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Mateusz Hohol - Centrum Kopernika Badań Interdyscyplinarnych

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dr hab. Mateusz Hohol, prof. UJ, director of the CCIS

dr hab. Mateusz Hohol, prof. UJ, director of the CCIS

Director of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Jagiellonian University, professor at the Jagiellonian University, Dr. habil. in Psychology, Dr. in Philosophy, Head of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab.

His research interests focus mainly on mathematical cognition, i.e., psychological mechanisms of processing numbers and space, in various populations. In addition, Mateusz has been keenly involved in investigations on cognitive artifacts, methodological and conceptual issues in cognitive science, and social cognition. Currently, his main research foci include numerical cognition in professional mathematicians, the relationships between long-term memory and math skills, the cognitive profiles of individuals with developmental dyscalculia, and math anxiety.

Mateusz is a Principal Investigator of the following grants: "Cognitive artifacts on various time scales: An integrative approach" from National Science Centre, PL (2022–2026), "Mind, number, space: Spatial-numerical cognition in professional mathematicians" from Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (2024-2027), and "The gist of math: Applying Fuzzy-Trace Theory as an integrative framework to investigate different dimensions of numerical memory and their associations with mathematical skills in the general population and among individuals with dyscalculia" from National Science Centre, PL (2025–2029). He also represents JU in the steering committee of a grant "ErasMAs+ Enriching HEI training to help future primary school teachers tackle math anxiety in themselves and their pupils" funded by European Comission under Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in higher education (2025–2028).

He authored three books, including “Foundations of geometric cognition” (Routledge, 2020), and several papers in journals such as Cognition, Emotion, Psychological Research, Consciousness and Cognition, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Animal Cognition, Acta Psychologica, PeerJ, Frontiers in Psychology, Foundations of Science, Theory & Psychology, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Topoi, Synthese, Frontiers in Psychiatry, American Journal of Bioethics, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Scientific Reports. He also co-edited five books, e.g., “The Concept of Explanation” (CCPress, 2017) and special issues of Theory & Psychology (2019) and Synthese (2021).

Mateusz is a member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS), the Commission for Philosophy of Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU), and the Polish Society for Cognitive Science. He is also active in the Una Europa alliance, particularly as a member of the Future UniLab steering committee, a think tank serving as a living lab and providing a forum for discussions and research on the future role of universities in society.

Mateusz received a number of awards and scholarships, including the “Start” Scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science, the Scientific Prize of “Polityka” (one of the most read Polish weeklies), and the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists.

Contact: mateusz.hohol@uj.edu.pl

ORCID: 0000-0003-0422-5488

Find on:
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• Personal website: hohol.pl
• Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab

  • Experimental cognitive psychology: mechanisms of mathematical and spatial cognition , in particular: magnitude processing, spatial-numerical associations, embodiment of mathematics, cognitive foundations of geometry.
  • Philosophy of cognitive (neuro)science: conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive science, in particular: wide cognition, cognitive artifacts, mechanistic explanation, integration and unification of interdisciplinary research on brain and cognition.

Books

Articles

  1. Szymanek, P., Homan, M., van Elk, M., & Hohol, M. (2024). Effects of expectations and sensory unreliability on voice detection – A preregistered study. Consciousness and Cognition, 123, 103718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103718
  2. Hohol, M., Szymanek, P., Cipora, K. (2024). Analogue magnitude representation of angles and its relation to geometric expertise. Scientific Reports, 14(8997). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59521-6
  3. Grodniewicz, J. P. & Hohol, M. (2024). Therapeutic chatbots as cognitive-affective artifacts. Topoi, 43, 795–807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10018-x
  4. Grodniewicz, J. P., Hohol, M. (2023). Waiting for a digital therapist: Three challenges on the path to psychotherapy delivered by artificial intelligence. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14(1190084), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1190084
  5. Grodniewicz, J. P., Hohol, M. (2023). Therapeutic conversational artificial intelligence and the acquisition of self-understanding. The American Journal of Bioethics. 23(5), 59–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2191021
  6. Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Radai, Z., Francikowski, J., & Hohol, M. (2023). Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues. Animal Cognition, 23, 755–770. https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.28.886655
  7. Wołoszyn, K., Hohol, M., Kuniecki, M., & Winkielman, P. (2022). Restricting movements of lower face leaves recognition of emotional vocalizations intact but introduces a valence positivity bias. Scientific Reports, 12(16101), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18888-0
  8. Hohol, M., Wołoszyn, K., & Cipora, K. (2022). No fingers, no SNARC? Neither the finger counting starting hand, nor its stability robustly affect the SNARC effect. Acta Psychologica, 230, 103765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103765
  9. Hohol, M., Wołoszyn K., Brożek, B. (2021). Making cognitive niches explicit: On the importance of external cognitive representations in accounting for cumulative culture. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 15(734930). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2021.734930
  10. Miłkowski, M., Hohol, M. (2021). Explanations in cognitive science: Unication versus pluralism. Synthese. 199(Suppl. 1), S1–S17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02777-y
  11. Hohol, M., Willmes, K., Nęcka, E., Brożek, B., Nuerk, H.-C., Cipora, K. (2020). Professional mathematicians do not differ from others in the symbolic numerical distance and size effects. Scientific Reports, 10(11531). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68202-z
  12. Miłkowski, M., Hohol, M. Nowakowski, P. (2019). Mechanisms in psychology: The road towards unity? Theory & Psychology, 29(5), 567–578. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319875218
  13. Hohol, M., Miłkowski, M. (2019). Cognitive artifacts for geometric reasoning. Foundations of Science, 24(4), 657–680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-019-09603-w
  14. Miłkowski, M., Hensel, W.M., Hohol, M. (2018). Replicability or reproducibility? On the replication crisis in computational neuroscience and sharing only relevant detail. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 45(3), 163–172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-018-0702-z
  15. Hohol, M., Wołoszyn, K., Nuerk, H.-C., Cipora, K. (2018). A large-scale survey on finger counting routines, their temporal stability and flexibility in educated adults. PeerJ, 6(e5878). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5878
  16. Miłkowski, M., Clowes, R.W., Rucińska, Z., Przegalińska, A., Zawidzki, T., Gies, A., Krueger, J., McGann, M., Afeltowicz, Ł., Wachowski, W.M., Stjernberg, F., Loughlin, V., Hohol, M. (2018). From wide cognition to mechanisms: A silent revolution. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(2393) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02393

Chapters

  1. Hohol, M. (2021). Cognitive science: an interdisciplinary approach to mind and cognition. In: B. Brożek, M. Jakubiec, P. Urbańczyk (Eds.), Perspectives on interdisciplinarity (33–55), Kraków: Copernicus Center Press.
  2. Hohol, M. (2021). Matematyka w metaforach? O wyjaśnianiu pojęć matematycznych za pomocą metafor kognitywnych. In: M. Hetmański, A. Zykubek (Eds.), Metafory ucieleśnione (s. 49–72). Lublin: Academicon. https://doi.org/10.52097/acapress.9788362475810.49-72
  3. Hohol, M. (2018). Podstawy neuronauki poznawczej. In: B. Brożek, Ł. Kurek, J. Stelmach (Eds.), Prawo i nauki kognitywne (13-36), Warszawa: Wolters Kluwer.