Research interests

Magdalena Berkowska is a Ph.D. candidate who joined the MPBLab in October 2005. Her research focuses mainly on the analysis of sung performance in healthy participants and in patients with brain damage. Magdalena works also as research assistant in MPBLab in the context of an International Reintegration grant financed by the European Commission.


Publications 

Berkowska, M., & Dalla Bella, S. (under revision). Acquired and congenital disorders of sung performance.

Berkowska, M., & Dalla Bella, S. (2009). Reducing linguistic information enhances singing proficiency in occasional singers. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 108-111.

Dalla Bella, S., & Berkowska, M. (2009). Singing proficiency in the majority: Normality and “phenotypes” of poor singing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 99-107.

Berkowska, M., Laskowska, I., & Michalak, M. (2004). Zaburzenia w zakresie rozpoznawania muzyki [Music Disorders], Polskie Forum Psychologiczne (Special Issue on Music Cognition and The Brain), 9(1), 74-78.


Research presentations

Berkowska, M., & Dalla Bella, S. (2009). Singing proficiency is associated with our ability to entrain to a beat. Talk, “7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music”, Jyväskylä, (Finland), August 12-16.

Dalla Bella, S., & Berkowska, M. (2009). Selective impairment of musical pitch production in a tone-deaf individual. Talk, “7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music”, Jyväskylä, (Finland), August 12-16.

Berkowska, M., & Dalla Bella, S. (2008). Reducing linguistic information enhances pitch proficiency in occasional singers. Poster, “The Neurosciences and Music III”, Montreal (Canada), June 25-28.

Berkowska, M., & Dalla Bella, S. (2007). A.Z.: A case of a pure vocal tone-deafness. Poster, "Third Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology", Tallin (Estonia), August 15-19.

Berkowska, M., Sowiński, J. & Dalla Bella, S. (2007). A.Z.: A case of purely vocal tone-deafness. Poster, “Warsaw Workshop on Music and The Brain”, Warsaw (Poland), June 21-22.