Contacts
Phone: +36 1 382 6615
Institute: Brain Imaging Centre
Group: Research Group of Neurocognitive Development
Office: D2.06A
Curriculum vitae
Education
2009-2012: PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Psychology)
Doctoral Degree Certificate: 2014
Title of the dissertation: Event-related brain potential correlates of atypical executive functions
Doctoral School of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Program, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2004-2010: MA in History (and in Teacher of History)
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2004-2009: MA in Psychology (and in Teacher of Psychology)
Cognitive and Experimental Psychology specialization
Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
1998-2004: Secondary school leaving certificate
ELTE Apáczai Csere János Gyakorló Gimnázium, Budapest, Hungary
Employment
2023-present: senior research fellow at the Brain Structure and Dynamics Research Group, Brain Imaging Centre, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences
2015-2023: research fellow at the Research Group of Neurocognitive Development, Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Eötvös Loránd Research Network
2014-2015: assistant research fellow at the Research Group of Neurocognitive Development, Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2012-2014: assistant research fellow at the Research Group of Developmental Psychophysiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Membership of Professional Associations
Public Body Membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: since 2020
Member of the Test Committee at the Hungarian Psychological Association: 2012-2016
European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN): since 2011
Hungarian Psychological Association: since 2006
Educational activity
Courses in undergraduate education at Eötvös Loránd University, Psychology BA (2008-2012):
Research Methodology: General Psychology (practice/seminar)
Statistics (practice/seminar)
Cognitive Psychology (practice/seminar)
General Psychology Research Paper (practice/seminar)
Courses in undergraduate education at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Psychology BA (2008-2009):
Statistics (practice/seminar)
Co-supervised Master’s theses
Co-supervised PhD student
Co-mentorship in the National Scientific Championship for Students (OTDK)
Research topics
Research Interests
The neurocognitive correlates of cognitive control (attention and executive functions), behavior adaptation, and decision making
The investigation of implicit/explicit statistical-sequence learning with behavioral, electrophysiological, and brain imaging methods
Neurocognitive mechanisms of word stress processing in second language acquisition
Research Experience
Experimental psychology
Psychophysiology/electrophysiology
Brain imaging
Neuropsychology
Typical and atypical development (childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder – ADHD, Tourette syndrome)
Multivariate statistical analyses
Survey-based screening
Obtained Funding (Grants and Scholarships)
János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2019-2022): The neurocognitive investigation of procedural learning in sequential decision making.
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund – OTKA FK 124412 (2017-2022): Probabilistic sequence learning in decision making: ERP and fMRI studies. Principal Investigator. Grant amount: 39,588,000 HUF.
MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Postdoctoral Research Programme (2015-2017): Investigation of the executive brain network with complex methods of cognitive neuroscience.
PhD Scholarship of Eötvös Loránd University (2009-2012).
Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic for outstanding scientific activity (2006-2009).
Participation in Funded Grant Applications
National Brain Research Program 3.0 (2023-present), in a collaborative project: A cross-species research framework for exploring the neurocognitive basis of mammalian learning. Postdoctoral researcher.
National Brain Research Program 3.0 (2022-present), in two projects: 1) Understanding and boosting skill learning by non-invasive brain stimulation. 2) Neural basis of reward-guided effort allocation for cognitive control and its impairment with ageing. Postdoctoral researcher.
National Brain Research Program 2.0 2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002 (2018-2022): Towards a neurocognitive model of rewiring automatic behaviors. Postdoctoral researcher.
KTIA NAP (National Brain Research Program) 13-2-2015-0002 (2015-2017): Cooperative and competitive neurocognitive networks underlying habit formation and habit change. Postdoctoral researcher.
KTIA_AIK_12-1-2013-0037 (2013-2015): Creating a virtual spatial neurocognitive research laboratory for the research and development of the future’s immersive media technology. Associate researcher.
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund – OTKA NK 101087 (2012-2016): CUES AND RULES – Neurocognitive investigation of acoustic and visual processing of words. Associate researcher.
TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0030 (2012): Attention, motivation, behavior regulation. Developing new paradigms and conducting experiments at the Illyés Sándor College for Advanced Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, as a PhD student.
TÁMOP 4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR/-2010-0003 (2010-2012): For Knowledge on a European Scale, ELTE. Conducting ERP experiments on cognitive control at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, as a PhD student.
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund – OTKA K 61615 (2006-2010): The cognitive basis of high functioning autism: the relations of naive theory of mind, language, executive functions, working memory. Participation in neuropsychological testing.
Awards
1st place: 29th National Scientific Championship for Students (OTDK), Pécs, 2009
Other Professional Activities
Reviewing for international and Hungarian journals: Acta Psychologica, Behavioral and Brain Functions, Behavioural Brain Research, Biological Psychology, Brain Structure and Function, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, PLoS ONE, Psychophysiology, Research in Developmental Disabilities, npj Science of Learning, Scientific Reports, Pszichológia (Psychology), Alkalmazott Pszichológia (Applied Psychology), Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle (Hungarian Review of Psychology)
Reviewing PhD dissertations (six dissertations since 2017) and participation in PhD defense committees
Committee member of the MA final exams at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University since 2015
Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences since 2022