Presentations

Conference talks

Matyjek, M. (2025, July). ”Responsiveness to social and non-social rewards in autism and autistic traits.” World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP), Krakow, Poland. Part of ”Individual differences in cognitive control: A neurophysiological perspective” symposium (dr M. Senderecka).

Matyjek M, Kita S, Torralba Cuello, Soto Faraco, (2024, May). Multisensory integration of naturalistic speech stimuli in autistic and non-autistic adults. ESCAN 2024, Ghent, Belgium.

Matyjek M (2022, July). Social and non-social reward processing in autism and autistic traits. ESCAN 2022, Vienna, Austria.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Gawronska S., Dziobek, I. (2021, March). Brain Responses to Rewards Across the Autism Spectrum. 1st Digital Scientific Conference Autism Spectrum (WTAS), Germany.

Matyjek M (2019, November). Reward Responsiveness in autistic Traits. Talk at the First official European Congress on Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment of EACLIPT, Dresden, Germany.

Matyjek M (2019, May). Early and Late Anticipation of Rewards Across Autistic Traits. Talk at Hengstberger Symposium: Social Interaction, Heidelberg, Germany.

Matyjek M (2018, October). How does the brain “like” rewards? Talk at Science Polish Perspectives 2018 Berlin, Germany.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Dziobek, I. (2018, April). The Role of Autistic Traits in Reward Anticipation. Talk at NEURONUS 2018 IBRO Neuroscience Forum, Krakow, Poland.

Invited talks:

Matyjek, M. (2025, April). ”Neuroscience and neurodiversity of Autism Spectrum Disorder”, at The World of Autism conference in Tirana, Albania (organised by the Albanian Children Foundation and the Knights of Malta).

Matyjek, M. (2024, July). ”Multisensory integration of naturalistic speech in autism”, at seminars of the Developmental Diversity Group and the Visual Communication Group at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University College London, UK.

Matyjek, M. (2024, April). ”How do the brains of autistic and non-autistic adults integrate audio and visual informatino in speech?” Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain.

Matyjek M (2023, June). “Autism and reward processing”. Porto Affective Neuroscience Seminars 2023 at the Universidade de Porto, Portugal, online (by invitation of Prof. Fernando Ferreira-Santos).

Matyjek M (2021, April). “Affect in face processing: so fast, so complex, so fundamental”. Group seminar at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain online (by invitation of Dr. Alejandro Galvez Pol).

Conference posters (selected)

Matyjek M, Dziobek, I., Hamilton, A., Wheatley, T. (2025, June). ”Smiling synchrony predicts rapport in autistic and neurotypical interactions”. Reading Emotions 2025, Reading, UK.

Matyjek M, Dziobek, I., Hamilton, A., Wheatley, T. (2024, Sep). “What makes a good interaction for autistic and neurotypical adults”. Autism Research Showcase (ARCH), London, UK.

Matyjek M, Bast N, Soto Faraco S (2024, March). ”Is there a social motion preference in autistic adults?”. WTAS 2024, Frankfurt, Germany.

Matyjek M, Bast N, Soto Faraco S (2024, January). ”Is there a social motion preference in autistic adults?”. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK.

Matyjek M, Kita S, Soto Faraco S (2023, September). ”Multisensory integration of speech in social context”. 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Granada, Spain.

Matyjek M, Kita S, Soto Faraco S (2023, June). ”Multisensory integration of speech in social context”. Interna- tional Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), Brussels, Belgium.

Matyjek M (2023, May). ” ’It takes two’: facilitating social interactions in autism – non- autism dyads. A concept poster”. CO-ALIGN Conference at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Gawronska S., Dziobek, I. (2021, March). Differential Impact of Autistic Traits and Social Anxiety on Reward Responsiveness Across the Autism Spectrum. 1st Digital Scientific Conference Autism Spectrum (WTAS), Germany.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Dziobek, I. (2019, March). Brain and pupil responses to social and monetary rewards across autistic traits. Poster at MindBrainBody Symposium 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Dziobek, I. (2018, May). The Role of Autistic Traits in Reward Anticipation. Poster presented at The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Dziobek, I. (2018, March). The Role of Autistic Traits in Reward Processing. Poster presented at 11th Wissenschaftliche Tagung Autismus-Spektrum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Matyjek M, Bayer, M., Dziobek, I. (2017, October). Reward-related processing of social and non-social cues in neurotypical participants. Poster presented at Science: Polish Perspectives Meetup Berlin, Germany.

Matyjek M (2017, April). Explicit vs. Implicit Theory of Mind: A Critical Evaluation. Evidence from Autism Research. Poster presented at IX Cracow Cognitive Science Conference: Consciousness, Krakow, Poland.

Matyjek M, Ciechanowska I., Cislik P., Grzadziel A., Jastrzebski J., Popeda B., Prochnicki M., Wlaszczyk A. and Zguda P. (2016, June). The Role Of Eye-movements in Perceptual Switching in Ambiguous 2D and 3D Figures. Poster presented at MEi:CogSci Conference 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Matyjek, M., Kroczek, B., Senderecka, M. (2016, April). Prior socio-affective experiences modulate the perception of otherwise neutral faces. Poster presented at NEURONUS 2016 IBRO & IRUN Neuroscience Forum, Krakow, Poland.

Matyjek, M., Kroczek, B., Senderecka, M. (2015, October). Facing Others: Game-Induced Emotions Influence the Perception of Other’s Facial Cues. Poster presented at IV Science Polish Perspectives, Cambridge, UK.

Matyjek, M., Kroczek, B., Senderecka, M. (2015, June). Induced Emotions Influence the Utilisation of Gaze Direc- tion Cues in a Modified Posner Task. Poster presented at MEi:CogSci Conference 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Matyjek, M., Strzelczyk, M. (2015, March). The Influence of Emotional Cues on Visual Attention to Face and Gestures in a Natural Social Setting. Poster at spring school: Interdisciplinary College 2015 “From Neuron to Person: Assembling Behavior and Cognition” in Gunne, Germany.