Personal data

• Date of birth: April 4, 1974.
• One child: Sylvia Nadin.
• Citizenship: Hungarian, permanent US resident
  

• Visual perception and development and their neural underpinnings
• Visual attention and working memory in infants

    2003                 Ph.D. in Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    2001                 Fellow of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    2001                 M.S. in Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    1999                 Fellow of Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    1998                 M.A. in Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
    1995-1996        Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, two semesters in Mathematics
    1994-1998        Invisible College (an institution offering British-type tutorial education), areas covered: evolutionary psychology, connectionism, psycholinguistics)

    Teaching Experience

        Courses taught:

• UMass Boston, Psychology Department, 2003 Fall - present
• Infancy and Child Development (Psych 241)
• Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior (Psych 641), Graduate Seminar
• Introduction to Cognitive Science (Psych L271/CS L271)
• Experimental Methods: Learning and Perception (Psych 475)
• Rutgers University, Department of Psychology:
  • Perception, Graduate Seminar, 2002 Spring (co-taught with Ilona Kovacs)
  • Sensation and Perception Laboratory, 1999 Fall - 2003 Spring (8 semesters)
• University of Szeged, Department of Psychology, Hungary:
  • "Early development of vision and attention" Graduate Class, 2001 Spring
  • "Two visual pathways" Graduate Seminar, 2000 Spring
• Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Teaching Assistant:
  • General Psychology, 1998 Spring
  • History of Psychology, Graduate Seminar, 1998 Spring       

• NIH R15 research grant: “Infants’ visual working memory tested with salience-mapped objects”
  Role: Co-Investigator, PI: Erik Blaser
  Amount awarded: $230,990
  Grant period: 7/1/2007-6/30/2010
  
• UMass President's Science and Technology Grant
  Role: PI, Co-Investigators: Erik Blaser, Alice Carter
  Amount awarded: $125,000
  
• Proposal Development Grant, UMass Boston, March, 2006
• Early Career Researcher Travel Award, International Conference for Infancy Studies, Kyoto, June 2006
• Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant, UMass Boston, March 2004; March 2008
• Graduate Fellowship from the Laboratory of Vision Research, Rutgers University (1998/99)
• Walter C. Russell Tuition Scholarship (1998/99)
• Central European Exchange Program for University Students (CEEPUS) Scholarship, University of Vienna, Austria, 1997 Spring

Leslie, A. & Kaldy, Z. (2007). Things to remember: Limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year. In: Oakes, L. M. & Bower, P. J. (Eds.) Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. pp. 103-125. Oxford, Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E. & Leslie, A. M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience across dimensions in infants: The case of color vs. luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482-489. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (2006). Methodological problems in infancy research: What are infants interested in? In: Gervain, J., Kovacs, K., Lukacs, A. & Racsmany, M. (Eds.) A mind with a thousand faces. A Festschrift in honor of Csaba Pleh. Budapest, Akademiai Press. pp. 390-397. (In Hungarian)

Kaldy, Z. & Leslie, A. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 57, 153-177. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. & Sigala, N. (2004).The neural mechanisms of object working memory: What is where in the infant brain? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 113-121. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2004). Is there an independent planning system? Suggestions from a developmental perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 41-42. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (2004). Slow developmental processes of the visual system. In: J. Gervain & C. Pleh (Eds.) Invisible cognition. Gondolat, Budapest. pp. 45-52. (In Hungarian) [abstract]

Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2003). Visual context integration is not fully developed in 4-year-old children. Perception, 32, 657-666. [abstract][pdf]

Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: integrating 'what' and 'where' information. Developmental Science, 6, 360-373. [pdf]

Leslie, A. M., & Kaldy, Z. (2001). Indexing objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61-74. [abstract][pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (2001). A critical picture of evolutionary psychology. In: C. Pléh, A. Lukács (Eds.) Mind and evolution. Typotex, Budapest. (In Hungarian) [abstract]

Kaldy, Z. (1999). Birds, vervets and referentiality. Hungarian Psychological Review (Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle), 53, 71-75. (In Hungarian) [abstract]

Kaldy, Z. (1997). On the proper treatment of Microcognition. Psychology (Pszichológia), 17, 181-193. (In Hungarian) [abstract]

