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32

Psychology

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Citations
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Overview

István Czigler is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary and has a research focus within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work prominently intersects with Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, with contributions also touching on Social Psychology, Physiology, and Food Science.

Their research explores a broad range of topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

István Czigler has published frequently in several venues. Key publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE

Among recent papers associated with their name are:

  • Visual Mismatch Negativity: A Mini-Review of Non-pathological Studies With Special Populations and Stimuli, 2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Persistent deterioration of visuospatial performance in spaceflight, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Automatic detection of peripheral stimuli in shooters and handball players: an event-related potential study, 2021, Experimental Brain Research
  • Older Adults Automatically Detect Age of Older Adults' Photographs: A Visual Mismatch Negativity Study, 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Can irrelevant but salient visual cues compensate for the age-related decline in cognitive conflict resolution?-An ERP study, 2020, PLoS ONE

Collaboration is an important aspect of their research with frequent co-authors including:

  • Zsófia Anna Gaál
  • Petia Kojouharova
  • Boglárka Nagy
  • Béla Petró
  • Petra Csizmadia

Best Publications

  • Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemes.

    Istvańn Winkler;Teija Kujala;Hannu Tiitinen;Päivi Sivonen

  • Visual mismatch negativity: a predictive coding view.

    Gábor Stefanics;Jan Kremláček;István Czigler

  • Evidence from auditory and visual event-related potential (ERP) studies of deviance detection (MMN and vMMN) linking predictive coding theories and perceptual object representations ☆

    István Winkler;István Czigler;István Czigler

  • Pre-attentive detection of vowel contrasts utilizes both phonetic and auditory memory representations

    István Winkler;Anne Lehtokoski;Paavo Alku;Paavo Alku;Martti Vainio

  • Memory-based detection of task-irrelevant visual changes.

    István Czigler;László Balázs;István Winkler;István Winkler

  • Visual Mismatch Negativity

    István Czigler

  • Processing of unattended facial emotions: a visual mismatch negativity study.

    Gábor Stefanics;Gábor Csukly;Sarolta Komlósi;Pál Czobor

  • MMN or no MMN: No magnitude of deviance effect on the MMN amplitude

    János Horváth;János Horváth;István Czigler;Thomas Jacobsen;Burkhard Maess

  • Preattentive Binding of Auditory and Visual Stimulus Features

    István Winkler;István Czigler;Elyse Sussman;János Horváth

  • Visual mismatch negativity and its importance in visual cognitive sciences

    Motohiro Kimura;Erich Schröger;István Czigler

  • Visual change detection: event-related potentials are dependent on stimulus location in humans.

    István Czigler;László Balázs;Lı́via G Pató

  • Age and inter-stimulus interval effects on event-related potentials to frequent and infrequent auditory stimuli.

    István Czigler;Gergely Csibra;Anikó Csontos

  • Event-related potentials in a visual discrimination task: negative waves related to detection and attention.

    Istvan Czigler;Gergely Csibra

  • Simultaneously active pre-attentive representations of local and global rules for sound sequences in the human brain.

    János Horváth;István Czigler;Elyse Sussman;István Winkler;István Winkler

  • Organizing sound sequences in the human brain: the interplay of auditory streaming and temporal integration.

    Hirooki Yabe;István Winkler;István Winkler;István Czigler;Sachiko Koyama

  • Age-related differences in distraction and reorientation in an auditory task.

    János Horváth;István Czigler;Emma Birkás;István Winkler

  • Visual mismatch negativity reveals automatic detection of sequential regularity violation.

    Gábor Stefanics;Gábor Stefanics;Motohiro Kimura;István Czigler

  • Interactions between transient and long-term auditory memory as reflected by the mismatch negativity

    István Winkler;Nelson Cowan;Valéria Csépe;István Czigler

  • Mismatch negativity: deviance detection or the maintenance of the ‘standard’

    István Winkler;István Czigler

  • ERPs and deviance detection: visual mismatch negativity to repeated visual stimuli.

    István Czigler;Júlia Weisz;István Winkler;István Winkler

Frequent Co-Authors

István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Elyse Sussman
Elyse Sussman Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
Hideki Ohira
Hideki Ohira Nagoya University
Nelson Cowan
Nelson Cowan University of Missouri

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