Personal

• E-mail: [email protected]
• Web: http://www.implab.hu/Balazs_Aczel

Education

• 2006-2009 PhD, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK (thesis: Attention and Awareness in Human Learning and Decision Making)
• 2001-2006 MA, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (dissertation: Strategy Analysis of Probability Learning)

Scientific Interest

• Intuition, feedback-based decision making, learning environment of biased decisions;
• Determinants and predictors of hedonic choices;
• Attention and awareness in human learning and decision making;
• Experience-based learning and experience management.

Employment

• 09.2011 – Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  lecturer
• 02.2011 – KGRE University, Budapest, Hungary
  lecturer
• 10.2009 - 09.2010 Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Uni. of Cambridge, research associate (research of attention and awareness in second language acquisition)
• 01.2004 - 06.2004 Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of Psychology, Budapest, research assistant (study of executive functions in developmental disorders)
• 04.2003 - 12.2003 Vadaskert Foundation for Children's Mental Health
  research assistant (cognitive neuropsychological assessment of OCD, ADHD, TS, ASD)
  

Affiliations

• 2008- member, Experimental Psychology Society
• 2008- member, The British Psychological Society
• 2007- 2009 visiting researcher, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
• 2005-2010 president of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association

Skills and Experience

• Programming languages: RealBasic, Visual Basic, E-Prime
• eye-tracking (Tobii)
• 4 years supervision teaching experience, organising international workshops

Awards

• Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, 2007, 2008
• Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, 2004, 2005 (top 0.8%)
• Scientific Research Grant of the Psychology Faculty, ELTE, 2004, 2005

Publications

Articles:

• Aczel, B., Lukacs, B., Komlos, J., Aitken, M. (accepted for publication). Unconscious intuition or conscious analysis? Critical issues for the Deliberation-without-Attention paradigm. Journal of Judgment and Decision Making.
• Brown, J., Aczel, B., Jimenez, L., Kaufman, S. B., & Plaisted Grant, K. (2010). Intact Implicit Learning in Autism Spectrum Conditions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(3), 1789–1812.
• Aczel, B. (2008). Managing Intuition I.: Why does intuition need to be educated? Periodicals of Implicit Cognition, 3, 1-11.
• Aczel, B. (2007). Nonconscious thinking. Periodicals of Implicit Cognition. 2, 9-10.
• Toth, D., Aczel, B. (2006). Analyzing Dynamics of Probability Learning. Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. p. 2618. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Aczél B., Gönci D. (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
• Háden G. P., Orosz G., Ambrus G. G., Gönczi D., Aczél B., Németh D. (2004) Az implicit tanulás és nyelvi képességek kapcsolata. Szegedi Pszichológiai Tanulmányok I. 43-69.
• Aczél B. (2004). A végrehajtó működés károsodásának vizsgálata hiperaktív (ADHD) gyerekeken a Rey-féle komplex ábrateszt segítségével. Tudomány és Lélek VII. 10, 3-29.

Book chapters:

• Tárnok Zs. , Bognár E., Farkas L., Aczél B., Gádoros J. (2006) A végrehajtó funkciók vizsgálata Tourette szindrómában és figyelemhiányos hiperaktivitás zavarban. In: Racsmány Mihály (ed.) Neuropszichológiai diagnosztikai módszerek. Akadémiai kiadó.
• 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.

Non-academic Interest

• fencing
• hiking
• genealogy
• classical music