Bertalan Polner

Bertalan Polner is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, affiliated with the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction. He serves as a Member of the Research Ethics Committee and maintains an active research profile at Radboud University’s Donders Centre for Cognition as a PostDoc researcher.

• Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
• Current Institutions: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Radboud University
• Research Focus: Schizotypy-psycho sis interactions, computational psychiatry, sleep-cognition links, memory mechanisms, and emotion regulation.

Dr. Polner’s research explores how positive schizotypy interacts with sleep disturbances and visual perception anomalies, using network analysis to map relationships between personality traits and mental health outcomes. His work often integrates computational modeling (e.g., drift diffusion models, predictive coding) to understand cognitive deficits in psychotic disorders.

Recent publications highlight his contributions to:

• Mapping schizotypy’s role in stress-reactivity (2025)
• Investigating REM sleep’s impact on mind-wandering (2023)
• Analyzing reward processing in borderline personality disorder through schema modes (2023)

He also develops educational tools like the introduction_to_R and Structural Equation Modeling repositories on GitHub, supporting psychological research methodology.