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Adaptive modeling of the unattended acoustic environment reflected in the mismatch negativity event-related potentialI Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Brain Res 742:239-52. 1996....
From sensory to long-term memory: evidence from auditory memory reactivation studiesIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Exp Psychol 52:3-20. 2005..Thus, sounds closely linked with their auditory context are more likely to be remembered. The representations of acoustic regularities are automatically activated by matching sounds, enabling object recognition...
Human auditory cortex tracks task-irrelevant sound sourcesIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, PO Box 398, Szondi u 83 85, Hungary
Neuroreport 14:2053-6. 2003..Our results demonstrate that sounds are organized into auditory streams irrespective of their relevance to ongoing behavior...
Language context and phonetic change detectionIstvan Winkler
Department of General Psychology, Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 398, Szondi u 83 85, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:833-44. 2003..Language context had no effect on the mismatch negativity ERP component elicited by the deviant word stimuli. This result suggests that language context does not affect the pre-attentive detection of auditory deviance...
Newborn infants can organize the auditory worldIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:11812-5. 2003..Its presence in newborn infants shows that the basic abilities required for the development of conceptual objects are available already at the time of birth...
Preattentive auditory context effectsIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:57-77. 2003..The close correspondence found between the effects of auditory context on the perceptual and preattentive measures of auditory grouping suggests that a large part of contextual processing is preattentive...
Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic informationIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Psychophysiology 39:530-4. 2002..Event-related brain potentials demonstrated the survival of an accurate representation of tone pitch in the auditory cortex. This result provides a link between short-duration buffering and permanent storage of acoustic information...
Two separate codes for missing-fundamental pitch in the human auditory cortexI Winkler
Department of Psychophysiology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
J Acoust Soc Am 102:1072-82. 1997..The contrasting features found for the two auditory cortical missing-fundamental pitch codes support the notion of two separate missing-fundamental pitch resolving mechanisms...
Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemesI Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 36:638-42. 1999..This result indicates that the fluent Hungarians developed cortical memory representations for the Finnish phoneme system that enabled them to preattentively categorize phonemes specific to this language...
Preattentive processing of auditory spatial information in humansI Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Neurosci Lett 242:49-52. 1998..In addition, a dissociation between the MMN and P3a amplitudes was found: whereas lateral deviants elicited a larger P3a than the simultaneous left + right deviant, the MMN amplitude was approximately equal for all three deviants...
Deviance detection in congruent audiovisual speech: evidence for implicit integrated audiovisual memory representationsIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Biol Psychol 82:281-92. 2009..The pattern of behavioral and ERP results suggest that the formation of such cross-modal memory representation does not require voluntary operations and may even proceed for stimuli outside the focus of attention...
Preattentive representation of feature conjunctions for concurrent spatially distributed auditory objectsRika Takegata
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:169-79. 2005..The discrepancy between the results obtained with and without focal attention suggests that illusory conjunctions may occur during voluntary access to the preattentively encoded object representations...
Object representation in the human auditory systemIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, P O Box 398, Hungary
Eur J Neurosci 24:625-34. 2006..Thus tones forming a spectro-temporal border are exclusively assigned to one sound object at any given time, as are spatio-temporal borders in vision...
Preattentive binding of auditory and visual stimulus featuresIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
J Cogn Neurosci 17:320-39. 2005....
Preventing distraction: assessing stimulus-specific and general effects of the predictive cueing of deviant auditory eventsJános Horváth
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Biol Psychol 87:35-48. 2011..The results also suggest that early P3a and RON index processes related to the specific deviating stimulus feature, whereas late P3a reflects a general distraction-related process...
Do N1/MMN, P3a, and RON form a strongly coupled chain reflecting the three stages of auditory distraction?János Horváth
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Biol Psychol 79:139-47. 2008..Possible interpretations of P3a and RON are discussed...
Age-related differences in distraction and reorientation in an auditory taskJános Horváth
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Neurobiol Aging 30:1157-72. 2009..Restoration of the task-optimal attention set was delayed in children, whereas in the elderly, the triggering of involuntary attention-switching required longer time...
The temporal window of integration in elderly and young adultsJános Horváth
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Neurobiol Aging 28:964-75. 2007..On the other hand, the lower MMN amplitudes elicited by frequency deviation in the elderly compared with the younger participants suggest that the specificity of frequency representation deteriorates with aging...
Visual temporal window of integration as revealed by the visual mismatch negativity event-related potential to stimulus omissionsIstván Czigler
Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res 1104:129-40. 2006..These results support the notion of a temporal integration window in the visual modality, the duration of which is between 150 and 180 ms...
