared to sighted controls, suggesting enhanced cardiac interoception due to visual deprivation.