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1 Alexandre L.S. Filipowicz, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Researcher Department of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA June 2017 Full Citizenship: Canadian, American, French Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish alsfilip [at] mail [dot] med [dot] penn [dot] edu Research Positions Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania (preceptors: Dr. Joshua Gold and Dr. Joseph Kable) Research Internship, Laboratoire des Neurosciences Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure (supervised by Dr. Étienne Koechlin position funded by an NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements award) 2017 Present 2015 Education Awards University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Supervisors: Dr. James Danckert and Dr. Britt Anderson Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience Thesis: Adapting to Change: The Role of Priors, Surprise and Brain Damage on Mental Model Updating. Diploma in Theoretical Neuroscience from the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, Waterloo, Ontario M.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience Thesis: The Influence of Redundant Spatial Regularities on Statistical and Sequence Learning. B.A. Honours in Psychology T32 NIHM Postdoctoral Training Fellowship (97,368 USD) CCPD Certificate of Teaching Excellence NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (6,000 CAD) NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (105,000 CAD) University of Waterloo President s Graduate Scholarship (30,000 CAD) Ontario Graduate Scholarship (15,000 CAD) Declined

2 Awards (Cont.) Publications Alexandre Filipowicz Curriculum Vitae Ontario Graduate Scholarship (15,000 CAD) University of Waterloo President s Graduate Scholarship (10,000 CAD) University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship (2,000 CAD) University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship (2,000 CAD) JR Coutts International Experience Award (1,500 CAD) Provost s International Volunteer Award (850 CAD) Sobey s Scholarship (1,000 CAD) St. Jerome s Entrance Scholarship (750 CAD) Articles Under Review / In Preparation Filipowicz, A., Danckert, J., Domenech, P., Koechlin, E., & Anderson, B. (in prep) Impaired Strategy Exploration Following Damage to the Anterior Insular and Inferior Frontal Gyrus. Jabar, S. B., Filipowicz, A., & Anderson, B. (under review) Knowing where is different from knowing what. Distinct response time profiles and accuracy effects for target location, orientation, and color probability. Submitted to: AP&P. Jabar, S., Filipowicz, A., & Anderson B., (under review) Tuned to Experience: How Orientation Probability Modulates Early Perceptual Processing. Submitted to: Vision Research. Published Peer-Reviewed Articles Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2016) Rejecting Outliers: Surprising Information Does Not Always Improve Belief Updating. Decision. Advanced online publication December 16 th, Filipowicz, A., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2016) Adapting to change: the role of the right hemisphere in mental model building and updating. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70(3), Stöttinger, E., Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Culham, J., Goodale, M., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2015) A cortical network that marks the moment when conscious representations are updated. Neuropsychologia, 79: Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2014) Measuring the influence of prior beliefs on probabilistic estimations. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp ). Austin, TX; Cognitive Science Society. Stöttinger, E., Filipowicz, A., Marandi, E., Quehl, N., Danckert, J., & Anderson, B. (2014). Statistical and perceptual updating: correlated impairments in right brain injury. Experimental Brain Research, 232:

3 Alexandre Filipowicz Curriculum Vitae Publications (Cont.) Stöttinger, E., Filipowicz, A., Danckert, J., & Anderson, B. (2014). The Effects of Prior Learned Strategies on Updating an Opponent s Strategy in the Rock, Paper, Scissors game. Cognitive Science, 38(7), Filipowicz, A., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2014). Learning what from where: Effects of spatial regularity on nonspatial sequence learning and updating. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(7), Conference Posters & Presentations Jabar, S., Filipowicz, A., & Anderson, B (2017) Knowing where is different from knowing what. Distinct response time profiles and accuracy effects for target location, orientation, and color probability. Poster to be presented at: European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany. Filipowicz, A., Danckert, J., Koechlin, E., Domenech, P., & Anderson, B. (2016) The Influence of Stroke on Belief Updating: Evidence for Insular Involvement. Poster presented at: Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA. Jabar, S., Filipowicz, A., & Anderson, B. (2016) Orienting to probable stimuli affects early perception: Modulating the C1 visual evoked potential in an orientation estimation task. Poster presented at: Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA. Filipowicz, A., Danckert, J., Koechlin, E., Domenech, P., & Anderson, B. (2016) Right Brain Damage updating impairments may be caused by inefficient exploration. Poster presented at: The Neuroscience of Decision Making, Montreal, QC, Canada. Filipowicz, A., Stöttinger, E., Willms, A., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2015) Difficulties with exploratory behaviour following right brain damage. Poster presented at: CSBBCS, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Filipowicz, A., Stöttinger, E., Willms, A., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2015) Updating impairments following right brain damage: A failure of exploration? Poster presented at: 5th Annual Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France. Stöttinger, E., Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Anderson, B. & Danckert, J. (2014) Neural correlates of updating mental models in a picture morphing task. Poster presented at: CSBBCS, Toronto, ON, Canada. Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Anderson, B., & Danckert, J. (2014) Measuring the influence of prior beliefs on probabilistic estimations. Poster presented at: Cognitive Science Society, Quebec, QC, Canada. Filipowicz, A., Danckert, J. & Anderson, B. (2014) Mental model updating depends on the salience of environmental change. Poster presented at: 4th Annual Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France. 3

