Bibianna Balaj

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń · Department of Cognitive and Comparative Psychology; Institute of Psychology; Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Both navigation abilities and gait can be affected by the atrophy in the medial temporal cortex. This study aimed to determine whether navigation abilities could differentiate seniors with and without medial temporal lobe atrophy who complained about their cognitive status. The participants, classified to either the medial temporal atrophy group (...

In this study, we aimed to determine the role of visual speech cues in the process of foreign ‎language learning by hearing school-age children. Our experiments used Cued Speech, a method ‎designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. We expected that the principles of the ‎method might also be beneficial for people with normal hearing becau...

Introduction: A previous study conducted in the Gyro-IPT simulator revealed that applied flight scenarios induced minor severity of simulator sickness symptoms in participants. In this study, however, we did not investigate how the severity of symptoms differs between pilots and non-pilots. Therefore, the presented study aimed to examine whether th...

Recreational activity undertaken within urban green spaces (UGS) is an action that could be self-governed and self-regulated by a given person under the pressure of COVID-19. We aimed to identify the factors that induce or reduce the frequency of recreational activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. These factors were explored among two distinct fiel...

Objective: This study investigated the effect of the spatial disorientation (SD) events on an attentive blank stare in the cockpit scene and demonstrated how much the flight task and visual delayed discrimination task were competing for the pilots’ attention. Background: SD in flight is the leading cause of human error-related aircraft accidents i...

We present the Gaze Interaction Markup Language (GIML) and its interpreter, the Gaze-Controlled Application Framework, making the development of personalized gaze-based software available to people with no programming background. This software can be used by caregivers to find new methods of communicating with people who suffer from various physica...

Introduction: To improve the effectiveness of spatial disorientation (SD) training in a flight simulator, pilots are recommended to perform an additional task that induces a mental distraction. The presented study explored how the inclusion of an additional task that may enhance the effectiveness of SD training changes the severity of simulator sic...

Background Subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) are defined as belief of the decline of a cognitive condition compared with an earlier period of functioning. Many studies have shown the relationship between SCCs with objective neuropsychological results as well its dependency on psychological characteristics. Considering the complex nature of SCC...

A decline in the Spatial Navigation (SN) abilities has been observed in the course of healthy aging. Walking is an inseparable part of the navigation process; however, research tasks overlook this aspect in studies involving seniors. The present study was designed to overcome this limitation by recording gait parameters during natural environment n...

Neural complexity is thought to be associated with efficient information processing but the exact nature of this relation remains unclear. Here, the relationship of fluid intelligence (gf) with the resting‐state EEG (rsEEG) complexity over different timescales and different electrodes was investigated. A 6‐min rsEEG blocks of eyes open were analyze...

Chronic stress is the main cause of health problems in high-risk jobs. Wearable sensors can become an ecologically valid method of stress level assessment in real-life applications. We sought to determine a non-invasive technique for objective stress monitoring. Data were collected from firefighters during 24-h shifts using sensor belts equipped wi...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether pilots and non-pilots differ in their susceptibility to spatial disorientation (SD) during a flight in various disorienting scenarios, and in coping with SD. Background: Pilot selection is relevant in assessing pilots’ susceptibility to SD. However, SD-related accidents indicate that it may not be...

The Gaze Interaction Markup Language (GIML) is presented, which is new language for designing the gaze-controlled application and psychological experiments (also by non-programmers).

Spatial disorientation (SD) poses a serious threat to flight safety. A pilot’s gaze behaviour that characterizes his/her visual perception and attention determines success in dealing with this phenomenon. Regardless of a pilot’s experience or proficiency, sensory illusions can lead to differences between instrument indications and what the pilot “f...

INTRODUCTION: Working memory is an essential executive function for flying an aircraft and its limitations may jeopardize flight safety. This function is particularly critical when pilots have to struggle with spatial disorientation (SD) cues. This research aimed to assess the combined effect of the auditory N -back task (NBT) and simulator-induced...

Psychological essentialism is a widely studied concept within the social sciences, including the field of psychology. However, this concept has not been empirically explored when applied to perception of places. In this paper, we show that the essentialism vs. anti-essentialism philosophical controversy underlies the discussion carried out in human...

Two examples of muli-level explanations of brain activity are provided. First study is aimed at extraction of information from EEG to recognize which brain regions are active using spectral fingerprinting. It is based on forward and inverse modeling of electric potentials measured by sensors placed on the scalp, and computing power spectra from dif...

The auditory system is not as heavily involved in the pilot’s spatial orientation as the visual and vestibular systems; however, it plays a significant role in the cockpit for communication and warning information. The aim of this research was to investigate the combined effect of selective auditory attention and simulator-induced spatial disorient...

INTRODUCTION: A visual stimulus change detection is an extremely important pilot’s cognitive process. This is especially true when pilot errors caused by perceptual failures have a negative effect on his/her spatial orientation. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of the change detection flicker task (CDFT) on pilots’ response to...

