György Gergely
Biographic Data
| ID | 1463816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | György Gergely |
| GIVEN NAMES | György |
| FAMILY NAME | Gergely |
| SIGNATURE | GERGELY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2094-4258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Better Together
Humans engage in cooperative activities from early on and the breadth of human cooperation is unparalleled. Human preference for cooperation might reflect cognitive and motivational mechanisms that drive engagement in cooperative activities. Here we investigate early indices of humans’ cooperative abilities and test whether 14-month-old infants expect agents to prefer cooperative over individual goal achievement. Three groups of infants saw video…
Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner
Pragmatic theories assume that during communicative exchanges humans strive to be optimally informative and spontaneously adjust their communicative signals to satisfy their addressee’s inferred epistemic needs. For instance, when necessary, adults flexibly and appropriately modify their communicative gestures to provide their partner the relevant information she lacks about the situation. To investigate this ability in infants, we designed a coo…
Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self
This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of psychological development and represents psychological states in the minds of infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
Pointing as Epistemic Request
Infants start pointing systematically to objects or events around their first birthday. It has been proposed that infants point to an event to share their appreciation of it with others. In this study, we tested another hypothesis, according to which infants’ pointing could also serve as an epistemic request directed to the adult. Thus, infants’ motivation for pointing could include the expectation that adults would provide new information about …
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation
We propose that the cognitive mechanisms that enable the transmission of cultural knowledge by communication between individuals constitute a system of ‘natural pedagogy’ in humans, and represent an evolutionary adaptation along the hominin lineage. We discuss three kinds of arguments that support this hypothesis. First, natural pedagogy is likely to be human-specific: while social learning and communication are both widespread in non-human anima…
Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants
The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicits orientation following behavior in 8-month-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye tracker. We found that an object's occasional orientation toward peripheral targets was reciprocated by a congruent visual orientation following response …
Natural pedagogy
Social learning and social cognition
We propose that humans are adapted to transfer knowledge to, and receive knowledge from, conspecifics by teaching. This adaptation, which we call ‘pedagogy’, involves the emergence of a special communication system that does not presuppose either language or high-level theory of mind, but could itself provide a basis for facilitating the development of these human-specific abilities both in phylogenetic and ontogenetic terms. We speculate that to…
The Role of Contingency Detection in Early Affect–Regulative Interactions and in the Development of Different Types of Infant Attachment
Teleological reasoning in infancy
Shifting “goals”
The early origins of goal attribution in infancy
Rational imitation in preverbal infants
Is early differentiation of human behavior a precursor to the 1-year-old's understanding of intentional action? Comment on Legerstee, Barna, and DiAdamo (2000)
In a recent issue of Developmental Psychology, M. Legerstee, J. Barna, and C. DiAdamo (2000) reported a study showing that 6-month-olds expect people to talk to persons rather than to inanimate objects and to manipulate inanimates rather than persons. They interpreted this ability as a "precursor" to later understanding of intentionality. The present article takes issue with the authors' 2 different levels of interpretation that contradict each o…
Is early differentiation of human behavior a precursor to the 1-year-old's understanding of intentional action? Comment on Legerstee, Barna, and DiAdamo (2000)
Reapproaching Mahler
Margaret Mahler's seminal work on the psychological birth of the infant has generated more critical discussion than most other psychoanalytic theories of early development. But while the empirically, theoretically, and methodologically based criticisms of Mahler's theory are generally justified, her critics fail at times to consider some of the intriguing and creative insights that her theoretical formulations tried to capture. This paper attempt…
Goal attribution without agency cues
Reapproaching Mahler
GYÖRGY GERGELY REAPPROACHING MAHLER: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NORMAL AUTISM, SYMBIOSIS, SPLITTING AND LIBIDINAL OBJECT CONSTANCY FROM COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY Introduction: Mahler and her critics Margaret Mahler's separation-individuation theory 1 exemplifies one of the first systematic attempts within psychoanalytic theory2 to integrate clinically derived analytic conceptualizations of early psychic development with exist- ing empirical evidenc…
Reapproaching Mahler
Margaret Mahler's seminal work on the psychological birth of the infant has generated more critical discussion than most other psychoanalytic theories of early development. But while the empirically, theoretically, and methodologically based criticisms of Mahler's theory are generally justified, her critics fail at times to consider some of the intriguing and creative insights that her theoretical formulations tried to capture. This paper attempt…
Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age
Free Word Order and Discourse Interpretation
Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants
The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicits orientation following behavior in 8-month-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye tracker. We found that an object's occasional orientation toward peripheral targets was reciprocated by a congruent visual orientation following response …
