Agnes Melinda Kovacs is a psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist based at the Central European University.
In 2010 she moved to the Central European University to continue her postdoctoral research at the Cognitive Development Center there.
[1][2] In 2012 Kovacs was the recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant for her project REPCOLLAB (Representational preconditions for understanding other minds in the service of human collaboration and social learning), which she carried out at the Central European University (CEU).
[1] Kovacs's team combines methods from cognitive neuroscience with ideas from philosophy of mind.
[3] In her early work, conducted with Jacques Mehler among others, she investigated the effects of bilingualism on executive functions and on false-belief reasoning.