Gergely Csibra
Professor
Head of Department
Phone number:
+36 1 328 3661 Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements:
My research focuses on various aspects of cognitive development in human infants. Specifically, I study infants' visual processing from the level of spatial attention and eye-movement control through the intermediate levels of object and face perception to the level of interpretation of observed actions in terms of goals and understanding of communicative signals. I am also interested in how cognitive processes are accomplished by the human brain and how cognitive development can be explained by the neural development in infancy. Beyond behavioral measures, I use high-density event-related potentials and near-infrared spectoscropy (optical imaging) to measure the on-line functioning of the brain while infants are engaged in various activities.
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Academic/research topics:
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Publications
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Ember és kultúra. A kulturális tudás eredete és átadásának mechanizmusai In Ember és kultúra : A kulturális tudás eredete és átadásának mechanizmusai.. Vol. 11. Pszichológiai Szemle Könyvtár 11. Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007.
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"Teleological understanding of actions." In Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Chidren, and Other Species Can Teach Us, edited by M. R. Banaji and S. A. Gelman. Oxford University Press, In Press.
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"Natural pedagogy." In Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Chidren, and Other Species Can Teach Us, edited by M. R. Banaji and S. A. Gelman. Oxford University Press, In Press.
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"Does the mirror neuron system and its impairment explain human imitation and autism?" In Mirror Neuron Systems:The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition, edited by J. A. Pineda, 331-354. Berlin: Springer, 2009. Abstract
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"The development and integration of dorsal and ventral visual pathways in object processing." In Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 467-478. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008.
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"Electrophysiological methods in studying infant cognitive development." In Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 247-262. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008.
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"Investigating event-related oscillations in infancy." In Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials, edited by M. De Haan, 289-304. Hove, England: Psychology Press, 2007.
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"Társas tanulás és társas megismerés. A pedagógia szerepe." In Ember és kultúra : a kulturális tudás eredete és átadásának mechanizmusai, 5-30. Vol. 11. Pszichológiai Szemle Könyvtár 11. Budapest, Hungary, H: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007.
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"Action mirroring and action interpretation: An alternative account." In Attention and Perfomnace XXII: Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition, edited by P. Haggard, Y. Rosetti and M. Kawato, 435-459. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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"Sylvia's recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of human culture." In Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition, and Human Interaction, edited by N. J. Enfield and S. C. Levinson, 229-255. Oxford: Berg Publisher, 2006.
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"Social learning and social cognition: The case for pedagogy." In Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development. Attention and Performance XXI, edited by Y. Munakata and M. H. Johnson, 249-274. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Abstract
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"A kulturális elme társadalmi konstruálása: az utánzásos tanulás mint humánpedagógiai mechanizmus." In Az ezerarcú elme. Tanulmányok Pléh Csaba 60. születésnapjára, edited by J. Gervain, K. Kovács, Á. Lukács and M. Racsmány, 371-377. Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2005.
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"The development and integration of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways: A neurocomputational approach." In Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, edited by C. A. Nelson and M. Luciana, 339-351. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
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"The perceptual basis of causal thinking." In Current approaches in cognitive science, edited by Cs Pleh and G. Kampis, 52-74. Budapest: Akadémia Kiadó, 2000.
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"Toward a computational model of the development of saccade planning." In The Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, edited by J. E. Richards, 103-130. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.
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"A racionális viselkedés naiv elméletének kísérleti vizsgálata csecsemokorban." In Fikog : a Magyar Megismeréstudományi Társaság és az Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem Általános Pszichológia Tanszéke által rendezett Fiatal Kognitivisták I. konferenciáján elhangzott előadások anyaga : Budapest, 1995. május 11-12., edited by Cs Pleh, Z. Vinkler and A. Botz, 75-98. Budapest, Hungary: ELTE, 1995.
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Mirror neurons and action understanding. Is simulation involved? In Interdisciplines., 2005. Abstract
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