Newborn infants process pitch intervalsGabor Stefanics
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P O Box 398, Szondi u 83 85, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Clin Neurophysiol 120:304-8. 2009..We investigated whether the auditory system of newborn babies extracts the constancy of a pitch interval from exemplars varying in absolute pitch...
Distraction in a continuous-stimulation detection taskJános Horváth
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Biol Psychol 83:229-38. 2010..However, when the auditory stimulation was task-relevant, the gap-elicited N1 was attenuated. These results show that the glides drew attention away from the ongoing task, both from watching the silent movie and from detecting gaps...
Evidence from auditory and visual event-related potential (ERP) studies of deviance detection (MMN and vMMN) linking predictive coding theories and perceptual object representationsIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Int J Psychophysiol 83:132-43. 2012..Based on this evidence we then argue that these perceptual object representations are closely related to the generative models assumed by predictive coding theories...
Phase entrainment of human delta oscillations can mediate the effects of expectation on reaction speedGabor Stefanics
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
J Neurosci 30:13578-85. 2010....
Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objectsIstvan Winkler
Department of General Psychology, Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1394 Budapest, P O Box 398, Hungary
Trends Cogn Sci 13:532-40. 2009..Accuracy of the predictions can be utilized for selecting the most likely interpretation of the auditory input. Thus in our view, perception generates hypotheses about the causal structure of the world...
Regular patterns stabilize auditory streamsAlexandra Bendixen
Department of General Psychology, Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 398, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
J Acoust Soc Am 128:3658-66. 2010..These results suggest that temporal regularities are utilized in auditory scene analysis. It appears that the role of this cue lies in stabilizing streams once they have been formed on the basis of simpler acoustic cues...
ERPs and deviance detection: visual mismatch negativity to repeated visual stimuliIstván Czigler
Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Neurosci Lett 401:178-82. 2006..Thus, similarly to its auditory counterpart, vMMN reflects deviance-(regularity-violation) rather than change-detection processes...
Event-related brain potentials reveal multiple stages in the perceptual organization of soundIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:291-9. 2005..These results suggest that sound organization goes through at least two distinct stages, the first being fully stimulus driven, whereas the second is partly under top-down control...
Loudness summation and the mismatch negativity event-related brain potential in humansAttila Oceák
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 43:13-20. 2006..MMN was elicited by tone omissions with random SOA, suggesting that loudness summation plays an important role in the elicitation of omission MMN...
Probability dependence and functional separation of the object-related and mismatch negativity event-related potential componentsAlexandra Bendixen
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szondi utca 83 85, H 1068 Budapest, Hungary
Neuroimage 50:285-90. 2010..ORN probability dependence is argued to be functionally relevant for the interaction of concurrent and sequential mechanisms of auditory scene analysis...
Newborn infants detect the beat in musicIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, P O Box 398, Hungary
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:2468-71. 2009..Omitting the downbeat elicits brain activity associated with violating sensory expectations. Thus, our results strongly support the view that beat perception is innate...
How the human auditory system treats repetition amongst changeJános Horváth
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P O Box 389, Szondi u 83 85, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Neurosci Lett 368:157-61. 2004..Global repetition probability had a significant effect on RN: it was only elicited with 5%, but not with the two higher repetition-probabilities. This result supports the MMN interpretation of the RN...
Timbre-independent extraction of pitch in newborn infantsGábor P Háden
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 46:69-74. 2009....
Units of sound representation and temporal integration: a mismatch negativity studyAttila Oceák
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Neurosci Lett 436:85-9. 2008....
Auditory temporal grouping in newborn infantsGabor Stefanics
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 44:697-702. 2007..Also, for the first time, we observed oscillatory gamma-band activity in neonates, which was sensitive to infrequent pitch changes...
Backward masking and visual mismatch negativity: electrophysiological evidence for memory-based detection of deviant stimuliIstván Czigler
Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 44:610-9. 2007..Therefore the processes underlying vMMN elicitation cannot fully explain the overt detection of visual deviance...
I heard that coming: event-related potential evidence for stimulus-driven prediction in the auditory systemAlexandra Bendixen
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1068 Budapest, Hungary
J Neurosci 29:8447-51. 2009..This suggests that the auditory system preactivates the neural circuits for expected input, using sequential predictions to specifically prepare for future acoustic events...
