Mathew Cieśla

Mathew Cieśla is a postgraduate researcher and demonstrator at the Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, UK. He holds a BA (Hons) in Psycholinguistics from the University of Alabama and was a Fulbright Scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (2022–2023). His research focuses on dialect effects in language education, bidialectal-bilingual comparisons, and late second language acquisition. He has collaborated internationally, including at the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language).

Education:

• BA (Hons) in Psycholinguistics, University of Alabama (2018–2022)
• Fulbright Scholarship, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (2022–2023)

His research explores how dialect density influences primary language processing and the role of orthography vs. images in second language learning. Recent work includes studies on motor encoding in sign language acquisition and neural markers of foreign language learning. He actively contributes to peer review for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Awards:

• Fulbright Scholarship (2022)

His advisory and grant activities are not detailed here, but his work spans interdisciplinary collaborations in cognitive psychology and educational neuroscience.