PUBLICATIONS BY GYÖRGY GERGELY

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Gergely, G. (1991) Free word order and discourse interpretation: Experimental studies on Hungarian sentence processing.  Budapest: MTA Academic Press.

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E., & Target, M. (2002). Affect-regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self. New York: Other Press.

Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. (Eds.). Humans and culture: The origins of cultural knowledge and its transition mechanisms. Monograph of the Psychological Bulletin, 11, Budapest: Academic Press, 2007.

Heyes C., Huber, L., Gergely, G., and Brass, M. (Eds.) Evolution, development and intentional control of imitation, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B, August 2009.

SELECTED PAPERS

Developmental Science (Social Cognitive and Emotional Development)

Gergely, G. (1985). Piaget and language acquisition.  In Mérei, F. (Ed.), In memory of Piaget.  (pp. 73-94), Budapest: MTA Academic Press.

Gergely, G. (1994). From self-recognition to theory of mind. In: S. Parker, R. Mitchell, & M. Boccia, (Eds.), Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives. (pp. 51-61), Cambridge University Press.

Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (1994). On the ascription of intentional content.  Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition, 13, 584-589.

Gergely, G. (1994). Mirror self-recognition and the development of theory of mind.  Psychology, 14(1), 1-19.

Gergely, G., Nádasdy, Z., Csibra, G., & Bíró, S. (1995). Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age. Cognition, Vol. 56, No. 2., 165-193.

Biró, S., Gergely, G., Csibra, G., & Koós, O. (1995) The perception of rationality in infancy. In: C. Pleh, Z. Vinkler, & A. Bocz, (Eds.), Proceedings of FIKOG, (pp. 75-99),  ELTE Budapest.

Gergely G., Nádasdy Z., Csibra G., & Bíró S. (1995). Understanding intentional actions at 12 months of age. Psychology, Vol. 15, No. 3., 331-367.

Gergely, G. (1996). „Oops!” or the psychology of mental awakening. The role of social mirroring in the development of self-awareness and self-control in infancy. Psychology, 1996, Vol. 16:4, 361-382.

Csibra G., & Gergely, G. (1996) On the dangers of oversimulation. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 127-8.

Gergely, G. (1996). Teleological explanation of behavior in infancy. In: G. Kampis (Ed.) Theories of Socio-cognitive Understanding., ELTE, Budapest.

Gergely, G., &  Watson, J. S. (1996). The social biofeedback theory of parental
affect-mirroring: The development of emotional self-awareness and self-control in infancy. The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 77, 1-31.

Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (1997). Teleological reasoning in infancy: The infant's naive theory of rational action. A reply to Premack and Premack. Cognition, 63, 227-233.

Biró, S., Koós, O., Csibra, G, & Gergely, G. (1997). Understanding rational action in infancy. Psychology of Language and Communication, Vol. 1., No.2.

Gergely, G. (1998). Naissance de la capacité de régulation des affects. In: J. Sacrispeyre (Ed.), Prendre soin d'un jeune enfant, (pp. 59-70), Toulouse: Societé d'Editions "Recherches et Syntheses" Érés.

Gergely, G., &  Watson, J. S. (1998). The social biofeedback model of parental
affect-mirroring. Thalassa, (Journal of the International Sándor Ferenczi Society) 9:1, 56-105.

Csibra G., & Gergely, G. (1998). The teleological origins of mentalistic action explanations: A developmental hypothesis. Developmental Science, 1:2, 255-259.

Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (1998). La interpretacion teleologica de la conducta: La teoria infantil de la accion racional  [The teleological interpretation of behaviour: the infant's theory of rational action]. Infancia y Aprendizaje, 84, 45-65, [Journal for the Study of Education and Development: Special Issue on The Physical Mind and the Social Mind edited by J. C. Gómez and M. Nunez].

Csibra G., & Gergely, G. (1998). The teleological origins of mentalistic action explanations. (pp. 369-379), In: Cs. Pléh (Ed.), Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Budapest: Academic Press.

Csibra G., Gergely, G., Biró, S., & Koós, O., & Brockbank, M. (1999). Goal-attribution without agency cues: The perception of 'pure reason' in infancy. Cognition, 72, 237-267.

Gergely, G. & Watson, J. S. (1999). Early social-emotional development: Contingency perception and the social biofeedback model. (pp. 101-137) In: P. Rochat (Ed.), Early Social Cognition, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gergely, G. (2001). Is early differentiation of human action a precursor to the one-year-old’s understanding of intentionality?  Developmental Psychology, Vol. 37, No. 5. 579-582.

