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Bence Neszmélyi
Postdoc
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Brainlab studying predictive processes in social interactions. I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies in Psychology in Budapest, Hungary. I obtained my PhD under the supervision of János Horváth at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics while working as a Junior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Natural Sciences. After finishing my PhD, I worked as a lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (2020–2021), followed by postdoctoral positions with Roland Pfister at the University of Würzburg (2021–2024) and with Moritz Wurm at CIMeC in Rovereto (2025–2026). In March 2026, I joined Brainlab as a Beatriu de Pinós fellow.
My research focuses on interactions between the motor and sensory systems. During my PhD, I studied self-generated sounds, examining how predictions derived from actions influence the processing of auditory consequences and how expectations about these effects contribute to action control. In later work, I extended this line of research to social interactions, focusing on the relationship between actions and the social consequences of these actions. My studies address questions such as how predictive processes in social and non-social contexts compare, how anticipated social action consequences influence action planning and monitoring, and how agency and responsibility are attributed in situations involving multiple interacting agents. In my current project at Brainlab, my goal is to develop interactive experimental paradigms that capture key features of real-life social interactions while maintaining the experimental control necessary to study predictive processing using behavioral and neurophysiological methods.
My publications can be found on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qZa_oJsAAAAJ&hl=en
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