Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Matthew Hugh Erdelyi

Biography

Matthew Hugh Erdelyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, lived in Venezuela for several years, and finally settled in the United States, where I obtained my Ph.D. at Yale. I speak no language without an accent. I am a professor of psychology and the formerly Stern Professor of Humor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. I have pursued experimental and theoretical work on subliminal perception, the recovery of memories (reminiscence, hypermnesia), psychodynamics (e.g., defense mechanisms such as repression and denial), and “twilight phenomena” (such as dreams, fantasy, jokes). Along with many articles, I have published two books, Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Cognitive Psychology and The Recovery of Unconscious Memories: Hypermnesia and Reminiscence. I have been a visiting scholar at various universities (e.g., University of Cambridge, University of Pennsylvania, the Langley Porter Institute), and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Research Interest

Geriatric Care Management, Aging Skin, Advances in Alzheimers Therapy