Publications

Impact factor papers

Magyari, L., Pléh, Cs., Forgács, B. (2022). The Hungarian hubris syndrome. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0273226.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0273226

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, G., Elek, L., Üllei, Zs., & Király, I. (2022). Semantic Systems Are Mentalistically Activated for and by Social Partners. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 4866. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08306-w

Forgács, B. (2020). An Electrophysiological Abstractness Effect for Metaphorical Meaning Making. eNeuro 7(5), 1-12.

https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0052-20.2020

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Baross, J., & Király, I. (2020). Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100783.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100783

Forgács, B., Bardolph, M., Amsel, B. D., DeLong, K. A., & Kutas, M. (2015). Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9(28).

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00028

Forgács, B., Lukács, Á., & Pléh, Cs. (2014). Lateralized processing of novel metaphors: disentangling figurativeness and novelty. Neuropsychologia, 56, 101-109.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.003

Forgács, B., Bohrn, I., Baudewig, J., Hofmann, M. J., Pléh, Cs., & Jacobs, A. M. (2012). Neural correlates of combinatorial semantic processing of literal and figurative noun noun compound words. Neuroimage, 63(3), 1432-1442.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.029

Peer-reviewed, non-impact factor papers, book chapters, book reviews, etc.

Forgács, B., Pléh, Cs. (2022). The Fluffy Metaphors of Climate Science. In: Wuppuluri, S., Grayling, A.C. (eds) Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities. Synthese Library, vol 453. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_22

Forgács, B. (2022). A testesültség mint az elme átfogó modelljének kognitív- és idegtudományi korlátai [The Cognitive and Neuroscientific Limitations of Embodiment as the Comprehensive Model of the Human Mind]. In Kondor Zs. (Ed.), A megtestesült elme (pp. 154-178). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789634547624

Forgács, B. (2022). The Pragmatic Functions of Metaphorical Language. In G. Csibra, J. Gervain, & K. Kovács (Eds.), A Life in Cognition - Studies in Cognitive Science in Honor of Csaba Pléh(pp. 41–57). Springer. (Preprint) Final version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66175-5_4

Ladányi, E., Gervain, J., & Forgács, B. (2021). Nyelvfeldolgozás [Language Processing]. In Cs. Pléh (Ed.), A pszichológia kézikönyve. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. DOI:10.1556/9789634546399. (Preprint) Final version: https://mersz.hu/pleh-pszichologia-kezikonyv 

Forgács, B., & Pléh, Cs. (2021). Metafora hátán lovagol a sátán – avagy miért nem értjük meg a klímaváltozás valódi fenyegetését? [The Devil Is in the Metaphor – Why Are We Unable to Grasp the Real Threat of Climate Change?] Argumentum, 17, 581-603. DOI:10.34103/ARGUMENTUM/2021/30

Forgács, B. (2021). Book Review: A gravitáció mint szellem [Gravity as Geist]: Noam Chomsky: What Kind of Creatures Are We? Columbia University Press, New York, 2015. BUKSZ, 33(1), 23-28.

Forgács, B. (2020). Book Review: A pszichológiatörténet-írás pszichológiája [ The Psychology of Writing on Psychology History]: Csaba Pléh, Judit Mészáros, Valéria Csépe (Eds.): Writing Methods of History of Psychology and Hungarian History of Psychology. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2019 (In Hungarian). Magyar Tudomány, 181(3), 421-424.

Forgács, B., & Pléh, Cs. (2019). What Are You Thinking About Where? Syntactic Ambiguity Between Abstract Arguments and Concrete Adjuncts in Hungarian, Modulated by Concreteness. Psychology in Russia, 12(1), 67-78. DOI:10.11621/pir.2019.0105

Pléh, Cs., Forgács, B., & Fekete, I. (2017). The Effects of Gender Stereotypes in Hungarian University Students: Results of an Empirical Pilot-study (In Hungarian). In: M. Kovács (Ed.), Társadalmi nemek (pp. 103-115). Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó.

Forgács, B. (2016). Book Review: Metaforák metaforája [Metaphor of Metaphors]: Réka Szabó: Metaforák és szimbólumok. Oriold és Társai, Budapest, 2015 (In Hungarian). Magyar Tudomány, 177(5), 636-639.

