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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
75
Citations
21711
World Ranking
2005
National Ranking
5

Psychology

D-Index
75
Citations
21704
World Ranking
1782
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

István Winkler is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary and has produced a substantial body of research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work covers several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, signal processing, and social psychology.

The research topics István Winkler has contributed to include:

  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Language development and disorders
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Reading and literacy development

Frequent publication venues for Winkler's research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychophysiology
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cortex

Winkler has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Brigitta Tóth
  • Gábor P. Háden
  • Orsolya Szalárdy
  • Teija Kujala
  • Gábor Orosz

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Prerequisites of language acquisition in the newborn brain" (2023) published in Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Special Report on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinical EEG and Research and Consensus Recommendations for the Safe Use of EEG" (2020) published in Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
  • "The effects of speech processing units on auditory stream segregation and selective attention in a multi-talker (cocktail party) situation" (2020) published in Cortex
  • "Setting precedent: Initial feature variability affects the subsequent precision of regularly varying sound contexts" (2020) published in Psychophysiology
  • "Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition probabilities" (2023) published in Cognition

In 2015, Winkler was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea. This distinction marks their contribution to the scientific community. The range of topics and interdisciplinary nature of the work reflect their engagement with both foundational and applied questions in neuroscience and psychology.

Best Publications

  • The concept of auditory stimulus representation in cognitive neuroscience.

    Risto Näätänen;István Winkler

  • Neural Mechanisms of Involuntary Attention to Acoustic Novelty and Change

    Carles Escera;Kimmo Alho;István Winkler;Risto Näätänen

  • ‘Primitive intelligence’ in the auditory cortex

    Risto Näätänen;Mari Tervaniemi;Elyse Sussman;Petri Paavilainen

  • Involuntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentials.

    Carles Escera;Kimmo Alho;Erich Schröger;István Winkler Winkler

  • Newborn infants detect the beat in music

    István Winkler;Gábor P. Háden;Gábor P. Háden;Olivia Ladinig;István Sziller

  • Memory-based or afferent processes in mismatch negativity (MMN): a review of the evidence.

    Risto Näätänen;Thomas Jacobsen;István Winkler

  • Interpreting the Mismatch Negativity

    István Winkler

  • Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects

    István Winkler;István Winkler;Susan L. Denham;Israel Nelken

  • Auditory processing that leads to conscious perception: A unique window to central auditory processing opened by the mismatch negativity and related responses

    Risto Näätänen;Teija Kujala;István Winkler;István Winkler;István Winkler

  • Memory prerequisites of mismatch negativity in the auditory event-related potential (ERP).

    Nelson Cowan;István Winkler;Wolfgang Teder;Risto Näätänen

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

    Gábor Stefanics;Balázs Hangya;István Hernádi;István Winkler

  • Adaptive modeling of the unattended acoustic environment reflected in the mismatch negativity event-related potential

    István Winkler;István Winkler;George Karmos;Risto Näätänen

  • Processing of novel sounds and frequency changes in the human auditory cortex: Magnetoencephalographic recordings

    Kimmo Alho;István Winkler;István Winkler;Carles Escera;Minna Huotilainen;Minna Huotilainen

  • 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

  • Do N1/MMN, P3a, and RON form a strongly coupled chain reflecting the three stages of auditory distraction?

    János Horváth;János Horváth;István Winkler;Alexandra Bendixen

  • Newborn infants can organize the auditory world

    István Winkler;Elena Kushnerenko;János Horváth;Rita Čeponiene

  • Top-down control over involuntary attention switching in the auditory modality

    E. Sussman;I. Winkler;E. Schröger

  • I Heard That Coming: Event-Related Potential Evidence for Stimulus-Driven Prediction in the Auditory System

    Alexandra Bendixen;Erich Schröger;István Winkler

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

    István Winkler;István Czigler

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Alexandra Bendixen
Alexandra Bendixen Chemnitz University of Technology
István Czigler
István Czigler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Elyse Sussman
Elyse Sussman Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
Petri Paavilainen
Petri Paavilainen University of Helsinki
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki

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