György Gergely#
| Membership Number: | 3408 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/gyorgy_gergely |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008- Professor of Psychology, Department of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Development Center, CEU, Hungary
- 2007-2008 Residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science (CASBS) Stanford, Palo Alto
- 2007 Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK
- 2003-2004 Visiting Professor, University College London, UK
- 1990-2008 Head of Department of Developmental Research, Research Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1989-1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Rochester,Rochester, New York
- 1987-2005 Associate Professor, Eötvös Lóránd University, Department of Psychology, Budapest
- 1986-1989 Research Fellow at the Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1990- 2008 Senior Research Psychologist, Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental psycholinguistics, word order and understanding complex sentences
- Contingency perception, self development, and social biofeedback
- Attachment, affective development and the organization of self
- Understanding intentional action
- Teleological reasoning in infancy
- Understanding artefact functions and artifact kinds
- Development of theory of mind
- Imitative learning
- Components of human action interpretation
- Development of agency in infancy
- Theory of 'natural pedagogy' and the role of ostension in cultural learning
Honours and Awards
- 2012 SAGE Center Distinguished Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UC Santa Barbara
- 2011 Recipient of the 2011 Jean-Nicod Prize & Lectures (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS-EHESS-ENS, Paris) with Gergely Csibra)
- 2010 Recipient of the Charles Simonyi Research Prize (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2007-2008 Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Stanford, Palo Alto
- 2005 Goethe Scholarship Award (Canadian PA)
- 2004 The Sylvia Brody Prize for Developmental Research (NYPA)
- 2004 Guggenheim Fellow (J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation)
- 2003 Gradiva Prize: best book on clinical theory of 2003 (NAAP, USA)
- 2002 Lajos Kardos Memorial Prize of the Hungarian Academy Of Sciences for Outstanding Scientific Achievements in the Field of Psychological Research
- 2001 IPA Committee Biannual Award for Exceptional Contribution to Research (UK/US)
- 1991 Margaret S. Mahler Prize (Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation, USA)