Forgács, B. (2015). The metaphors of cognitive science and the brain (In Hungarian). Hungarian Psychological Review, 70(2), 395-404. DOI: 10.1556/0016.2015.70.2.6.

Forgács, B. (2015). Book Review: Csaba Pléh,  Ágnes Lukács (eds.): Pszicholingvisztika 1-2. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2014 (In Hungarian). Magyar Tudomány, 176(6), 763-765.

Forgács, B. (2014). Figures of Language in Cognitive Science in the Light of Figurative Language Processing in the Brain. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest. 

Forgács, B. (2014). Summary of PhD Thesis

Forgács, B. (2013). Brain and cognition in figurative language processing (In Hungarian). In: Pléh, Cs. (Ed.), General Linguistics Studies XXV (pp. 383-410). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

Forgács, B. (2013). The right hemisphere of cognitive science. In: Cs. Pléh, L. Gurova, and L. Ropolyi (Eds.), New Perspectives on the History of Cognitive Science (pp. 129-141).Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

Forgács, B. (2010). Book Review: Jerry A. Fodor: LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited, Oxford University Press US, 2008 (In Hungarian). Hungarian Psychological Review, 65(3), 555-563. DOI: 10.1556/MPSzle.65.2010.3.5

Forgács, B. (2009). Verbal metacommunication – Why a metaphorical mapping can be relevant? (In Hungarian) Hungarian Psychological Review, 64(3), 593-605. DOI:10.1556/MPSzle.64.2009.3.8

Forgács, B. (2009). Book Review: Tamás Demeter: Mentális fikcionalizmus. Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest, 2008 (In Hungarian). Hungarian Psychological Review, 64(4), 753–763. DOI: 10.1556/MPSzle.64.2009.4.7

Invited talks

Forgács, B. (2022). Is there psychological science with no folk psychology? Experimental investigations of infant mentalization. Invited talk at the conference “Mindreading without folk psychology”, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, October 28.

Forgács, B. (2022). A pszichológia örök témája: mi vajon a mentális reprezentáció formátuma? [The eternal question of psychology: What is the format of mental representations?]. Invited talk at the conference “Prezentációk a reprezentációkról” [Presentations on Representations] at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary October 24.

Forgács, B. (2022). Metaphors are abstract? Novel data and a novel model for metaphor processing. Invited on-line talk at UCL’s Pragmatics Seminar, London, UK, March 23.

Forgács, B. (2022). Newborns are sensitive to the communicative function of language. Invited on-line talk at the UniNE Cognitive Science Seminar, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, March 10.

Forgács, B. (2021). An electrophysiological abstractness effect for metaphorical meaning making. Invited talk at the Aphantasia Research Group Seminar, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary, April 16.

Forgács, B. (2020). An electrophysiological abstractness effect for metaphorical meaning making. Invited talk at the Affective Psychology Seminar, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, October 6.

Forgács, B. (2018). Babies’ understanding of understanding: ERPs at the intersection of social cognition & language comprehension. Invited talk at the Affective Psychology Seminar, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, March 27.

Forgács, B. (2017). Do babies know that we know that they know? TEDxDanubia talk, Budapest, Hungary, May 5. http://www.tedxdanubia.com/tedx-videok?performer=2854

Forgács, B. (2017). How babies use language to influence our thoughts? Invited talk at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Young Researchers' Club, Budapest, Hungary, September 21.

Forgács, B. (2016). Babies’ understanding of understanding: ERPs at the intersection of social cognition & language comprehension. Invited talk at the Cognitive Psychology Department of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, September 14.

Forgács, B. (2016). Figures of Speech in the Brain: The Role of Metaphoricity, Familiarity, Concreteness, and Lateralization in Language Comprehension. Invited talk at the Brain & Language Research Institute (BLRI), LPL - CNRS & Université d'Aix-Marseille (BLRI), Aix-en-Provence, France, December 9.

Forgács, B. (2015). What is the “point” in figures of speech? New perspectives on the neuroscience of metaphor. Invited talk at the L2C2 CNRS Université Lyon 1 UMR5304 - Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France, May 19.

Forgács, B. (2013). Talkative ERPs – Abstract or Concrete is the Metaphor? Invited talk at the Psychological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, March 8.

