CRC Seminar - Peter Simor (ULB): "Learning through distraction? The potential role of mind wandering in probabilistic learning"

Monday 9 Feb 2026, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Brussels

B-30/0-000 - Big meeting room (CRC)

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Bio: Peter Simor is a cognitive psychologist with a particular interest in the neuroscience of sleep. He obtained his PhD in 2014 from the Department of Cognitive Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His doctoral research focused on the neurophysiological mechanisms of nightmare disorder and highlighted the role of hyperarousal in the pathophysiology of frequent nightmares.

He later founded the Budapest Laboratory of Sleep Research, where he investigated a broad range of topics, including the neurophysiology of REM sleep, the interplay between chronotype, sleep, and mental health, sleep and memory, and lucid dreaming. He completed postdoctoral training within the framework of a Marie Curie–ULB Cofund Individual Fellowship at ULB–CRCN, where he currently works as an FNRS Research Fellow (Chercheur Qualifié). His current research focuses on the role of mind wandering in information processing, with a particular emphasis on probabilistic learning.

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