Research
I am a cognitive psychologist with a special interest in the neuroscience of sleep. I obtained my Ph.D. in 2014 from the Cognitive Science Department of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. My doctoral research focused on the neurophysiological aspects of nightmare disorder and highlighted the key mechanism of hyperarousal in the pathophysiology of frequent nightmares. Although I continue the research activity on nightmare disorder, my research area has become broader, including topics such as the microstructure of REM sleep, sleep and memory, lucid dreaming, and, more recently, the role of mind-wandering in information processing. I work mostly with sleep EEG, along with cognitive tests and psychometric measures, to study the complex nature of sleep and its role in daytime functioning. The main focus of my FNRS-CQ project is to study the potential role of mind-wandering in information processing, more specifically, in probabilistic learning.
