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Animal Science and Veterinary
Hungary
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
8272
World Ranking
4986
National Ranking
5

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
41
Citations
8146
World Ranking
1047
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Márta Gácsi is affiliated with Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the intersection of biology, psychology, and neuroscience. The main fields of study covered in their work are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Psychology, and Neuroscience. The research subfields include Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Pharmacy, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, prominently including:

  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep

Márta Gácsi has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with notable recent publications including:

  • Comparative Brain Imaging Reveals Analogous and Divergent Patterns of Species and Face Sensitivity in Humans and Dogs, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Repeated Afternoon Sleep Recordings Indicate First-Night-Effect-Like Adaptation Process in Family Dogs, 2020, Journal of Sleep Research
  • On the Face of It: No Differential Sensitivity to Internal Facial Features in the Dog Brain, 2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Multilevel fMRI Adaptation for Spoken Word Processing in the Awake Dog Brain, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Assistance and Therapy Dogs Are Better Problem Solvers Than Both Trained and Untrained Family Dogs, 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science

The venues most frequently chosen for publication by this researcher include:

  • Scientific Reports (22 publications)
  • Animals (7 publications)
  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science (3 publications)
  • NeuroImage (2 publications)
  • Animal Cognition (2 publications)

Márta Gácsi often collaborates with a group of researchers, as seen in frequent co-authorships with:

  • Ádám Miklósi (24 joint publications)
  • Attila Andics (17 joint publications)
  • Vivien Reicher (14 joint publications)
  • Anna Kis (14 joint publications)
  • Enikő Kubinyi (12 joint publications)

The combination of genetics and cognitive neuroscience expertise supports their investigation into behavioral and neurobiological aspects of animal cognition and human-animal interactions. The breadth of topics such as sleep research and evolutionary psychology suggests a multidisciplinary approach addressing both fundamental and applied questions in animal and human behavior.

Best Publications

  • A Simple Reason for a Big Difference: Wolves Do Not Look Back at Humans, but Dogs Do.

    Ádám Miklósi;Enikö Kubinyi;József Topál;Márta Gácsi

  • Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies

    József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi;Zsófia Virányi

  • Are readers of our face readers of our minds? Dogs (Canis familiaris) show situation-dependent recognition of human’s attention

    Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi;Orsolya Varga;József Topál

  • Comprehension of human pointing gestures in young human-reared wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris)

    Zsófia Virányi;Márta Gácsi;Enikő Kubinyi;József Topál

  • Voice-Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI

    Attila Andics;Márta Gácsi;Tamás Faragó;Anna Kis

  • Dogs respond appropriately to cues of humans’ attentional focus

    Zsófia Virányi;József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi

  • Attachment behavior of adult dogs (Canis familiaris) living at rescue centers: forming new bonds.

    Márta Gácsi;József Topál;Ádám Miklósi;Antal Dóka

  • Species-specific differences and similarities in the behavior of hand-raised dog and wolf pups in social situations with humans

    Márta Gácsi;Borbála Gyori;Adám Miklósi;Zsófia Virányi

  • Effects of selection for cooperation and attention in dogs

    Márta Gácsi;Paul McGreevy;Edina Kara;Ádám Miklósi

  • Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills.

    Márta Gácsi;Borbála Gyoöri;Zsófia Virányi;Zsófia Virányi;Enikö Kubinyi

  • Chapter 3 The Dog as a Model for Understanding Human Social Behavior

    József Topál;Ádám Miklósi;Márta Gácsi;Antal Dóka

  • Neural mechanisms for lexical processing in dogs

    Attila Andics;Attila Andics;Anna Gábor;Márta Gácsi;Tamás Faragó

  • A friend or an enemy? Dogs' reaction to an unfamiliar person showing behavioural cues of threat and friendliness at different times

    Judit Vas;József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi

  • Human analogue safe haven effect of the owner: behavioural and heart rate response to stressful social stimuli in dogs.

    Márta Gácsi;Katalin Maros;Sofie Sernkvist;Tamás Faragó

  • Comprehension of human pointing gestures in horses (Equus caballus).

    Katalin Maros;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi

  • The effect of development and individual differences in pointing comprehension of dogs

    Márta Gácsi;Edina Kara;Bea Belényi;József Topál

  • Canis familiaris As a Model for Non-Invasive Comparative Neuroscience.

    Nóra Bunford;Attila Andics;Anna Vargáné Kis;Ádám Miklósi;Ádám Miklósi

  • Humans rely on the same rules to assess emotional valence and intensity in conspecific and dog vocalizations

    Tamás Faragó;Attila Andics;Viktor Devecseri;Anna Vargáné Kis;Anna Vargáné Kis

  • Distinguishing logic from association in the solution of an invisible displacement task by children (Homo sapiens) and dogs (Canis familiaris): using negation of disjunction.

    John S. Watson;Gyorgy Gergely;Vilmos Csanyi;Jozsef Topal

  • On the Utilization of Social Animals as a Model for Social Robotics

    Ádám Miklósi;Márta Gácsi

  • A Test of Canine Olfactory Capacity: Comparing Various Dog Breeds and Wolves in a Natural Detection Task.

    Zita Polgár;Mari Kinnunen;Mari Kinnunen;Dóra Újváry;Ádám Miklósi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ádám Miklósi
Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University
József Topál
József Topál Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Róbert Bódizs
Róbert Bódizs Semmelweis University
Vilmos Csányi
Vilmos Csányi Eötvös Loránd University
Zsófia Virányi
Zsófia Virányi University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Friederike Range
Friederike Range University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Waterloo
Kheng Lee Koay
Kheng Lee Koay University of Hertfordshire
Hideki Hashimoto
Hideki Hashimoto Chuo University
Frédéric Kaplan
Frédéric Kaplan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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