Lilla Magyari
Associate Professor
Contact
Telephone: 51831388
Email: lilla.magyari@uis.no
Room: KA A-204
Department
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
About me
My research focuses on the neurocognitive mechanisms and functional processes in different contexts of language use. I am especially interested in the mental processes during reading literary fiction, and during every-day verbal interactions. Some of my research also involves the fundamental issues of language evolution and the similarities and differences between how animals and humans understand language. In my research, I use a wide range of methods from behavioural techniques (reaction time and questionnaires) to electrophysiology and eye-tracking. Between 2020 and 2024 I was a postdoc researcher at the Norwegian Reading Centre (UiS) working on my MSCA fellowship project (FictDial). The project examined the role of dialogues in literary fiction in relation to the reading experience and whether and how we acquire social knowledge by reading literary dialogues. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No. 845343.
Between 2018 and 2020, I was a research fellow in the MTA-ELTE Neuroethology of Communication "Lendület" Research Group at ELTE University in Budapest where I studied canine cognition using (and implementing) non-invasive electrophysiological methods. Between 2014 and 2018 I was an Assistant Professor at the Department of General Psychology at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest. I conducted my PhD studies at the Language & Cognition Department of the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, and also worked as a research assistant in the FieldTrip (a toolbox for analysis for EEG/MEG data) development team.
For my full list of publications, visit my ResearchGate profile.