Gergely Csibra
Professor
Cognitive Science
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Gergely Csibra is currently Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Hungary. His research focuses on various aspects of cognitive development in human infants. Currently, He study how infants understand actions and social interactions, how they attribute mental states, how they interpret communication addressed to them, and how they learn from others. He is also interested in episodic memory, object perception, symbol use, and many other topics in cognitive psychology. Their research is methodologically promiscuous: we employ various behavioral and neuroimaging methods to answer these questions.
Research Interest
Episodic Memory, Perception and Action, Theory of Mind, Cognitive development, Infant social cognition.
Publications
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Csibra G, Hernik M, Mascaro O, Tatone D, Lengyel M. Statistical treatment of looking-time data. Developmental Psychology. 2016;52(4):521-36.
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Pomiechowska B, Csibra G. Motor activation during action perception depends on action interpretation. Neuropsycholgia. In Press.
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Mahr J, Csibra G. Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. In Press.
