Attila Keresztes

Attila Keresztes (1979) MA (Corvinus, Hungary), is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, president of the ImpLab Association.

Education

 * 2006 -	Graduate School in Pychology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Cognitive Science, Hungary, Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Supervisor: Mihály Racsmány, Research program: Mechanisms of human forgetting
 * 2005 Jan – 2006 Dec Basic Seminar of Psychoanalysis – accredited course of the Hungarian Psychoanalitic Association, Budapest, Hungary
 * 1999 – 2006 Undergraduate studies and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology Master Programs, Faculty of Psychology, Eötvös Lóránd Science University, Budapest, Hungary
 * 1998 - 2004 Master in Political Science and Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and State Administration (now Corvinus University), Hungary

Scientific Interest

 * Remembering and forgetting in humans;
 * Cognitive neuroscience of memory;
 * The effect of testing on memory retrieval;
 * Consolidation of memories;
 * Philosophy of science, scientific methods and writing, education.

Employment

 * 2010-present Junior research fellow, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Cognitive Science
 * 2009-2010 Research Assistant, Hungarian Academy of Sciences-Budapest University of Technology and Economics Research Group on Cognitive Science
 * 2006-2007 Analyst, Hewitt Associates (Hungary)

Organizational Activity

 * 2009- Secretary of the Central European Cognitive Science Association.
 * 2009- Managing organiser of the Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science Series
 * 2008- Organizing regular departmental seminars at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Cognitive Science

Memberships

 * 2012- member of the Association for Psychological Science
 * 2009- member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
 * 2011- president of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association
 * 2010-2011 secretary of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association
 * 2008-2010 member of the Cognitive Science Society
 * 2005-2010 member of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association

Skills & Experience

 * Programming skills: Presentation, Matlab
 * fMRI, analyses using SPM8
 * eye-tracking with SMI eye-tracking devices
 * organising international workshops, conferences, writing grant applications, 5 years supervision experience

Awards & Grants

 * 2012 Feb and May support for research at the University of Regensburg, Germany, from the grant of Gyula Kovács: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KO 3918/1-1).
 * 2010 July CEEPUS-scholarship, University of Vienna, Austria (for dissertation writing)
 * 2010 April EBBS travel fellowship to the Ararat Memory meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, April 5-10
 * 2009 Sep – Oct support for research at University of Regensburg, Germany, from the grant of Gyula Kovács: DAAD-MÖB (P-MÖB/821)
 * 2009 Jun, 21-27. SUN scholarship, Central European University (CEU) (for the course entitled “Memory and the Mind: Learning and representing structures in the brain”.)
 * 2004 Fall Erasmus scholarship, Faculty of Psychology, Université Paris X. – Nanterre, France

Journal articles

 * Zakariás, L., Keresztes, A., Demeter, G., Lukács, A. (2013) A specific pattern of executive dysfunctions in transcortical motor aphasia. Aphasiology. (ahead-of-print), 1-14. (link)
 * Keresztes, A., Kaiser, D., Kovács, G., Racsmány, M (2013) Testing Promotes Long-Term Learning via Stabilizing Activation Patterns in a Large Network of Brain Areas. Cerebral Cortex (link)
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2013) Interference resolution in retrieval-induced forgetting: Behavioral evidence for a nonmonotonic relationship between interference and forgetting. Memory and Cognition. (link)
 * Racsmány, M., Keresztes, A., Pajkossy, P., Demeter, Gy. (2012) Mirroring Intentional Forgetting in a Shared-Goal Learning Situation. PLoS ONE, 7(1)(html)
 * Racsmány, M., Conway, M. A., Keresztes, A., Krajcsi, A. (2012) Inhibition and Interference in the Think No-Think Task. Memory and Cognition, 40 (2), 168-176. (link)
 * Kemény, F., Keresztes, A. (2008) A nem tudatos ismeretszerzés idegrendszeri alapjai. Pedagógusképzés, 6, 25-42.
 * Keresztes, A.(2006) Optimality and Cognition 2.: Evolutionary Economics and Implicit Cognition. Periodicals of Implicit Cognition 1 (5), 1-3. (pdf)

