Agnes Melinda Kovacs#
| Membership Number: | 5178 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.ceu.edu/agnes-melinda_kovacs |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Associate Professor, Central European University, Budapest
- 2015 - 2017 Research Fellow, Central European University, Budapest
- 2012 - 2015 Associate Research Fellow, Central European University, Budapest
- 2010 - 2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Development Centre, Central European University, Budapest
- 2008 - 2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- 2002 - 2008 PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- 2000 - 2002 Teaching Assistant: Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Intervention, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- 2000 - 2001 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Fields of Scholarship
- Cognitive development
- Bilingualism
- Social cognition
- Language development
- Language learning
- Theory of mind
- Mental representations
Honours and Awards
- 2012 ERC Starting grant
- 2006 - 2007 Central European Initiative Fellowship, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- 2001 - Socrates/Erasmus Research Exchange Fellowship, University of Sunderland, Department of Psychology, UK
