Istvan Winkler

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Affiliation: Institute for Psychology
Country: Hungary

Publications

  1. ncbi Adaptive modeling of the unattended acoustic environment reflected in the mismatch negativity event-related potential
    I Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
    Brain Res 742:239-52. 1996
  2. ncbi From sensory to long-term memory: evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    Exp Psychol 52:3-20. 2005
  3. ncbi Human auditory cortex tracks task-irrelevant sound sources
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, PO Box 398, Szondi u 83 85, Hungary
    Neuroreport 14:2053-6. 2003
  4. ncbi Newborn infants can organize the auditory world
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:11812-5. 2003
  5. ncbi Preattentive auditory context effects
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:57-77. 2003
  6. ncbi Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic information
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
    Psychophysiology 39:530-4. 2002
  7. ncbi Language context and phonetic change detection
    Istvan 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
  8. ncbi Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemes
    I Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    Psychophysiology 36:638-42. 1999
  9. ncbi Preattentive processing of auditory spatial information in humans
    I Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
    Neurosci Lett 242:49-52. 1998
  10. ncbi Two separate codes for missing-fundamental pitch in the human auditory cortex
    I Winkler
    Department of Psychophysiology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    J Acoust Soc Am 102:1072-82. 1997

Detail Information

Publications41

  1. ncbi Adaptive modeling of the unattended acoustic environment reflected in the mismatch negativity event-related potential
    I Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
    Brain Res 742:239-52. 1996
    ....
  2. ncbi From sensory to long-term memory: evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies
    Istvan 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...
  3. ncbi Human auditory cortex tracks task-irrelevant sound sources
    Istvan 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...
  4. ncbi Newborn infants can organize the auditory world
    Istvan 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...
  5. ncbi Preattentive auditory context effects
    Istvan 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...
  6. ncbi Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic information
    Istvan 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...
  7. ncbi Language context and phonetic change detection
    Istvan 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...
  8. ncbi Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemes
    I 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...
  9. ncbi Preattentive processing of auditory spatial information in humans
    I 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...
  10. ncbi Two separate codes for missing-fundamental pitch in the human auditory cortex
    I 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...
  11. ncbi Deviance detection in congruent audiovisual speech: evidence for implicit integrated audiovisual memory representations
    Istvan 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...
  12. ncbi Object representation in the human auditory system
    Istvan 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...
  13. ncbi Age-related differences in distraction and reorientation in an auditory task
    János 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...
  14. ncbi Preattentive binding of auditory and visual stimulus features
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    J Cogn Neurosci 17:320-39. 2005
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  15. ncbi 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...
  16. ncbi Preventing distraction: assessing stimulus-specific and general effects of the predictive cueing of deviant auditory events
    János 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...
  17. ncbi The temporal window of integration in elderly and young adults
    János 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...
  18. ncbi Newborn infants process pitch intervals
    Gabor 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...
  19. ncbi Visual temporal window of integration as revealed by the visual mismatch negativity event-related potential to stimulus omissions
    István 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...
  20. ncbi Distraction in a continuous-stimulation detection task
    János 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...
  21. ncbi Evidence from auditory and visual event-related potential (ERP) studies of deviance detection (MMN and vMMN) linking predictive coding theories and perceptual object representations
    Istvan 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...
  22. ncbi Phase entrainment of human delta oscillations can mediate the effects of expectation on reaction speed
    Gabor Stefanics
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    J Neurosci 30:13578-85. 2010
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  23. ncbi Regular patterns stabilize auditory streams
    Alexandra 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...
  24. ncbi Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects
    Istvan 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...
  25. ncbi Event-related brain potentials reveal multiple stages in the perceptual organization of sound
    Istvan 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...
  26. ncbi ERPs and deviance detection: visual mismatch negativity to repeated visual stimuli
    István 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...
  27. ncbi Loudness summation and the mismatch negativity event-related brain potential in humans
    Attila 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...
  28. ncbi Auditory temporal grouping in newborn infants
    Gabor 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...
  29. ncbi Backward masking and visual mismatch negativity: electrophysiological evidence for memory-based detection of deviant stimuli
    István 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...
  30. ncbi How the human auditory system treats repetition amongst change
    János 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...
  31. ncbi Timbre-independent extraction of pitch in newborn infants
    Gábor P Háden
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    Psychophysiology 46:69-74. 2009
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  32. ncbi Newborn infants detect the beat in music
    Istvan 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...
  33. ncbi Probability dependence and functional separation of the object-related and mismatch negativity event-related potential components
    Alexandra 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...
  34. ncbi Units of sound representation and temporal integration: a mismatch negativity study
    Attila Oceák
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    Neurosci Lett 436:85-9. 2008
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  35. ncbi I heard that coming: event-related potential evidence for stimulus-driven prediction in the auditory system
    Alexandra 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...
  36. ncbi Association between dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) gene polymorphisms and novelty-elicited auditory event-related potentials in preschool children
    Emma 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...
  37. ncbi Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view
    Istvan 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...
  38. ncbi MMN or no MMN: no magnitude of deviance effect on the MMN amplitude
    János 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...
  39. ncbi Simultaneously active pre-attentive representations of local and global rules for sound sequences in the human brain
    J 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
    ....
  40. ncbi The role of large-scale memory organization in the mismatch negativity event-related brain potential
    I 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...
  41. ncbi Memory-based detection of task-irrelevant visual changes
    István 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)...