4 Conference Posters & Presentations (cont.) Alexandre Filipowicz Curriculum Vitae Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Anderson, B. & Danckert, J. (2014) Plinko: A spatial probability task to measure learning and updating. Poster presented at: Vision Sciences Society, St Pete Beach, FL, USA. Filipowicz, A., Valadao, D., Anderson, B. & Danckert, J. (2014) Measuring the influence of prior beliefs on mental model updating. Talk presented at: Graduate Psychology Discovery Conference, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Filipowicz, A., Anderson, B., Danckert, J. (2013) The influence of taskirrelevant spatial regularity on sequence learning. Poster presented at: Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. Filipowicz, A., Stöttinger, E., Danckert, J., Anderson, B., (2012), Updating is more than a set shift. Poster presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Chicago, Illinois. Stöttinger, E., Filipowicz, A., Anderson, B., Danckert, J. (2012) Hemispheric effects on strategy updating. Poster presented at: Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, USA. Filipowicz, A., Roy, E. A. (2009) Conceptual knowledge of routine and novel naturalistic actions in community dwelling older adults. Poster presented at: TENNET, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Filipowicz, A., Desmarais, G., Painter, R., Stamenova, V., Roy, E. A., Gold, D. A., Lombarda, S., & Park, N. W. (2008) Does the performance of routine actions predict elderly participants ability to learn novel sequential actions?, Poster presented at: TENNET, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Invited Talks Filipowicz, A. (2016) Mental Model Updating: The Role of Surprise and Brain Damage. Talk presented at: University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. Filipowicz, A. (2015) The Influence of Right Hemisphere Brain Damage on Mental Model Updating. Talk presented at: École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Technical Skills Neuroimaging and Psychophysics EEG (Biosemi ActiveTwo analysis using EEGlab) fmri (1.5T Phillips scanner analysis using Brain Voyager) Lesion tracing and overlay analysis (MRIcron, NPM, and SPM) Eye movements using Eyelink 1000 and (SR research) Experience interfacing hardware with behavioural experiments (e.g., Xbox controller) 4

5 Alexandre Filipowicz Curriculum Vitae Technical Skills (Cont.) Experimental Design and Implementation Python based design platforms (PsychoPy, pygame, pyglet) Psychtoolbox (MATLAB) Data Analysis and Programming Data Analysis: R, MATLAB, Python analysis libraries (e.g., scipy, numpy), SPSS (IBM), Excel Programming: Python, MATLAB, R, Java Script, HTML, CSS Teaching Guest Lecturer The Biology of the Mind Two lectures as part of PSYCH 101: Introduction to Psychology Renison College, University of Waterloo Lab Instructor University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Neuroscience Society (Winter 2017) Facilitated a brain dissection event for the UW Neuroscience Society PSYCH 391: Advanced Data Analysis (Winter and Fall 2016) Taught weekly tutorials on advanced ANOVA methods I received the national CCPD Certificate of Teaching Excellence award for my work in this course. PSYCH 398: Research in Memory (Winter 2015) Taught students to create and conduct behavioural experiments Taught students to program experiments in Python PSYCH 396: Research in Behavioural Neuroscience (Winter 2014) Taught weekly neuroanatomy labs, including histology and dissection Honours Thesis Supervision Student: Amy Willms Thesis: Right Brain Damage Impairments in Mental Model Updating A portion of Amy s data was presented at two international conferences. She also received a University of Waterloo Psychology Honours Thesis Award. Student: Yana Kuzma Thesis: Plinko As A Measure Of Updating Mental Models: An Investigation Into The Order Effect of Surprise 5

6 Alexandre Filipowicz Curriculum Vitae Volunteer Work Vice President/ Recruitment Director, Grand River Gargoyles Australian Football Club, Guelph Ontario, Canada. Oversee club administration and recruitment. Community Research Outreach, Heart and Stroke Foundation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Demo some of the University of Waterloo s Heart and Stroke funded research for a community Outreach day. President/ Head Instructor, University of Waterloo Parkour Club, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Oversee club administration and organize/instruct club parkour classes. Live-in Assistant, El Arca de Cholutecha, Choluteca, Honduras. Live with and assist mentally and physically handicapped adults through the Intercordia/Beyond Borders program at St-Jerome s University. In recognition of my volunteer work, I received the JR Coutts International Experience and Provost s International Volunteer Awards

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