Publications

All my work can be found on my Google Scholar profile.

^ denotes joint first authorship

Language system in the brain 🧠

• Wolna, A., Wright, A., Casto, C., Hutchinson, S., Lipkin, B., & Fedorenko, E. (2025). The extended language network: Language selective brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered. BioRxiv (Preprint) DOI PDF
• Billot, A., Jhingan, N., Varkanitsa, M., Wolna, A., Shain,C., Blank, I., Ryskin, R., Kiran, S., Fedorenko, E. (2025). The language network ages well: Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and within-network functional connectivity in older brains. BioRxiv (Preprint) DOI PDF
• Casto, C., Small, H., Poliak, M., Tuckute, G., Lipkin, B., Wolna, A., D’Mello, A., & Fedorenko, E. (2025). The cerebellar components of the human language network. Neuron DOI PDF

Bilingualism

Neural basis of bilingual language control 🧠

• Lin, K.Y^., Wolna, A^., Szewczyk. J., Timmer, K., Diaz, M., Wodniecka, Z. (2026) Exploring Neural Mechanisms of Language Switching: An fMRI Study Using a Functional Localizer Approach. BioRxiv (Preprint) DOI
• Wolna, A., Szewczyk, J., Diaz, M., Domagalik, A., Szwed, M., Wodniecka, Z. (2024) Domain-general and language-specific contributions to speech production in L2: an fMRI study using functional localizers. Scientific Reports 14(57). DOI PDF
• Wolna, A., Szewczyk, J., Diaz, M., Domagalik, A., Szwed, M., Wodniecka, Z. (2024) Tracking components of bilingual language control in speech production: an fMRI study using functional localizers. Neurobiology of Language. 5(2): 315–340. DOI PDF

Cognitive control in bilinguals and its adaptations to context

• Timmer, K^., Wolna, A^.., Szewczyk, J., & Wodniecka, Z. (2025). Language Context Flexibly Modulates Language Control Mechanisms. Cognition. DOI PDF
• Casado, A., Walther, J., Wolna, A., Szewczyk, J., Sorace, A., & Wodniecka, Z. (2025). Investigation of long-and short-term adaptations of the bilingual language system to different language environments: Evidence from the ERPs. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 74, 101242. DOI
• Timmer, K., Wolna, A., & Wodniecka, Z. (2024). The impact of cues on language switching: do spoken questions reduce the need for bilingual language control? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1-19. DOI PDF
• Casado, A., Walther, J., Wolna, A., Szewczyk, J., Sorace, A., Wodniecka, Z. (2023) Advantages of visiting your home country: how brief reimmersion in their native country impacts migrants’ native language access. Bilingualism Language and Cognition, 1–12. DOI
• Casado, A., Szewczyk, J., Wolna, A., Wodniecka, Z. (2022) The relative balance between languages predicts the degree of engagement of global language control. Cognition, 226, 105169. DOI PDF
• Wodniecka, Z., Casado, A., Kałamała, P., Marecka, M., Timmer, K., Wolna, A. (2020). The dynamics of language experience and how it affects language and cognition. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 72, pp. 235-281). Academic Press. DOI PDF

Other work

• Czarnecka, M., Hryniewiecka, K., Wolna, A., Baumbach, C., Beck, J., Vadlamudi, J., … & Stroh, A. L. (2025). Association between Cortical Thickness and Functional Response to Linguistic Processing in the Occipital Cortex of Early Blind Individuals. Cerebral Cortex, 35(11), bhaf317. DOI PDF
• Wolna, A., Łuniewska, M., Haman, E., Wodniecka, Z. (2022) Polish norms for a set of coloured drawings of 168 objects and 146 actions with predictors of naming performance. Behaviour Research Methods, 1-27. DOI PDF CLT pictures
• Wolna A, Durlik J, Wodniecka Z. (2022) Pronominal anaphora resolution in Polish: Investigating online sentence interpretation using eye-tracking. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262459. DOI PDF