Gabor Brody

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I am a Research Scientist and Lecturer at
affiliated with the
Department of Psychology (primary)
Department of Linguistics (by courtesy)
Program in Cognitive Science

My work explores infants' and children's (and adults) ability to keep track of and communicate about objects, concepts, and agents. I also enjoy working on a variety of questions having to do with the relationship between 'meaning' and psychology. I am a sucker for the belief that minds are not big uniform blobs.

Before Yale I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Brown Language and Thought Lab working with Roman Feiman. I defended my dissertation in 2020 at the Cogntive Development Center of Central European University advised by Gergely Csibra and Agnes Melinda Kovacs. During my Phd I also did research visits at the Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies and at RICO (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). I obtained my Masters and Bachelors degrees at ELTE in Budapest, Hungary.

mail [at] gaborbrody.com

You can download my CV here.

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Scientists and Researchers!!

In the pipeline

Revencu, B., Pomiechowska, B., Brody, G., & Csibra, G. (manuscript). Infants accept arbitrary objects as ad-hoc symbols. (preprint)

Brody, G., Azar, K., Keil, F. (under review). Speeded judgments reveal a flexible, not default, system of possibility representations. (email for ms)

Brody, G., Mazalik, P., & Feiman, R. (in press). Object perception encodes mutually exclusive possibilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (preprint)

Aravind, A., & Brody, G. (in press). Pragmatic Development. In The Cambridge Companion to Child Syntax. Cambridge University Press.(preprint)

Publications

Brody, G., & Csibra, G. (2025). Discourse referents in infancy. Psychological Review. (preprint / link)

Brody, G., Feiman, R., & Aravind, A. (2024). Why do children think words are mutually exclusive? Psychological Science, 35(12), 1315-1324. (preprint / link)

Pomiechowska, B., Brody, G., Téglás, E., & Kovács, Á. M. (2024). Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121(29), e2315149121. (link)

Brody, G., & Feiman, R. (2024). Mapping words to the world: Adults, but not children, understand how mismatching descriptions refer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(4), 1053-1065. (preprint / link)

Brody, G., Mazalik, P., & Feiman, R. (2024). Object files encode possible object identities, but not possible locations. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1555-1561.

Revencu, B., Pomiechowska, B., Brody, G., & Csibra, G. (2024). Fifteen-month-olds accept arbitrary shapes as symbols of familiar kind tokens. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 4110-4116.

Brody, G., Asherov, D., Rouillard, V., & Aravind, A. (2024). Evaluating the effectiveness of AI source disclosure in human-AI communication. An MIT Exploration of Generative AI. (link)

Brody, G., & Feiman, R. (2024). Polysemy does not exist, at least not in the relevant sense. Mind & Language, 39(2), 179-200. (preprint / link)

Brody, G., Revencu, B., & Csibra, G. (2023). Images of objects are interpreted as symbols: A case study of automatic size measurement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(4), 1146-1157. (link)

Brody, G., Oláh, K., Király, I., & Bíró, S. (2022). Individuation of agents based on psychological properties in 10-month-old infants. Infancy, 27(2), 350-370. (link)

Pomiechowska, B., Brody, G., Csibra, G., & Gliga, T. (2021). Twelve-month-olds disambiguate new words using mutual-exclusivity inferences. Cognition, 213, 104691. (link)

Elekes, F., Brody, G., Halász, E., & Király, I. (2016). Enhanced encoding of the co-actor’s target stimuli during a shared non-motor task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(12), 2376-2389. (link)

Oláh, K., Elekes, F., Brody, G., & Király, I. (2014). Social category formation is induced by cues of sharing knowledge in young children. PLOS ONE, 9(7), e101680. (link)

Dissertation

Brody, G. (2020). Indexing Objects in Vision and Communication [Doctoral dissertation, Central European University]. CEU Academic Repository. (link)

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