The experiment concerned the impact of the catalogue description, experienced in various ways (reading a text or listening to audio material before seeing a picture; listening to audio material whilst looking at the picture; one group was devoid of any context information), on evaluation of the 21st century abstract and figurative paintings. The ex...

The issue of pictorial or propositional nature of imagery remains unresolved. To take a step forward into the debate, we conducted a systematic evaluation of time and accuracy of mental scaling in sighted people. Participants viewed or touched three-dimensional objects and then had to imagine them in a resized version, depending on a given scale. B...

Objective: The aim of this study was to test the effects of visual and vestibular spatial disorientation on the cognitive performance of military aviators while they were piloting a flight simulator. Background: Spatial disorientation (SD), the inability to correctly determine the position and orientation of the aircraft in relation to the ground,...

Several methods of gaze control of video playback were implemented in MovEye application. Two versions of MovEye are almost ready: for watching online movies from the YouTube service and for watching movies from the files stored on local drives. We have two goals: the social one is to help people with physical disabilities to control and enrich the...

Several methods of gaze control of video playback were implemented in MovEye application. Two versions of MovEye are almost ready: for watching online movies from the YouTube service and for watching movies from the files stored on local drives. We have two goals: the social one is to help people with physical disabilities to control and enrich the...

The current pilot study investigated the effect of stress on autonomic nervous system functioning quantified by heart rate variability (HRV) among firefighters (N = 26) on duty. Data were collected during 24-hour shifts, using sensor belts equipped with a dry-lead electrocardiograph (ECG) and a three-axial accelerometer. Additionally, evaluation of...

Information technology becomes important part of the current state of the art within health sciences. It allows to gather and analyze biomedical signals and data sets in the more efficient way, and provide better insight into evidences due to metabases and decision support systems based on computational intelligence. Social changes, development of...

Przedmiotem artykułu jest badanie percepcji estetycznej obrazów figuratywnych i abstrakcyjnych, których oglądanie poprzedzało bądź nie zapoznanie się z informacją katalogową przez laików i ekspertów. Tło teoretyczne badań stanowiła koncepcja uwzględniająca postrzeganie dzieła malarskiego z perspektywy formy, treści i aksjologii. Uzyskane wyniki sug...

Neurological early and long-term rehabilitation plays a crucial role in the therapy of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) such as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or minimally conscious state. Neuroscience tries to explain the effect of music therapy on all levels of the nervous system = activity in patients with DOC, but full understa...

Comparative analysis of the data obtained with a headset eye tracker while driving a motor vehicle (e.g. plane or car) is subject to numerous errors and approximations. It is due to the movements of pilot’s or driver’s head in relation to fi xed elements of a cockpit of a motor vehicle, and - in case of a simulator – to fi xed elements located outs...

The neural mechanisms underlying the vection illusion are not fully understood. A few studies have analyzed visually evoked potentials or event-related potentials (ERPs) when participants were exposed to vection-inducing stimulation. However, none of them tested how such stimulation influences the brain activity during performance of the simultaneo...

Teamwork, interprofessional practice and learning are integral to current interdisciplinary research and health care - such approach can maximize professional resources and optimize outcomes. The development of modern technologies associated with medical sciences, and the variability of possible neurological deficits, interventions, and even scales...

Cognitive robots constitute a highly interdisciplinary approach to the issue of therapy of children with developmental disorders. Cognitive robots become more popular, especially in action and language integration areas, joining the experience of psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and even engineers. The concept of a robot as a cognitive...

Introduction: Comparative analysis of the data obtained with a headset eye tracker while driving a motor vehicle (e.g. plane or car) is subject to numerous errors and approximations. It is due to the movements of pilot's or driver's head in relation to fixed elements of a cockpit of a motor vehicle, and-in case of a simulator – to fixed elements lo...

Cel: Głównymi wyzwaniami okresu adolescencji są: ukształtowanie własnej tożsamości, pozytywnej samooceny (również w aspekcie własnego ciała) oraz intensywny rozwój relacji społecznych. Celem prezentowanego artykułu jest przedstawienie zależności pomiędzy wskaźnikiem wagowo-wzrostowym (BMI), który stanowi bezpośredni korelat obrazu ciała, a kompeten...

To date, research on oculomotor predictors of the correctness of in-fl ight maneuvers depending on pilot’s expertise was never conducted in relation to situations involving the risk of spatial disorientation. This article describes the developed testing method that facilitates the assessment of oculomotor activity upon spatial disorientation caused...

Mikołajewska Emilia, Komendziński Tomasz, Dreszer Joanna, Bałaj Bibianna, Mikołajewski Dariusz. Role of toys in the development of healthy infants. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(4):219-223. ISSN 2391-8306. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16845 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%284%29%3A219-223 https://pbn.nauka.gov.p...

Mikołajewska Emilia, Komendziński Tomasz, Dreszer Joanna, Bałaj Bibianna, Mikołajewski Dariusz. Role of toys in the development and rehabilitation of children with developmental disorders. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(4):224-228. ISSN 2391-8306. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16864 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%...