Is early differentiation of human behavior a precursor to the 1-year-old's understanding of intentional action? Comment on Legerstee, Barna, and DiAdamo (2000)
The Role of Contingency Detection in Early Affect–Regulative Interactions and in the Development of Different Types of Infant Attachment
Free Word Order and Discourse Interpretation
Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age
Reapproaching Mahler
GYÖRGY GERGELY REAPPROACHING MAHLER: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NORMAL AUTISM, SYMBIOSIS, SPLITTING AND LIBIDINAL OBJECT CONSTANCY FROM COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY Introduction: Mahler and her critics Margaret Mahler's separation-individuation theory 1 exemplifies one of the first systematic attempts within psychoanalytic theory2 to integrate clinically derived analytic conceptualizations of early psychic development with exist- ing empirical evidenc…
Reapproaching Mahler
Margaret Mahler's seminal work on the psychological birth of the infant has generated more critical discussion than most other psychoanalytic theories of early development. But while the empirically, theoretically, and methodologically based criticisms of Mahler's theory are generally justified, her critics fail at times to consider some of the intriguing and creative insights that her theoretical formulations tried to capture. This paper attempt…
Goal attribution without agency cues
Reapproaching Mahler
Margaret Mahler's seminal work on the psychological birth of the infant has generated more critical discussion than most other psychoanalytic theories of early development. But while the empirically, theoretically, and methodologically based criticisms of Mahler's theory are generally justified, her critics fail at times to consider some of the intriguing and creative insights that her theoretical formulations tried to capture. This paper attempt…
Is early differentiation of human behavior a precursor to the 1-year-old's understanding of intentional action? Comment on Legerstee, Barna, and DiAdamo (2000)
In a recent issue of Developmental Psychology, M. Legerstee, J. Barna, and C. DiAdamo (2000) reported a study showing that 6-month-olds expect people to talk to persons rather than to inanimate objects and to manipulate inanimates rather than persons. They interpreted this ability as a "precursor" to later understanding of intentionality. The present article takes issue with the authors' 2 different levels of interpretation that contradict each o…
Is early differentiation of human behavior a precursor to the 1-year-old's understanding of intentional action? Comment on Legerstee, Barna, and DiAdamo (2000)
Rational imitation in preverbal infants
Teleological reasoning in infancy
Shifting “goals”
The early origins of goal attribution in infancy
The Role of Contingency Detection in Early Affect–Regulative Interactions and in the Development of Different Types of Infant Attachment
Social learning and social cognition
We propose that humans are adapted to transfer knowledge to, and receive knowledge from, conspecifics by teaching. This adaptation, which we call ‘pedagogy’, involves the emergence of a special communication system that does not presuppose either language or high-level theory of mind, but could itself provide a basis for facilitating the development of these human-specific abilities both in phylogenetic and ontogenetic terms. We speculate that to…
Natural pedagogy
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation
We propose that the cognitive mechanisms that enable the transmission of cultural knowledge by communication between individuals constitute a system of ‘natural pedagogy’ in humans, and represent an evolutionary adaptation along the hominin lineage. We discuss three kinds of arguments that support this hypothesis. First, natural pedagogy is likely to be human-specific: while social learning and communication are both widespread in non-human anima…
Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants
The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicits orientation following behavior in 8-month-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye tracker. We found that an object's occasional orientation toward peripheral targets was reciprocated by a congruent visual orientation following response …
Pointing as Epistemic Request
Infants start pointing systematically to objects or events around their first birthday. It has been proposed that infants point to an event to share their appreciation of it with others. In this study, we tested another hypothesis, according to which infants’ pointing could also serve as an epistemic request directed to the adult. Thus, infants’ motivation for pointing could include the expectation that adults would provide new information about …
Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self
This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of psychological development and represents psychological states in the minds of infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
Better Together
Humans engage in cooperative activities from early on and the breadth of human cooperation is unparalleled. Human preference for cooperation might reflect cognitive and motivational mechanisms that drive engagement in cooperative activities. Here we investigate early indices of humans’ cooperative abilities and test whether 14-month-old infants expect agents to prefer cooperative over individual goal achievement. Three groups of infants saw video…
Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner
Pragmatic theories assume that during communicative exchanges humans strive to be optimally informative and spontaneously adjust their communicative signals to satisfy their addressee’s inferred epistemic needs. For instance, when necessary, adults flexibly and appropriately modify their communicative gestures to provide their partner the relevant information she lacks about the situation. To investigate this ability in infants, we designed a coo…
Psychology (20 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (16 works) · Cognitive psychology (15 works) · Cognition (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive science (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Communication (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works)