Conference talks / on-line presentations

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, Gy., Üllei Kovács, Zs., Elek, L., & Király, I. (2021). Is Semantic Processing Grounded in Mentalization? On-line paper presentation at DUCOG (12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 18-21.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, Gy., Üllei Kovács, Zs., Elek, L., & Király, I. (2021). Pulling Apart the Social N400: The Attribution of Comprehension During Communication. On-line paper presentation at XPRAG.it 2020(21) (4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference). Turin, Italy, July 8-9.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, Gy., Üllei Kovács, Zs., Elek, L., & Király, I. (2021). The Electrophysiology of Semantic Processing in Mentalistic Social Situations. On-line paper presentation at ESCAN-21 (Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience). Budapest, Hungary, June 23-26.

Forgács, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, Gy., & Gervain, J. (2021). Humans are sensitive to the communicative dimension of language at birth. On-line paper presentation at ESCAN-21 (Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience). Budapest, Hungary, June 23-26.

Forgács, B. (2019). The historical role of folk-psychology, the attribution of consciousness and emotion in the investigation of consciousness. Paper presented at ESHHS (38thAnnual Conference for European Society of the History of Human Sciences). Budapest, Hungary, July 4-6.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, Gy.,& Gervain, J. (2018). 14-month-olds track how others understand words. Paper presented at BCCCD 2018 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 4-6.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Gervain, J. (2016). Baby steps in pragmatic inferences: neural markers of comprehending others. Paper presented at the XPrag Berlin “Workshop on the role of pragmatic factors in child language processing”. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, May 19-20.

Forgács, B., Téglás E., Frankenhuis, W. E., Watson, J. S., & Gergely, Gy.(2014). Early sensitivity to social contingencies in infancy (In Hungarian). Paper presented at the XXIIIrdAnnual Meeting of the Hungarian Psychological Association. Marosvásárhely / Targu Mures, Romania, May 15-17.

Forgács, B., Bardolph, M. D., Amsel, B. D., DeLong, K. A., & Kutas, M. (2013). ERPs Talk: Are Metaphors Abstract or Concrete?Paper presented at ESCOP (18th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology). Budapest, Hungary, August 29 - September 1.

Forgács, B. (2012). How embodied are metaphors? Paper presented at the conference “The embodied foundation of human communicative skills”. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of the Humanities, Denmark, November 21-23.

Forgács, B., Bohrn, I., Baudewig, J., Hofmann, M. J., Pléh, Cs., & Jacobs, A. M. (2012). Which hemisphere is the right one for metaphor comprehension? The right hemisphere theory of metaphor brought into question by neuroimaging results. Paper presented at UK-CLC (4thUK Cognitive Linguistics Conference). London, United Kingdom, July 10-12.

Forgács, B. (2010). Is it really semantic distance that turns the right hemisphere on? Paper presented at RaAM (8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 30 - July 3.

Forgács, B. (2010). The crosstalk of psychology’s metaphors (In Hungarian). Paper presented at the XIXthAnnual Meeting of the Hungarian Psychological Association. Pécs, Hungary, May 27-29.

Forgács, B. (2009). The Right Hemisphere of Cognitive Science. Paper presented at ICHST (XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology). Budapest, Hungary, July 28 - August 2.

Forgács, B. (2009). A neural perspective on the history of psychology: do shifts of approach reflect shifts of neural dispositions? Paper presented at ESHHS (28thAnnual Conference of European Society of the History of Human Sciences). Budapest, Hungary, July 21-25.

Conference posters

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Gervain, J., Berkes, N., Szigeti, A., & Király, I. (2024). Does the semantic system function mentalistically right from its developmental onset? Poster at BCCCD-24 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 4-6.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., & Király, I. (2023). The development of the social N400: Semantic systems are utilized to mentalize from infancy to adulthood. Digital poster at BCCCD-23 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 5-7.

Ilyés, A., Paulik, B., Munding, M., Forgács, B., & Keresztes, A. (2023). A high-resolution fMRI investigation of the role of hippocampal pattern separation of conceptually similar memory traces. Poster at CNS (30th Anniversary Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society). San Francisco, USA, March 25-28.

Munding, M., Ilyés, A. R., Forgács, B. (2023). Sentence context manipulation’s effect on semantic processing of metaphors (an EEG study). Poster presented at DUCOG (14th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 18-21.

