György Gergely
Professor
Co-Director of the Cognitive Development Center (CDC)
A Kognitív Fejlődéslélektani Kutatóközpont Társ-Igazgatója
Room:
1015 Budapest, Hattyú u. 14. room 403.
Phone number:
+36-1-328-3663 Qualifications:
2006 Dr. Habil. Cognitive Neuroscience Doctoral Program, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
2002 D. Sc. Degree in Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1986 Ph.D. Degree in Psychology, Columbia University, Experimental Psycholinguistics Program,
1997 Ph.D. Degree in Clinical Child Psychology, Qualified Clinical Child Psychologist, HIETE University, Budapest
1980 M. Phil. Degree in Psychology, University College, London
1978 B.Sc. Degree in Social Psychology, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences
2007- Academic Research Faculty Member, University College London/The Anna Freud Centre, London
2009 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association
Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements:
My professional work has been acknowledged by several international awards of scientific excellence including the Margaret Mahler Prize (1991), the IPA Committee’s Award for Exceptional Contribution to Research (2001), the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Beach Comparative Psychology Award (2001), the Kardos Memorial Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Outstanding Scientific Achievements in Psychological Research (2002), the Sylvia Brody Prize of the New York Psychoanalytic Association (2003), the Gradiva Prize (NAAP, USA, 2003), and the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship (Canadian PA, 2006).
CV attachment:
Academic/research topics:
cognitive science
Social cognitive development
clinical psychology
developmental psychopathology
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Language proficiencies (spoken):
English
Language proficiencies (spoken):
French
Language proficiencies (spoken):
Hungarian Courses taught by György Gergely
| Infant cognition | 2013/2014 |
| Communicative and cultural knowledge transmission | 2013/2014 |
| Infant Cognition | 2012/2013 |
| Reasoning about instrumental and communicative agency in human infancy | 2012/2013 |
| Infant Cognition | 2011/2012 |
| The Origin of Concepts | 2011/2012 |
Publications
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Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B, Edited by Gy. Gergely, C. Heyes, L. Huber and M. Brass. London, 2009.
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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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Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self. New York: Other Press, 2002.
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Free word order and discourse interpretation: Experimental studies on Hungarian sentence processing. Budapest: Akadémia Kiadó, 1991.
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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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"Kinds of agents: The origins of understanding instrumental and communicative agency." In Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, edited by U. Goshwami. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2010.
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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.
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"Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization: The developmental origins of the representational affective self." In Social cognition and developmental psychopathology, 303-340. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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"Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization." In Mind to mind : infant research, neuroscience and psychoanalysis. New York: Other Press, 2008.
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"The development of the unreflective self." In Mentalization : theoretical considerations, research findings, and clinical implications, 57-102. New York: Analytic Press, 2008.
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"Psychoanalytic Constructs, Attachment Theory and Research Thinking." In Handbook of attachment. New York: Guilford Press, 2008.
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"Learning 'about' versus learning 'from' other minds: Human pedagogy and its implications." In The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future, edited by P. Carruthers, 170-199. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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"Mechanism of cultural learning: imitation, emulation and pedagogical knowledge transfer." In Intersubjectivity, metacognition and theory of mind. Workshop, 23-70. Milano: ISU Università Cattolica, 2007.
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"The social construction of the subjective self: The role of affect-mirroring, markedness, and ostensive communication in self development." In Developmental science and psychoanalysis : integration and innovation, edited by L. Mayes, M. Target and P. Fonagy, 45-82. London: Karnac, 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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"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.
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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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"Psychoanalytic perspectives on developmental psychopathology." In Developmental Psychopathology, edited by D. J. Cohen, Cicchetti and D., 701-749., 2004.
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"Perception causale et role des comportements imitatifs des parents dans le développement socio-émotionnel précoce." In Imiter pour découvrir l’human: Psychologie, neurobiology, robotique et philosophie de l’esprit, edited by J. Nadel and J. Decety, 59-82. Paris: ress Universitaires de France, 2002.
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"The Development of Understanding Self and Agency." In Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, edited by U. Goswami, 26-46. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
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"Korai szocio-emocionális fejlődés kontingenciaészlelés és a szociális biofeedback." In Lélek és evolúció : az evolúciós szemlélet és a pszichológia, edited by Cs Pleh, V. Csányi and T. Bereczki, 244-279. Budapest: Osiris, 2001.
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"Intencionális cselekvések utánzásának és teleológiai értelmezésének viszonya csecsemőknél: A racionális utánzás elmélete." In Evolúció és megismerés, edited by G. Kampis and L. Ropolyi, 105-117. Budapest: Typotex, 2001.
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"Rational imitation of goal-directed actions in 14-month-olds." In Proceedings of Cogsci 2001, 309-315. London: LEA, 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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"Early social-emotional development: Contingency perception and the social biofeedback model." In Early social cognition : understanding others in the first months of life, edited by P. Rochat, 101-137. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
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"Naissance de la capacité de régulation des affects." In Prendre soin d'un jeune enfant, edited by J. Sacrispeyre, 59-70. Toulouse: Societé d'Editions "Recherches et Syntheses" Érés., 1998.
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"Margaret Mahlers Entwicklungstheorie im Licht der jüngsten empirischen Erforschung der kindlichen Entwicklung." In Der beobachtete und der rekonstruierte Saugling, edited by W. Burian, 91-118. sychoanalytische Blatter , no. 10. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 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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"The role of discourse segmentation in sentence comprehension." In Studies in general linguistics, edited by C. Telegdi and Cs Pleh, 43-63. Budapest: MTA, 1995.
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"From self-recognition to theory of mind." In Self-awareness in animals and humans : developmental perspectives, edited by S. Parker, R. Mitchell and M. Boccia, 51-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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"Focus-based inferences in sentence comprehension." In Lexical matters, edited by A. Szabolcsi and I. Sag, 209-240. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992.
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"The methodological myth of the sufficiency of purely clinical evidence in psychoanalytc theory." In Proceedings of the 7th European CHEIRON Conference on the History of Psychology, edited by Gy. Kiss. Budapest: Hungarian Psychological Association, 1988.
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"Piaget and language acquisition." In In memory of Piaget, edited by F. Mérei, 73-94. Budapest: Akadémia Kiadó, 1985.
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Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Vol. 415., 2002.
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Review., 1997.
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