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New paper: "Retrospective attribution of false beliefs in 3-year-old children"

October 17, 2018

The study found that 3-year-old children can retrospectively infer the content of someone’s beliefs by combining present information with relevant events retrieved from episodic memory. This finding shows that emerging capacities for episodic memory contribute to the development of social cognitive processes, enriching children’s ability to monitor others’ mental states.

CEU Professor Gergely Csibra Elected to Prestigious British Academy

July 20, 2018

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Congratulations to Professor Gergely Csibra of the CEU Department of Cognitive Science on being elected as a Fellow of The British Academy in recognition of his work studying the cognitive capacities of infants.

Best Dissertation Award - 2018

June 7, 2018

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Warm congratulations to Denis Tatone (PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Science, graduating this year) whose thesis was chosen by the University Doctoral Committee as one of the three best dissertations this year!
Title of dissertation: The Naïve Sociology of Resource Transfer. Supervisors: Gergely Csibra and Dan Sperber.

Bravissimo Denis, and well deserved!

Denis Tatone's current CEU page: https://people.ceu.edu/denis_tatone