Association between dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) gene polymorphisms and novelty-elicited auditory event-related potentials in preschool childrenEmma Birkas
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, POB 398, Hungary 1394
Brain Res 1103:150-8. 2006..We also speculate that activation of less sensitive and fewer D4 receptors (as with the T.7 haplotype) is less effective in modulating GABAergic inhibitory signaling, which in turn is reflected in smaller LN amplitudes...
The effects of rhythm and melody on auditory stream segregationOrsolya Szalardy
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P O Box 286, H 1519 Budapest, Hungary
J Acoust Soc Am 135:1392-405. 2014..These results suggest that the regular temporal patterns are utilized as cues in auditory stream segregation and that long-term memory is involved in this process. ..
Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding viewIstvan Winkler
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 398, 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:1001-12. 2012..This account of auditory stream segregation has been tested on perceptual data obtained in the auditory streaming paradigm...
MMN or no MMN: no magnitude of deviance effect on the MMN amplitudeJános Horváth
Institute of Psychology I, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Psychophysiology 45:60-9. 2008..These results are compatible with an explanation suggesting that MMN is involved in maintaining a neural representation of the auditory environment...
Simultaneously active pre-attentive representations of local and global rules for sound sequences in the human brainJ Horvath
Institute of Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, P O Box 389 Szondi u 83 85, Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 12:131-44. 2001....
The role of large-scale memory organization in the mismatch negativity event-related brain potentialI Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
J Cogn Neurosci 13:59-71. 2001..Because the MMN indexes preattentive auditory processing, the present results provide evidence that large-scale preperceptual organization of auditory events occurs despite attention being directed away from the auditory stimuli...
Mismatch response (MMR) in neonates: Beyond refractorinessGábor P Háden
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Electronic address
Biol Psychol 117:26-31. 2016..This shows that neonates process sounds in a context-dependent manner as well as strengthens the correspondence between the adult MMN and the infant MMR. ..
Assessing the validity of subjective reports in the auditory streaming paradigmDavid Farkas
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
J Acoust Soc Am 139:1762. 2016..In sum, these results suggest that valid perceptual data can be obtained from subjective reports in the auditory streaming paradigm. ..
Memory-based detection of task-irrelevant visual changesIstván Czigler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Psychophysiology 39:869-73. 2002..The observed posterior negativity can therefore be regarded as a visual analog of the mismatch negativity (vMMN)...
Theta oscillations accompanying concurrent auditory stream segregationBrigitta Tóth
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, United States Electronic address
Int J Psychophysiol 106:141-51. 2016..The current results are compatible with the notion that theta oscillations mediate some of the processes involved in concurrent sound segregation. ..
Auditory Multi-Stability: Idiosyncratic Perceptual Switching Patterns, Executive Functions and Personality TraitsDavid Farkas
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
PLoS ONE 11:e0154810. 2016..Thus individual patterns of perceptual switching in the auditory streaming paradigm are related to some personality traits and executive functions. ..
Promoting the perception of two and three concurrent sound objects: An event-related potential studyZsuzsanna Kocsis
Institute of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H 1117, Hungary Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Egry József u 1, Budapest, H 1111, Hungary Electronic address
Int J Psychophysiol 107:16-28. 2016..These results suggest that ORN reflects the presence of multiple concurrent sounds, but not their number. The ORN results are compatible with the horse-race principle of combining different cues of concurrent sound segregation. ..
EEG signatures accompanying auditory figure-ground segregationBrigitta Tóth
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, USA Electronic address
Neuroimage 141:108-19. 2016....
Effects of multiple congruent cues on concurrent sound segregation during passive and active listening: an event-related potential (ERP) studyZsuzsanna Kocsis
Institute of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary Electronic address
Biol Psychol 100:20-33. 2014..These results support the view that ORN reflects a combined, feature-unspecific assessment of the auditory system regarding the contribution of two sources to the incoming sound. ..
Foreground-background discrimination indicated by event-related brain potentials in a new auditory multistability paradigmOrsolya Szalardy
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 50:1239-50. 2013..Auditory grouping as indexed by the mismatch negativity did not correspond with reported sound grouping. The paradigm offers a new possibility for investigating effects of conscious perceptual organization on sound processing. ..
Processing of Horizontal Sound Localization Cues in Newborn InfantsRenáta Németh
1Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 2Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 3Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology and Perinatal Intensive Care Unit, Military Hospital, Budapest, Hungary and 5Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Ear Hear 36:550-6. 2015..By measuring event-related brain potentials (ERPs), the authors tested the sensitivity of the newborn auditory cortex to sound lateralization and to the most common cues of horizontal sound localization...