Király, I., & Gergely, G. (2001). The relation between teleologically interpreting and imitating intentional actions in infants: The theory of rational imitation. (pp. 105-117). In: Kampis, G., & Ropolyi, L. (Eds.), Evolution and cognition, Budapest: Typotex.

Gergely, G. & Watson, J. S. (2001). The role of contingency perception in early socio-emotional development: Emotional self-awareness and the social biofeedback model. (pp. 244-279), In Pléh Cs., Csányi V., & Bereczkei T. (Eds.), Mind and evolution: Psychology and the Evolutionary Perspective. Budapest: Osiris.

Gergely, G., Bekkering, H., & Király, I. (2001). Rational imitation of goal-directed actions in 14-month-olds. (pp. 309-315), In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of Cogsci 2001, Edinburgh, August 1-5. LEA: London.

Watson, J., Gergely, G., Csányi, V., Topál, J., Gácsi, M., & Sárközi, Z. (2001). Distinguishing logic from association in the solution of an invisible displacement task by children (Homo sapiens) and dogs (Canis familiaris): Using negation of disjunction. Journal of Comparative Psychology, Vol. 115, No. 3, 219-226.

Gergely, G. (2002). The development of understanding self and agency. (pp. 26-46) In U. Goshwami (Ed.) Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Oxford: Blackwell.

Gergely, G. (2002). Some confusion about pretence-reality confusions. Developmental Science, Vol. 5, No. 4, 417-419.

Gergely, G., Bekkering, H., & Király, I. (2002). Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Nature, Vol. 415, p. 755.

Gergely, G., Koós, O., & Watson, J. S. (2002). Perception causale et role des comportements imitatifs des parents dans le développement socio-émotionnel précoce. (pp. 59-82) In J. Nadel & J. Decety (Eds.), Imiter pour découvrir l’human: Psychologie, neurobiology, robotique et philosophie de l’esprit. Paris: Press Universitaires de France.

Gergely, G. (2003): The development of teleological versus mentalizing observational learning strategies in infancy. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 67 (2), 113-131.

Gergely, G. (2003). What should a robot learn from an infant? Mechanisms of action Interpretation and observational learning in infancy. Connection Science, 13(4), 191-209.

Csibra, G., Bíró, S., Koós, O., & Gergely, G. (2003). One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively. Cognitive Science, vol. 27(1), 111-133.

Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2003). Teleological reasoning about actions: The one-year-old’s naïve theory of rational action. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 287-292.

Király, I., & Gergely, G. (2003). Shifting “goals”: Clarifying some misconceptions about the teleological stance in young infants. Consciousness and Cognition, 12(4), 773-776.

Király, I., Jovanovic, B., Prinz, W., Aschersleben, G., & Gergely, G. (2003). The early origins of goal attribution in infancy. Consciousness and Cognition, Vol. 12, No. 4, 752-769.

Gergely, G. (2004). The role of contingency detection in early affect-regulative interactions  and in the development of different types of infant attachment. Social Development, 13, 3, 469-478.

Gergely, G. & Csibra, G. (2005). The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy. Interaction Studies, 6:3, 463-481.

Gergely, G. & Csibra, G. (2005). A few reasons why we don’t share Tomasello et al.’s Intuitions about sharing. Commentary on Tomasello et al.: Understanding and sharing intentions, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28 (5), 701-702.

Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2006). Sylvia’s recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of cultural knowledge. (pp. 229-255) In: S. Levenson & N. Enfield (Eds.) Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition, and Human Interaction, Oxford: Berg Publishers.

Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. (2006). Social learning and social cognition: The case of pedagogy. In : M. H. Johnson & Y. M. Munakata (Eds.), Processes of change in brain and cognitive development. Attention and Performance, XXI., 249-274.

Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. (2007). ‘Obsessed with goals’: Functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans. In B. Hommel & S. Biro, (Eds.), "Becoming an intentional agent: The development of action control". A Special Issue of Acta Psychologica, 124, 60-78.

Gergely, G., Király, I., & Egyed, K. (2007). On pedagogy. Developmental Science, 10:1, 139-146.

Gergely, G. (2007). The social construction of the subjective self: The role of affect-mirroring, markedness, and ostensive communication in self development. In: L. Mayes, P. Fonagy, & M. Target,  (Eds.), Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis, London: Karnac.

Gergely, G. (2007). Mechanism of cultural learning: imitation, emulation and pedagogical knowledge transfer. (pp. 23-70), In: O. L. Sempio, A. Marchetti & A. Valle (Eds.), Intersubjectivity, Metacognition and Theory of Mind (Quaderni - 3), Milano: Dipartimento di Psicologia - Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

Gergely, G. & Csibra, G. (2007). The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy. (pp. 241-257) In: P. Hauf & F. Försterling (Eds.), Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context, Benjamins Current Topics 4, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Biro, S., Csibra, G., & Gergely, G. (2007). The role of behavioral cues in understanding animacy, agency and goal-directed actions in infancy. In: C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.) Progress in Brain Research: From action to cognition. Vol. 164., 303-322. Elsevier.

