Izabela Gatkowska

Izabela Gatkowska is a linguist, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where she holds a position of acting head of Department of Computational Linguistics and head of Electronic Information Processing studies (EPI). She also serves as reviewer of the Polish-American Fulbright Commission. Prof. Gatkowska researches lexical semantics, computer and neurolinguistics, and speech disorders. Upon collaboration on aphasia and dysarthria with neurologists at the Neurology Department, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, she designed a new Speech Assessment Method of diagnosing dysarthria in adults. Other interdisciplinary teams she was on investigated fMRI attention and, most recently, a cyclical experiment of free word associations (with 900 participants), which resulted in creating an experimental lexical network of the Polish language. She is the author and co-author of numerous articles on language awareness, cognitive foundations of information processing, naming emotions, human association network and human association norm, etc., including: