Orsolya Kanizsár

Post-doc

I studied cognitive- and developmental psychology at the Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary. My undergraduate dissertation examined the effects of oxytocin and social pre-sensitization on the social susceptibility of human infants and family dogs. During my MSc I investigated the development of autobiographical memory in human infants (Department of Psychology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary) and comparative and evolutionary aspects of social behavior and social learning in human infants and family dogs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Ethology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary). After finishing my MSc, I worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology (ICNP, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) where I was a member of the Comparative Behavioral Research Group, led by Jòzsef Topàl. The work involved assisting comparative experiments, such as investigating social cognition and visual perception in human infants and family dogs. Currently, I am a PhD student at the University of Padova working under the supervision of Lieta Marinelli. I am interested in visual cognition of family dogs, including motion detection, the ability of motion prediction and the cognitive mechanisms of processing biological motion.

Where can you find me:

via email: orsolya.kanizsar@studenti.unipd.it

via cell phone: 049 790284

in the lab: in Piazza del Donatore di Sangue 4, Legnaro (PD)