Anna Karczmarczyk, PhD

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Vice-Director of the Institute
Assistant Professor

Research Interests

My research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to bodily self-awareness and its disturbances, early forms of social cognition, and attachment theory. I am interested in integrating philosophical and psychological perspectives on how we experience our bodies and our sense of self in relation to others, as well as how interpersonal interactions shape the emotional tone of bodily awareness. I also explore the developmental origins of emotions and interoception in relation to attachment, especially their influence on emotional regulation.


Selected Publications

  • Karczmarczyk, A. (2025). Embodied Beginnings: Touch as a Developmental Foundation of Self-Awareness. AVANT (in press).
  • Karczmarczyk, A. (2024). Bodily Self-Awareness from a Developmental Perspective. Nicolaus Copernicus University Press. (Originally published in Polish as Samoświadomość cielesna w perspektywie rozwojowej.)

Full list of publications on: Omega

Projects and Grants

  1. Member of the INTERMINDS Lab, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, NCU (2025).
  2. Member of the research group “Emerging Research Field: Culture, Development, and Well-Being,” IDUB NCU (2024–25).
  3. Principal Investigator of the project Reading & Mind-reading contest „Nauka dla Społeczeństwa”, Minister of Education and Science, 2024).
  4. Scientific Supervisor of the Grants4NCUStudents project “The relation between interoceptive awareness and susceptibility to full-body illusion” (2024).
  5. Member of the research group “Emerging Research Field: Perception, Cognition and Language,” IDUB NCU (2021–23).

Academic Activities

  1. Co-organizer of the conference Perspectives on Child Development: Social Learning and Interaction (UMK, Toruń, 19–21 June 2025)
  2. Main organizer of the conference Neuromania (UMK, Toruń, 13–14 September 2024)
  3. Co-organizer of the conference Perspective Taking and Mental Rotation (UMK & University of Hong Kong, Toruń, 6–8 May 2024)
  4. Co-organizer of Brain Awareness Week (BAW) (2025, 2024, 2023)
  5. Reviewer for academic journals: Roczniki Filozoficzne and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
  6. Co-founder of the academic journal AVANT.
  7. Academic Supervisor of the Toruń Cognitive Science Student Association.
  8. Member of the Polish Cognitive Science Society.

Contact

Email: a.karczmarczyk[@]umk.pl
Office: Room 214, Institute of Psychology Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina 39, 87-100 Toruń, Poland