Cognitive Development Center at CEU

Our Budapest babylab has reopened after a move and has just welcomed its first baby scientist 💛

Múlt héten végre köszönthettük új laborunk első látogatóját! 🥰 Nagyon köszönjük a részvételt, reméljük még sokszor találkozunk! ☺️

Congratulations to Paula Fischer who yesterday defended her PhD thesis 🎈🥂 Paula studied theory of mind under supervision of Agnes M. Kovacs and Erno Teglas. Thesis committee members were Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Alan Leslie, and Christophe Heintz.

We created an iPad game for studying social cognition (especially, partner choice) in children. The app is freely available for interested researchers. See more at

CoCollectors | Cognitive Development Center In the game, colorful characters (“kobos”) collect berries. These berries are contained inside coconuts, which have to be cracked open by the kobos using little hammers. If a kobo is successful and manages to hit a coconut sufficient times before it perishes, it opens and the berries from inside...

Save the date 🔹 5-7 January 2023 🔹 In 2023 we hope to see everyone in person in Budapest 🤞🤞 H. Clark Barrett form UCLA Anne Christophe École normale supérieure - PSL Kang Lee University of Toronto will be our invited speakers. Some new things this year: 👉 earlier paper submission deadline (31 July) 👉 extended review process for paper submissions 👉 half-day pre-conference workshops. Check out the conference website here: https://bcccd.org/welcome.htm Program chairs this year are Eszter Körtvélyesi and Rachel Dudley. Stay tuned, more info coming soon!

Chicks know nothing

New Study Shows Ability of Animals to Think Abstract Concepts Such as 'Nothing' | Central European University Vienna, April 22, 2022 -- Do animals care about nothing? Human thought readily relies on such concepts, for instance, when we stare at the night sky and think about the deep void. What’s more, we even have a number that denotes nothing or no items, which is zero.

submission deadline approaching!

👉Submit your abstract by September, 30th at https://bcccd.org👈

🔹You can chose among many presentation formats: on-site and vir , talks, and posters.

🔹Our invited speakers will be Rebecca Saxe and Fiery Cushman.

🔹The invited symposium will feature Jacqueline Gottlieb, Constantin A. Rothkopf, Azzurra Ruggeri.

If you have any questions about the submission process or the conference format, we're happy to help!

Happy to announce a new paper by our lab members. Denis Tatone Gergely Csibra Mikołaj Hernik explore the links between social cognition and object representation: 12-month-olds encode objects they saw being given in more detail than those they saw being taken.

Facilitation of object encoding in infants by the observation of giving - Scientific Reports We propose that humans are prepared to interpret giving as a diagnostic cue of reciprocal–exchange relations from infancy. A prediction following from this hypothesis is that infants will represent the identity of an object they see being given, because this information is critical for evaluating ...

The Cognitive Development Center at Central European University invites applications for a full-time Babylab coordinator position. Researchers at the Babylab conduct studies on the cognitive development of infants and young children. The holder of this position contributes to this research by coordinating participant recruitment activities of the Babylab and assisting research. For details, see https://www.ceu.edu/job/babylab-coordinator-0

Watch the recordings of the 5 plenary sessions of BCCCD21 at our Youtube channel:

Giorgio Vallortigara
Of chicks and babies: How to build a social brain based on animacy detectors

Discussion Session
Unpacking the implicit/explicit distinction: Perspectives from child, adult & comparative Research

Invited Syposium
Think big! In Memoriam Jacques Mehler

Discussion Session
How and why do infants develop an understanding of social behavior?

Laura Schulz
Not playing by the rules: Distinctively human play and distinctively human cognition

BCCCD21 Plenary sessins at BCCCD21, January 2021

The virtual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21) will take place next week, January 4-8. The conference program can be accessed at http://bcccd.org/program-overview.htm.
If you’re interested in attending, you can register here: https://tinyurl.com/bcccd21reg Shortly after registering, you will receive access to the conference platform (and if not, contact us at [email protected]).
We look forward to seeing you online soon!

Online registration :: Asszisztencia :: 21BCCCD During registration you will be asked to add invoice details and VAT number of your university, hospital, workplace or sponsor. Please prepare these details before entering the form.