Gergely, G. (2007). Learning 'about' versus learning 'from' other minds: Human pedagogy and its implications. In: P. Carruthers (Ed.) The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (in press).

Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. (2007). Humans and culture: The origins of cultural knowledge and its transition mechanism. In: G. Csibra & G. Gergely (Eds.) Humans and culture: The origins of cultural knowledge and its transition mechanism, Monographs of the Psychological Bulletin, 11, 3-4, Budapest: Academic Press.

Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. (2007). Social learning and social cognition: The role of pedagogy. In: G. Csibra & G. Gergely (Eds.) Humans and culture: The origins of cultural knowledge and its transition mechanism, Monographs of the Psychological Bulletin, 11, 5-30, Budapest: Academic Press.

Gergely, G., Egyed, K. & Király, I. (2007). On natural pedagogy. In: G. Csibra & G. Gergely (Eds.) Humans and culture: The origins of cultural knowledge and its transition mechanism, Monographs of the Psychological Bulletin, 11, 107-125, Budapest: Academic Press.

Jovanovic, B., Király, I., Elsner, B., Gergely, G., Prinz, W., & Aschersleben, G. (2007).  The role of effects for infants' perception of action goals. Psychologia, Vol. 50. No. 4. pp. 273-290.

Topál, J., Gergely, G., Miklósi, Á., Erdőhegyi, Á., Csibra, G., Csibra, G.(2008) Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation. Science, 26 September 2008, Vol. 321. Issue 5897, pp.1831-1834.

Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. (2009). Natural pedagogy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Vol.13 No.4, pp.148-153..

Topal, J. Toth, M., Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2009). Response to Comment on "Infants' Perseverative Search Errors Are Induced by Pragmatic Misinterpretation". Science, 325, 1624. 

Gergely, G. (2010). Kinds of agents: The origins of understanding instrumental and communicative agency. In Goshwami, U. (Ed.), Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Development. 2nd Ed., Oxford: Backwell Publishers. (in press). 

Attachment, Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology

Gergely, G. (1988). The methodological myth of the sufficiency of purely clinical evidence in psychoanalytc theory.  In: F. Eros & Gy. Kiss, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th European CHEIRON Conference on the History of Psychology, Hungarian Psychological Association.  Budapest, Hungary.

Gergely, G. (1992).  Developmental reconstructions:  Infancy from the point of view of psychoanalysis and developmental psychology.  Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, Vol. 15, No. 1., 3-55.

Gergely, G. (1992). Historical versus narrative truth in psychoanalysis.  Psychology, 12, (1).

Gergely, G. (1993). The cognitive basis of defense mechanisms: The developmental origins of splitting and projection in the theories of Margaret Mahler and Melanie Klein. Thalassa (Journal of the International Sándor Ferenczi Society), Vol. 4, No. 3.

Gergely, G. (1997/1998). Reapproaching Mahler. East Central Europe - L'Europe du Centre-Est. Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. Special Issue on ‘The Renaissance of Psychoanalytic Tradition in Post-Communist Central Europe (Eds.: F. Erős and J. Vajda), (pp.65-96), Vol. 24-25.

Gergely, G. (1998). Margaret Mahlers Entwicklungstheorie im Licht der jüngsten empirischen Erforschung der kindlichen Entwicklung. In: W. Burian (Ed.), Der beobachtete und der rekonstruierte Saugling, (pp. 91-118), Psychoanalytische Blatter, Band 10, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Gergely, G. (2000). Mahler reapproached: New perspectives on normal autism, symbiosis, splitting and libidinal object constancy from cognitive developmental theory. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 48: 4, 1197-1228.

Gergely, G. (2000). The development of the representation of self and others. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Vol.1, No.3, 25-32.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Gergely, G. (2000). Attachment and borderline personality disorder: A theory and some evidence. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 23, No. 1. pp. 103-123.

Gergely, G. (2001). The obscure object of desire: 'Nearly, but clearly not, like me. Contingency preference in normal children versus children with autism. In J. Allen, P. (Ed.) Cognitive and interactional foundations of attachment, Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65(3), 411-426.

Allen, J. G., & Gergely, G. (2001). Introduction. In J. Allen, (Ed.) Cognitive and interactional foundations of attachment, Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, , 65(3), 293-296.