Purpose: Currently there is no direct method available to automatically distinguish between emotions by realtime computational analysis and stabilize emotional state of the subject using series of standarized pictures or others stimuli. The aim of this study was to find out whether is true if our new concept of intelligent emotions stabilization sy...

Background: Human physiological system belongs to the most complex systems which elements has been described in detail using different mathematical models. Due to high complexity of elements, the design of whole physiological system depends on the goal of investigations. We would like to concentrate our efforts on emotions influence to physiologica...

The scientific objective of the study was to identify factors modifying the eye movements observed during the performance of mental rotation tasks. On the one hand, differences were sought in indicators concerning eye movements between the phases of the perception of an object in the original and rotated positions; on the other hand, the study test...

The scientific objective of the study was to identify factors modifying the eye movements observed during the performance of mental rotation tasks. On the one hand, differences were sought in indicators concerning eye movements between the phases of the perception of an object in the original and rotated positions; on the other hand, the study test...

Information technology becomes important part of the current state of the art within health sciences. It allows to gather and analyze biomedical signals and data sets in the more efficient way, and provide better insight into evidences due to metabases and decision support systems based on computational intelligence. Social changes, development of...

Teamwork, interprofessional practice and learning are integral to current interdisciplinary research and health care-such approach can maximize professional resources and optimize outcomes. The development of modern technologies associated with medical sciences, and the variability of possible neurological deficits, interventions, and even scales m...

Sokolov Oleksandr, Meszyński Sebastian, Weber Piotr, Mikołajewski Dariusz, Dreszer Joanna, Bałaj Bibianna, Grzelak Sławomir, Duch Włodzisław, Komendziński Tomasz. Multiagent modeling of emotions influence on physiological systems: new concept = Modelowanie wieloagentowe wpływu emocji na układy fizjologiczne: nowa koncepcja. Journal of Education, He...

This paper addresses the problem of designing closed-loop control of emotion based on affective measures and computing. The work is focused on design rule base control system that serves for positive emotion state stabilization. The proposed approach is based on analyzing of breathing signal. The measured signal is analyzed according to features im...

Abstract The huge complexity and variety of deficits in children, their continuous development, and co-operation simultaneously with children and their parents make clinical practice in pediatric neurorehabilitation particularly challenging. Thus scientists and clinicians still look for newer, more efficient diagnostic and therapeutic tools. One of...

Aesthetic perception of art is a subjective matter, different from the usual perception of the object. Often, lack of knowledge of the context and understanding of certain forms of communication leads to difficulties in receiving the work, especially if it is an abstract painting. Help in the perception of painting can be provided by the informatio...

STRESZCZENIE: Podczas wyobrażania sobie obiektów osoby spontanicznie poruszają oczami. Ruchy oczu wykonywane podczas wizualizacji obiektów wykazują podobieństwo do ruchów oczu podczas ich oglądania. Wykazano również funkcjonalność ruchów oczu występujących podczas wyobrażania obiektów. Celem badania była weryfikacja hipotez dotyczących podobieństwa...

Podczas wyobrażania sobie obiektów osoby spontanicznie poruszają oczami. Ruchy oczu wykonywane podczas wizualizacji obiektów wykazują podobieństwo do ruchów oczu podczas ich oglądania. Wykazano również funkcjonalność ruchów oczu występujących podczas wyobrażania obiektów. Celem badania była weryfikacja hipotez dotyczących podobieństwa między rucham...

Aesthetic evaluation of photographs through the stereotype of author’s mental disability Magdalena Szubielska, Bibianna Bałaj, Agnieszka Fudali-Czyż Department of Experimental Psychology The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Abstract The present experiment examined the impact of knowledge about author’s mental disability, on the aesthetic...

People with physical disabilities experience difficulties in controlling various devices, including PC. Overcoming communication barriers is a significant step towards self-determination and active interaction with the environment. This article presents a case study of application and the comparison of the efficiency of eye movements and head movem...

Interfejsy mózg-komputer (Brain-Computer Interface – BCI) umożliwiają zamianę sygnału mózgowego na sygnał cyfrowy, który wysyłany jest do różnego rodzaju urządzeń pozwalających sterować aplikacjami komputerowymi oraz sprzętem elektronicznym (np. pilot wózka inwalidzkiego) bez udziału mięśni. Artykuł prezentuje podstawowe zagadnienia związane z prob...

Artykuł zawiera przegląd badań nad skaningiem wyobrażeniowym w kontekście zapisu ruchów oczu rozpoczyna się wprowadzeniem do tematyki pomiaru ruchów oczu w świetle teorii Notona i Starka (1971a, 1971b, 1971c). Zwrócono szczególną uwagę na oddolne i odgórne mechanizmy uwagowe sterujące wzrokiem podczas oglądania sceny wizualnej. Następnie przedstawi...