Peter Simor

Peter Simor (1982) MA (ELTE, Hungary), is a psychologist and sleep researcher, member of the ImpLab Association.

Education

 * 2012- research assistant, Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
 * 2009-2012 PhD student, Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
 * 2001-2007 MA, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University], Budapest, Hungary

Scientific Interest

 * Sleep and emotional regulation;
 * Nightmare disorder and other parasomnias;
 * Quantitative EEG analysis;
 * The neurocognitive aspects of sleep and dreaming;
 * Sleep and memory consolidation;

Skills & Experience

 * Programming languages: MatLab, E-Prime
 * Sleep staging and EEG analysis
 * Statistics (SPSS)

Awards & Grants

 * Julesz Béla 'Grant for the Outstanding Student of the Faculty'
 * Erasmus Scholarship for Professional Training at the Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience, University of Pablo de Olávide. Seville, Spain, Sept-Dec, 2011.
 * The developmental and psychophysiological emergence of dreams and nightmares: state-dependent and state-independent fronto-cortical disconnectivity: 2010 Research Grant of the BIAL Foundation.
 * Dreaming style and cognitive performance: sleep and emotional information processing from a neuropsychological and quantitative EEG perspective: The 2009 Research Grant Award of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and The Dreamscience Foundation.
 * Emotional Regulation in Dreaming, Nightmares and Bad dreams in Borderline Personality Disorder: 2007 IASD Student Award of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

Selected Publications

 * Simor, P., Horváth, K., Ujma, P., Gombos, F., Bódizs, R. (2013). Fluctuations between sleep and wakefulness: wake-like features indicated by increased EEG alpha power during different sleep stages in nightmare disorder. Biological Psychology (in press).


 * Simor, P., Bódizs R, Horváth K, Ferri R. : Disturbed dreaming and the instability of sleep: altered NREM sleep microstructure in subjects with frequent nightmares as revealed by the cyclic alternating pattern. SLEEP,36(3), 413-419.


 * Simor, P., Horváth, K., Gombos, F., Bódizs, R. (2012) Disturbed dreaming and sleep quality: altered sleep architecture in subjects with frequent nightmares. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 262(8), 687-696.


 * Simor, P., Pajkossy, P., Horváth, K., Bódizs, R. (2012) Impaired executive functions in subjects with frequent nightmares as reflected by performance in different neuropsychological tasks Brain and Cognition, 78, 274-283.

Collaborators

 * Bodizs Sleep Lab:||[http:\\www.bodizs-lab.hu]

Hobby

 * Literature
 * Aikido
 * South-American culture