Koós, O., & Gergely, G. (2001). The 'flickering switch' hypothesis: A contingency-based approach to the etiology of disorganized attachment in infancy. In J. Allen, (Ed.) Cognitive and interactional foundations of attachment, Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65(3), 397-410.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Gergely, G. (2001). Dysfunctional attachment relationships and the psychosocial origins of borderline personality disorder. Thalassa, (Journal of the International Sándor Ferenczi Society) 12(1) 21-49.

Nichols, K., Gergely, G., & Fonagy, P. (2001). Experimental protocols for investigating relationships among mother-infant interaction, affect regulation, physiological markers of stress responsiveness, and attachment.  In J. Allen, (Ed.) Cognitive and interactional foundations of attachment, Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65(3), 371-379.

Gergely, G., Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2002). Attachment, mentalization, and the etiology of borderline personality disorder. Self Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 61-72.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Gergely, G. (2004). Psychoanalytic perspectives on developmental psychopathology. In: D. Cicchetti & D.J. Cohen (Eds.) Developmental Psychopathology, (2^nd ed.), 701-749. New York: Guilford Press. 

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., &  Target, M. (2007). The parent-infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48:3/4, 288-328.

Gergely, G. & Unoka, Zs. (2007). Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization. (pp. 109-142), In: Halász, P. (Ed.). Mind and altered mind states. Budapest: Novartis.

Gergely, G. & Unoka, Zs. (2008). The development of the unreflective self. (pp. 57-102), In: F.N. Bush (Ed.) Mentalization: Theoretical considerations, research findings, and clinical implications. New York: The Analitic Press.

Gergely, G. & Unoka, Zs. (2008). Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization: The developmental origins of the representational affective self. (pp. 303-340), In: C. Sharpe, P. Fonagy, & I. Goodyer, (Eds.) Social Cognition and Developmental Psychology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gergely, G. & Unoka, Zs. (in press). The development of the unreflective self. (pp. 57-102) In: F. Bush (Ed.)  The Reflective Self. Special Issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Gergely, G. & Unoka, Zs. (in press). Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization. In: E. J. Jurist, A. Slade, & S. Bergner (Eds.), Mind to mind: Infant research, neuroscience and psychoanalysis, NY: The Other Press.

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G. & Target, M. (in press). Psychoanalytic Constructs, Attachment Theory and Research Thinking. In Cassidy, J. & Shaver, P. (Eds.),  Handbook of Attachment (2^nd edition).

Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics

Gergely, G., & Bever, T. G. (1985). The mental representation of causative verbs.  Psychology, 5, 373‑439.

Gergely, G., & Bever, T. G. (1986).  Relatedness intuitions and the mental representation of causative verbs in adults and children.  Cognition, 23, 211‑277.

Gergely, G. (1988). The effect of focus‑based inferences on word recognition. Hungarian Psychological Review, 28(6), 443‑471.

Gergely, G. (1992). The role of focus-based inferences in antecedent matching:  Topic foregrounding at the clause-boundary. Psychology, 12(4) 467-514.

Gergely, G. (1992). Focus‑based inferences in sentence comprehension. In: I. Sag and A.  Szabolcsi (Eds.), Lexical Matters. (pp.209-240). CSLI. Stanford University Publications, Stanford, Palo Alto.

Gergely, G., & Pléh, C. (1994). Lexical processing in an agglutinative language and the organization of the lexicon. Folia Linguistica, XXVIII(1-2), 175-204.

Gergely, G. (1995). The role of discourse segmentation in sentence comprehension. (pp. 43-63) In Z. Telegdi, C. Pléh, & G. Szépe. (Eds.), Studies in general linguistics (Vol. 18). Budapest: MTA Academic Press  .

Gergely, G., & Pléh, C. (1995). Processing morphological ambiguities in an agglutinative language. Hungarian Psychological Review, LI. (35.), 5-6, 269-292.

Gergely, G. (1997). The role of focus-based inferences in antecedent matching: Topic foregrounding at the clause-boundary. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 44(1-2), pp. 111-150.

Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Nádasdy, Z. (2000). The perceptual basis of causal thinking. In Cs. Pléh, Gy. Kampis, & V. Csányi (Eds.). Current approaches in cognitive science. (pp. 52-74), Budapest: Academic Press.

Southgate, V., Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2007). Does the mirror neuron system and its impairment explain human imitation and autism? In: J.A. Pineda (Ed.) Mirror Neuron Systems: The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition. Humana Press.

Brass, M., Schmitt, R., Spengler, S., & Gergely, G. (2007). Investigating action understanding: Inferential processes versus action simulation. Current Biology, 17, Issue 24, December 18, 2007.