Conference abstracts

 * Demeter, G., Keresztes, A., Harsányi, A., Csigó, K., Racsmány, M. (2012) Obsessed not to forget: no retrieval induced forgetting in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Learning and Perception, Supplement 4, 23.
 * Zakariás, L., Keresztes, A., Demeter, G., Kemény, F., Lukács, A. (2012) Executive Functions in Transcortical Motor and Conduction Aphasia. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 17 (2), 137-140. (pdf)
 * Keresztes, A., Kaiser, D., Nagy, K., Kovács, G., Racsmány, M (2012) Neuroimaging evidences of testing effect. Learning and Perception, Supplement 4, 33.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2011) Common mechanisms of test enhanced learning and retrieval induced forgetting. Learning and Perception, Supplement 3, 25-26.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2010) Episodic component in inhibition of return of attention. Learning and Perception, Supplement 2, 29.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2009) Retrieval induces forgetting even when only two items share a cue: a more direct method to test inhibitory models of forgetting. Proceedings of the 16th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Krakow, Poland, September 2-5, 2009.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2009) Investigating the role of competition in retrieval induced forgetting through reaction time analysis. Learning and Perception, Supplement 1, 26.

Talks

 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2013) Exploring consequences of interference resolution during retrieval: boundary conditions of retrieval-induced forgetting, 18th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Budapest, Hungary
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2013) Positive and negative effects of testing: the role of cognitive control during retrieval, invited talk, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2010) Exploring properties of retrieval induced forgetting: how cues and retrieval effort can influence competitor forgetting. Is forgetting an inhibitory process? Discussing the inhibition theory of forgetting workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2010) Interference resolution in retrieval induced forgetting: a threshold-like non-inhibitory process? Meeting of the Leeds Memory Group and the Budapest Memory Group, Leeds, UK
 * Racsmány M., Conway M., Keresztes, A. (2009) Impaired and enhanced memory for the same associative link following think/no-think procedure. 16th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Krakow, Poland
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2008) The role competition in memory inhibition. Workshop on control and episode. Budapest, Hungary
 * Keresztes, A. (2006) Memory inhibition as a moderator of explicitness. 1st Annual Implicit Laboratoy Association Workshop. Budapest, Hungary

Posters

 * Zakariás, L., Keresztes, A., Demeter, G., Kemény, F., Lukács, A. (2012) Executive functions in transcortical motor and conduction aphasia, Science of Aphasia, Gröningen, the Netherlands
 * Demeter, G., Keresztes, A., Harsányi, A., Csigó, K., Racsmány, M. (2012) Obsessed not to forget: no retrieval induced forgetting in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). DuCog IV, Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia
 * Keresztes, A., Kaiser, D., Nagy, K., Kovács, G., Racsmány, M (2012) Neuroimaging evidences of testing effect. DuCog IV, Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2011) Common mechanisms of test enhanced learning and retrieval induced forgetting. DuCog III, Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia
 * Keresztes, A.., Racsmány, M. (2011) Interference resolution in retrieval induced forgetting: A cue-dependent threshold-like process. ICOM 5, International Conference on Memory, York, UK.
 * Szőllősi, A., Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M., Conway, M. A. (2011) Day-time effects in the consolidation of autobiographical events. ICOM 5, International Conference on Memory, York, UK.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2010) Episodic component in inhibition of return of attention. DuCog II, Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2010) Episodic component in inhibition of return of attention. Yerevan Memory Meeting, Yerevan, Armenia.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2009) Retrieval induces forgetting even when only two items share a cue: a more direct method to test inhibitory models of forgetting. ESCoP conference, Krakow, Poland.
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2009) Investigating the role of competition in retrieval induced forgetting through reaction time analysis. DuCog I, Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia
 * Keresztes, A., Racsmány, M. (2008) The contribution of inhibitory processes to interference resolution in memory retrieval. Neurocog, Ghent, Belgium.

Hobby

 * basketball
 * tenor of the Városminor Kamarakórus