Forgács, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, Gy., & Gervain, J. (2022). Newborns take into account the communicative dimension of language. Digital poster at BCCCD-22 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 10-14.

Munding, M., Ilyés, A. R., Forgács, B. (2022). The effects of semantic combinatorics on the emotional dimensions of language. Poster presented at DUCOG (13th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 19-22.

Forgács, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, Gy., & Gervain, J. (2021). Humans at birth appreciate the communicative power of language. Virtual presentation at DUCOG (12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 18-21.

Magyari, L., Forgács, B., & Király, I. (2021). Infant’s perception of speaker-selection in multi-party conversations. Virtual presentation at DUCOG (12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 18-21.

Munding, M., Ilyés, A., Forgács, B. (2021). The Effects of Sentence Context on Imageability and Concreteness of Metaphors. Virtual presentation at DUCOG (12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 18-21.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, Gy., & Király, I. (2021). The pragmatics of mentalization in preverbal infants. Virtual presentation at BCCCD-21 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 4-8.

Magyari, L., Forgács, B., & Király, I. (2021). Infant’s perception of speaker-selection in multi-party conversations. Virtual presentation at BCCCD-21 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 4-8.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, Gy., Üllei Kovács, Zs., Elek, L., & Király, I. (2020). The social N400 effect: when semantic processing enters social cognition. Digital poster presented at BCCCD-20 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 9-11.

Forgács, B., Ilyés, A. (2019). Do metaphors bring along their literal concrete meaning? A divided visual field ERP investigation of figurative expressions. Poster at DUCOG XI (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 23-26.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, Gy., Király, I., & Gervain, J. (2018). Preverbal Infants’ Theory-Of-Mind on Other People’s Linguistic Understanding. Poster presented at LCICD 2018 (Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development), Lancaster, UK, September 5-7.

Baross, J., Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, Gy., & Király, I. (2018). The role of semantic categories in infants’ false-belief understanding. Poster at DUCOG X (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 24-27.

Üllei Kovács, Zs., Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, Gy., Elek, L., & Király, I. (2018). The role of Theory of Mind functions in language comprehension in adults. Poster at DUCOG X (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 24-27.

Forgács, B. (2017). How can novel metaphors be more concrete than concrete expressions? Poster presented at DUCOG IX (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 25-28.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Gervain, J. (2016). Understanding others’ (mis)understanding by 14-month-olds. Poster presented at ICIS 2016 (International Conference on Infant Studies). New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 26-28.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Gervain, J. (2016). The role of Theory of Mind functions in language comprehension in infancy. Poster presented at DUCOG VIII (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 28 - May 1.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Gervain, J. (2016). Can a False Belief evoke an N400? Poster presented at BCCCD 2016 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 7-9.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., & Csibra, G. (2015). The unsmart infant: language comprehension depends on contextual and situational cues in 9-moth-old infants. Poster presented at DUCOG VII (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 21-23.

Forgács, B., Csibra, G., & Gergely, Gy. (2015). Electrophysiological indicators of word recognition of 9-month-old infants. Poster presented at BCCCD 2015 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 8-10.

Forgács, B., Téglás E., Frankenhuis, W. E., Watson, J. S., & Gergely, Gy. (2014). Infants’ detection of perfectly and socially contingent reactivity. Poster presented at DUCOG VI (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 22-24.

Forgács, B., Téglás E., Frankenhuis, W. E., Watson, J. S., & Gergely, Gy. (2014). Perception of social contingency in early infancy.Poster presented at BCCCD 2014 (Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development). Budapest, Hungary, January 9-11.

Bardolph, M. D., Forgács, B., DeLong, K. A., Amsel, B. D., & Kutas, M. (2013). Metaphor and Concreteness: an ERP Study. Poster at CNS (The 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society). San Francisco, California, USA, April 13-16.

Forgács, B., Bohrn, I., Pléh, Cs., Jacobs, A. M. (2011). Long distances within single words: bridging the metaphor gap. Poster presented at the workshop “Processing and appreciating creative figurative language”. Heidelberg University, Germany, May 11-12.

Forgács, B. (2010). Metaphors in conversations: a conceptual or a pragmatic trick? Poster presented at DUCOG II (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 6-9.

Forgács, B. (2009). Scientific and Everyday Metaphors of Psychology. Poster presented at the DUCOG I (Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science). Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 22-24.