Kaldy, Z. (1997). Review of D. C. Dennett: Kinds of Minds. Budapest Review of Books (BUKSZ), 9, 92-95. (In Hungarian), see: http://www.c3.hu/scripta/buksz/97/01/kaldy.htm

Pleh, C., & Kaldy, Z. (1996). Where does story grammar come from? Commentary on R. Miikkulainen: Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing. Psycholoquy (e-journal), 7(34) [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (1996). What does the cow drink? Review of D.R. Hofstadter: Fluid concepts and creative analogies. Hungarian Psychological Review (Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle), 53, 186-198. (In Hungarian) [abstract]

    Conferences

Franklin, A. & Kaldy, Z. (2008). How infants use color in understanding the physical world. Symposium co-chaired at the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 27-29, Vancouver, Canada.

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Crug, A. (2008). What is the “same amount of change” for infants? Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 27-29, Vancouver, Canada.

Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape, luminance and color tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the European Conference of Visual Perception, Aug 25-31, Arezzo, Italy. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape, luminance and color tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 11-16, Sarasota, FL. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. & Vazquez, M. D. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape and luminance tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March 22-25, Philadelphia, PA [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2006). Comparing apples and oranges: The problem of inter-dimensional salience in infancy research. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 19-23, Kyoto, Japan.

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E. & Kibbe, M. (2006). Detection vs. salience of color and motion-defined stimuli in 6-month-old infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 9-13, Sarasota, FL. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Kibbe, M., & Pomplun, M. (2005). What drives visual salience in young infants? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 6-11, Sarasota, FL [pdf]

Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., Eddy, K., & Pomplun, M. (2005). Determining salience for complex objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 6-11, Sarasota, FL [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2005). Visual salience relations reflect perceptual development in 5- and 6-month-old infants. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Psychology, May 5-8, Atlanta, GA [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2004). Iso-salient color and luminance information in visual working memory. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Aug 22-26, Budapest, Hungary [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A. (2004). Iso-salient color and luminance information in object identification. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 5-8, Chicago, IL [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (2002). Competition for working memory resources in 9-month-olds infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Apr 18-21, Toronto, Canada [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (2001). Object identification by feature at 9 months. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Apr 19-22, Minneapolis, MN [pdf]

Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2000). Visual context integration is not fully developed in 4-5-year-old children. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophtalmology, Apr 30-May 5, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Kaldy, Z. & Leslie, A.M. (2000). Object identification in a simple hiding task: at 9 months. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 16-19, Brighton, UK. [pdf]

Kaldy, Z. (2007). Comparing apples and oranges: the problem of inter-dimensional salience in infancy research. Laboratory of Developmental Studies Talk Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Feb 12, 2007

Kaldy, Z. (2005). Comparing apples and oranges: the problem of inter-dimensional salience in infancy research. Current Work in Developmental Psychology series, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Nov 2, 2005

Kaldy, Z. (2005). What was there? The development of attention in infancy. New England Conference on Infant Studies, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, MA, March 5, 2005

Kaldy, Z. (2004). The development of visual working memory and attention. Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, MA, Nov 12, 2004

Kaldy, Z. (2004). The development of visual working memory in human infants. Human Development Colloquium series, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 7, 2004

Kaldy, Z. (2003). The development of visual working memory in human infants. RuCCS lecture series, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, March 13, 2003

Kaldy, Z. (2002). The development of visual working memory in human infants. Symposium on Early Cognitive Development and Its Impairments. Technical University, Budapest, Hungary, Dec 20, 2002

Kaldy, Z. (2002). The development of visual working memory for objects. Invited talk at the Kanwisher Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, Dec 4, 2002

Kaldy, Z. (2002). The development of visual working memory for objects. Invited talk at University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, Nov 21, 2002

Kaldy, Z. & Leslie, A. M. (2002). What mechanisms affect the unusual social profile of Williams Syndrome individuals? Talk at the Williams Syndrome Symposium, Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Kaldy, Z. (2001) Object identification at 9 months. Invited talk at University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Kaldy, Z. (2001). Identification of objects: integrating 'what' and 'where' information. Invited talk at Early Development and Its Impairments, Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Extracurricular activities

• translation from English into Hungarian (Karl Popper's The body-mind problem, chapters in Bela Julesz's Dialogues on perception, published in 1998 and 2000, respectively, by Typotex Press, Budapest)
• languages: Hungarian, English