SCIoI Alumni

Olga Wudarczyk-Markett

Postdoctoral Researcher

Psychology

HU Berlin

   

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Olga Wudarczyk-Markett

Olga Wudarczyk-Markett

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Olga Wudarczyk-Markett was a postdoctoral researcher in SCIoI Project 9 (Multimodal Interaction and Communication). Her research focused on multimodal communication in human-robot interactions using behavioural and neurophysiological approaches. She holds a PhD from RWTH Aachen University, an MSc in Psychological Research from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh.


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Pischedda, D., Lange, A., Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O., Abdel Rahman, R., Hafner, V. V., Kuhlen, A. K., & Haynes, J.-D. (2021). Who is my interlocutor? Partner-specific neural representations during communicative interactions with human or artificial task partners. [Poster]. 5th Virtual Social Interactions (VSI) Conference.
Pischedda, D., Lange, A., Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O., Abdel Rahman, R., Hafner, V. V., Kuhlen, A. K., & Haynes, J.-D. (2021). Am I speaking to a human, a robot, or a computer? Neural representations of task partners in communicative interactions with humans or artificial agents [Poster]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

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