Personal

• Place and date of birth: Budapest, 19th, February, 1979
• Nationality: Hungarian
• Address: Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP, UK
• E-mail: aczel [at] linkgroup.hu
• Web: http://www.implab.org/wiki/index.php/Balazs_Aczel

Employments:

• 01.2004-06.2004 Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of Psychology, Budapest research assistant
• 01.2004-02.2004 Vadaskert Hospital of Child Psychology, Budapest research assistant
• 04.2003-12.2003 Cognitive Research Centre, Budapest University of Technology research assistant
• 01.1998-08.1998 Hungarian National Library, Budapest reader service

Education

• 1993-1997 Reformed Grammar School in Papa, Hungary
• 2001-2006 cognitive psychology researcher, Institute of Psychology, University of Eötvös Loránd Budapest, Hungary (MA expected: Jul. 2006)
• 2006- PhD student, Dep. of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge

Research interest

• Probabilistic aspects of human cognitive processes: learning and decision making
• Dynamic analysis of learning tests, probability classification learning
• Non-conscious cognition: dissociation/interaction/competition of implicit-explicit learning in normal and disordered neural systems
• Neural architecture of implicit learning, decision making and sequence representation
• Contextual (implicit) component on memory stabilization in learning with respect to the complex network paradigm

Languages

• Hungarian – native
• English – advanced (TOEFL 280/5.5)
• French – basic
• German (4 years)
• Russian (5 years)
• Latin (4 years)
• Italian (1 year)

Awards

• 2nd prize, National Scientific Conference of Students, 2003
• Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, 2004
• Scientific Research Grant of the Psychology Faculty, ELTE, 2004
• Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, 2005
• Scientific Research Grant of the Psychology Faculty, ELTE, 2005

Skills

• Multivariate statistics, SPSS
• Presentation - experimenting software, Eye tracking
• 2 years work experience in cognitive neuropsychology research (OCD, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome, autism)

Affiliations

• 2005- member and reviewer of Cognitive Science Society
• 2005- chairman of ImpLab –association of young researchers of non-conscious cognition (www.implab.org)
• 2004- member of Link-Group – interdisciplinary network analyzing laboratory (www.weaklink.sote.hu)

Publications

1. Denes Toth, Balazs Aczel (2006). Analyzing Dynamics of Probability Learning. 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 26-29. July 2006. Vancouver, Canada (poster)
2. Németh D., Gönci D., Aczél B., Háden G., Orosz G., Ambrus G. G. (2005) A procedurális rendszerek és a mondatmegértés kapcsolata. In: Gervain Judit, Pléh Csaba (ed.) A láthatatlan nyelv. Gondolat (book chapter in press)
3. Tárnok Zsanett , Bognár Emese, Farkas Luca, Aczél Balázs, Gádoros Júlia (2006) A végrehajtó funkciók vizsgálata Tourette szindrómában és figyelemhiányos hiperaktivitás zavarban. In: Racsmány Mihály (ed.) Neuropszichológiai diagnosztikai módszerek. Akadémiai kiadó (book chapter in press)
4. Németh Dezső, Gönci Dániel, Aczél Balázs, Ambrus Géza Gergely, Háden Gábor Péter, Orosz Gábor (2005). Unconscious components of language. Conference on Cognition and its Origins. BMGE Budapest 23-25. Sept. 2005. (poster)
5. Aczél Balázs, Gönci Dániel (2005). Unity or Fractionality of Implicit
   Learning: A Methodological Aspect. In Bara, B. G., Barsalou, L.,
   Bucciarelli, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the CogSci2005 - 27th Annual Meeting of the
   Cognitive Science Society. pp. 51-56. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ
6. Aczél Balázs, Gönci Dániel, Németh Dezső (2005). Language and learning: alike in nonconsciousness. 13th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 11-14 August 2005. Lund, Sweden (presentation)
7. Németh D., Gönci D., Aczél B. (2005). The relationship between implicit learning and sentence processing. 14th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. 31st Aug. - 3rd Sept. 2005. Leiden, Holland (presentation)
8. Németh D., Gönci D., Aczél B., Háden G., Orosz G., Ambrus G. G. (2005). A procedurális rendszerek és a mondatmegértés kapcsolata. In: Gervain Judit, Pléh Csaba (Eds.) A láthatatlan nyelv. Gondolat. /chapter about the procedural systems in sentence processing/
9. Háden Gábor Péter, Orosz Gábor, Ambrus Géza Gergely, Gönczi Dániel, Aczél Balázs, Németh Dezső (2004) Az implicit tanulás és nyelvi képességek kapcsolata. Szegedi Pszichológiai Tanulmányok I. 43-69. /On the relationship of implicit learning and language skills/
10. Aczél Balázs (2004). A végrehajtó működés károsodásának vizsgálata hiperaktív (ADHD) gyerekeken a Rey-féle komplex ábrateszt segítségével. Tudomány és Lélek VII. 10. 3-29. /On the defects of executive function of ADHD children/
11. Tárnok Zsanett, Bognár Emese, Farkas Luca, Aczél Balázs, Gádoros Júlia A végrehajtó funkciók vizsgálata gyermekkori neuropszichiátriai kórképekben XII. Conference of the Hungarian Psychiatric Society. 26-29. January 2005. Budapest (poster on the analysis of the executive functions of neuropsychiatric patients)
12. Tarnok, Z., Aczel, B., Farkas, L., Bognar, E., Gadoros, J. Common Frontostriatal Pathology in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Pre-conference Workshop on Developmental Psychopathology. 10-11 July 2004. Ghent, Belgium (poster)
13. Tárnok, Z., Bognar, E., Farkas, L., Aczel, B., Gadoros, J. Executive dysfunction in tourette’s syndrome and the effect of tic severity. 4th International Scientific Symposium on Tourette Syndrome 25-27. June 2004. Cleveland, Ohio (poster)
14. Tárnok, Z., Bognár, E., Farkas, L., Aczél, B., Gádoros, J. Frontostriatal pathology in two neurodevelopmental disorders. APA 157th Annual Meeting May 1-6. 2004. New York (poster)
15. Tárnok Zsanett, Bognár Emese, Farkas Luca, Aczél Balázs, Gádoros, Júlia The effect of tic severity on executive functions in Tourette syndrome. APA 157th Annual Meeting May 1-6. 2004. New York (poster)
16. Aczél, B., Gádoros, J., Bognár, E., Tárnok, Z. Frontostriatal pathology in neurodevelopmental disorders. Aspects of cognitive and neural plasticity. Neuropsychology and psycholinguistics research group of the HAS and the Center for Cognitive Science of BME workshop 23-24. May 2003. Balatonvilágos (presentation)

Social activities

• 2004 Student member of the Committee of Ethical Issues of the Faculty
• 2003-2004 Chairman of the Committee of Interior Issues, Student Union
• 2003-2004 Student member of the Faculty Assembly
• 2002-2003 Member of the Student Union Assembly2002-2003 Student representative of the Department of Psychology, ELTE, Budapest

Hobby

• genealogy
• hiking
• photography
• classical music