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Neuroscience
Hungary
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
17407
World Ranking
3777
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

István Ulbert is affiliated with Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with extensive work spanning several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics of Ulbert's scientific contributions cover a range of specialized areas in neuroscience and neural engineering. These include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Ulbert has published research in frequent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • NeuroImage

Some recent papers include:

  • Dissociation of broadband high-frequency activity and neuronal firing in the neocortex, 2020, Science Advances
  • Associative and plastic thalamic signaling to the lateral amygdala controls fear behavior, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Microscale Physiological Events on the Human Cortical Surface, 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • Huygens synchronization of medial septal pacemaker neurons generates hippocampal theta oscillation, 2022, Cell Reports
  • The neural tissue around SU-8 implants: A quantitative in vivo biocompatibility study, 2020, Materials Science and Engineering C

Ulbert collaborates frequently with several coauthors who have worked extensively alongside them. These collaborators include:

  • Richárd Fiáth
  • Gergely Márton
  • Domokos Meszéna
  • Dániel Fabó
  • Lúcia Wittner

Ulbert has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2020.

Best Publications

  • Entrainment of Neuronal Oscillations as a Mechanism of Attentional Selection

    Peter Lakatos;Peter Lakatos;George Karmos;George Karmos;Ashesh D. Mehta;Istvan Ulbert;Istvan Ulbert

  • Phasic Firing in Dopaminergic Neurons Is Sufficient for Behavioral Conditioning

    Hsing-Chen Tsai;Feng Zhang;Antoine Roger Adamantidis;Garret D Stuber

  • An oscillatory hierarchy controlling neuronal excitability and stimulus processing in the auditory cortex

    Peter Lakatos;Ankoor S. Shah;Kevin H. Knuth;Istvan Ulbert

  • Phase Entrainment of Human Delta Oscillations Can Mediate the Effects of Expectation on Reaction Speed

    Gábor Stefanics;Balázs Hangya;István Hernádi;István Winkler

  • The Human K-Complex Represents an Isolated Cortical Down-State

    Sydney S. Cash;Eric Halgren;Nima Dehghani;Andrea O. Rossetti

  • Coupling of total hemoglobin concentration, oxygenation, and neural activity in rat somatosensory cortex.

    Anna Devor;Andrew K. Dunn;Mark L. Andermann;Istvan Ulbert;Istvan Ulbert

  • Suppressed Neuronal Activity and Concurrent Arteriolar Vasoconstriction May Explain Negative Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Signal

    Anna Devor;Peifang Tian;Nozomi Nishimura;Ivan C. Teng

  • Current-source density estimation based on inversion of electrostatic forward solution: effects of finite extent of neuronal activity and conductivity discontinuities.

    Klas H. Pettersen;Anna Devor;Anna Devor;Istvan Ulbert;Istvan Ulbert;Anders M. Dale

  • The Generation and Propagation of the Human Alpha Rhythm

    Milan Halgren;István Ulbert;István Ulbert;Hélène Bastuji;Dániel Fabó

  • Responses of Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex Microdomains to Error Detection, Conflict Monitoring, Stimulus-Response Mapping, Familiarity, and Orienting

    Chunmao Wang;Istvan Ulbert;Donald L Schomer;Ksenija Marinkovic

  • Neural Dynamics and the Fundamental Mechanisms of Event-related Brain Potentials

    Ankoor S. Shah;Steven L. Bressler;Kevin H. Knuth;Mingzhou Ding

  • Intermodal Selective Attention in Monkeys. I: Distribution and Timing of Effects across Visual Areas

    Ashesh D. Mehta;Istvan Ulbert;Charles E. Schroeder;Charles E. Schroeder

  • Parvalbumin-Containing Fast-Spiking Basket Cells Generate the Field Potential Oscillations Induced by Cholinergic Receptor Activation in the Hippocampus

    Attila I. Gulyás;Gergely G. Szabó;István Ulbert;István Ulbert;Noémi Holderith

  • Coupling of the cortical hemodynamic response to cortical and thalamic neuronal activity

    Anna Devor;Istvan Ulbert;Istvan Ulbert;Andrew K. Dunn;Suresh N. Narayanan

  • Laminar analysis of slow wave activity in humans.

    Richárd Csercsa;Balázs Dombovári;Balázs Dombovári;Dániel Fabó;Lucia Wittner

  • Stimulus-Induced Changes in Blood Flow and 2-Deoxyglucose Uptake Dissociate in Ipsilateral Somatosensory Cortex

    Anna Devor;Elizabeth M. C. Hillman;Peifang Tian;Christian Waeber

  • Mapping human brain networks with cortico-cortical evoked potentials

    Corey J. Keller;Christopher J. Honey;Pierre Mégevand;Laszlo Entz

  • Multiple microelectrode-recording system for human intracortical applications.

    István Ulbert;Eric Halgren;Gary Heit;George Karmos

  • Intrinsic functional architecture predicts electrically evoked responses in the human brain

    Corey J. Keller;Stephan Bickel;László Entz;Istvan Ulbert

  • Heterogeneous neuronal firing patterns during interictal epileptiform discharges in the human cortex

    Corey J. Keller;Wilson Truccolo;Wilson Truccolo;John T. Gale;Emad Eskandar

  • Correction: In the artide Suppressed Neuronal Activity and Concurrent Arteriolar Vasoconstriction May Explain Negative Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Signal

    Anna Devor;Peifang Tian;Nozomi Nishimura;Ivan C. Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Halgren
Eric Halgren University of California, San Diego
Sydney S. Cash
Sydney S. Cash Harvard University
Patrick Ruther
Patrick Ruther University of Freiburg
Charles E. Schroeder
Charles E. Schroeder Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Anna Devor
Anna Devor Boston University
Peter Lakatos
Peter Lakatos Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky New York University
Werner Doyle
Werner Doyle New York University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Joseph R. Madsen
Joseph R. Madsen Boston Children's Hospital

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