István Winkler
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István Winkler Hungarian psychologist.
Scientific Advisor (2005-) and Head of the Department of General Psychology (2000-) at the
Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
; Professor of the Institute of Psychology
, Szeged since 2008.
Fields of research: perception, memory, event-related brain potentials.
he studied psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University, and went on to attain a diploma in Psychology in 1985.
Having made a commitment to psychology, he entered the psychology PhD program at the University of Helsinki
in 1990, and got his PhD degree there, in 1993. In 1996, he was qualified as a Docent at the University of
Helsinki. He defended his DSc dissertation in Budapest, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 2005. He is a Professor at the Institute of Psychology
, Szeged
, from 2008.
He has published over 100 papers in leading psychophysiological journals (such as the European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Brain Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, USA). He is an internationally well-known researcher of auditory electrophysiology with widespread research collaborations both with Hungarian and foreign researchers.
One of his latest results is from 2009: together with Henkjan Honing
he showed that newborn infants already have a sense of rhythm (István Winkler et al.: Newborn infants detect the beat in music, 18 January 2009).
These results suggest that innate perceptual processes support early preference for music and fast acquisition of communications skills.
Scientific Advisor (2005-) and Head of the Department of General Psychology (2000-) at the
Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
; Professor of the Institute of Psychology
Institute of Psychology (Szeged)
Institute of Psychology University of Szeged, Szeged, HungaryThe Institute of Psychology is located at 2 Egyetem Street, at the Szeged University Campus of the Faculty of Arts....
, Szeged since 2008.
Fields of research: perception, memory, event-related brain potentials.
Biography
István Winkler graduated from the Radnóti Miklós Training High School of the Eötvös Loránd University. He then studied at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and graduated in 1981. From 1980,he studied psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University, and went on to attain a diploma in Psychology in 1985.
Having made a commitment to psychology, he entered the psychology PhD program at the University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...
in 1990, and got his PhD degree there, in 1993. In 1996, he was qualified as a Docent at the University of
Helsinki. He defended his DSc dissertation in Budapest, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 2005. He is a Professor at the Institute of Psychology
Institute of Psychology (Szeged)
Institute of Psychology University of Szeged, Szeged, HungaryThe Institute of Psychology is located at 2 Egyetem Street, at the Szeged University Campus of the Faculty of Arts....
, Szeged
Szeged
' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....
, from 2008.
He has published over 100 papers in leading psychophysiological journals (such as the European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Brain Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, USA). He is an internationally well-known researcher of auditory electrophysiology with widespread research collaborations both with Hungarian and foreign researchers.
One of his latest results is from 2009: together with Henkjan Honing
Henkjan Honing
Henkjan Honing is a Dutch researcher and musician. He is KNAW-Muller professor in music cognition and heads the Music Cognition Group , part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation , Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam , and the University of Amsterdam ,...
he showed that newborn infants already have a sense of rhythm (István Winkler et al.: Newborn infants detect the beat in music, 18 January 2009).
These results suggest that innate perceptual processes support early preference for music and fast acquisition of communications skills.
In Hungarian
- Winkler, I. & Czigler I. (1997). Kognitív pszichofiziológia: Agyi elektromos változások és humán megismerési folyamatok. Magyar Tudomány, 4. (Cognitive psychophysiology: brain responses and human cognitive processes)
- Czigler, I. & Winkler, I. (1998). Független modulok és feldolgozási függőség: alulnézet. In: László, L. (Ed.), Élettörténet és megismerés. (pp. 22-32). Budapest: Scientia Humana. (Independent modules and processing dependency: bottom-view)
- Winkler, I. et al. (2002). Automatikus válaszdetekció a látásban. In: Czigler, I., Halázs, L. & Marton, M. (Eds.). Az általánostól a különösig (pp. 132-148). Budapest: Gondolat. ISBN 9639450162 (Automatic response detection in vision)
- Winkler, I. Érzékelés, észlelés : Hangok szervezése és leképezése. In: Pléh, CsabaCsaba PléhCsaba Pléh is a Hungarian psychologist and linguist, professor at the Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.-Academic career:...
et al. (Ed.) Kognitív idegtudomány. (2003) Budapest : Osiris. ISBN 9633893135 (Sensation, perception: the structuring and mapping of sounds) - Winkler, I. et al. (2009). Már az újszülötteknek is van ritmusérzékük c. cikkének visszhangja. (reflections to his article "Newborn infants detect the beat in music")
In English
- István Winkler’s articles published in English
- Winkler, I., Cowan, N., Csépe, V., Czigler, I. & Näätänen, R. (1996). Interactions between transient and long-term auditory memory as reflected by the mismatch negativity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 403-415.
- Winkler, I., Kujala, T., Tiitinen, H., Sivonen, P., Alku, P., Lehtokoski, A., Czigler, I., Csépe, V., Ilmoniemi, R.J. & Näätänen, R. (1999). Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemes. Psychophysiology, 36, 638-642.
- Czigler, I., Balázs, L., & Winkler, I. (2002). Memory-based detection of task-irrelevant visual changes. Psychophysiology, 39, 869–873.
- Winkler, I., Kushnerenko, E., Horváth, J., Čeponienė, R., Fellman, V., Huotilainen, M., Näätänen, R., & Sussman, E. (2003). Newborn infants can organize the auditory world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100, 1182-1185.
- Kushnerenko, E., Winkler, I., Horváth, J., Näätänen, R., Pavlov, I., Fellman, V., & Huotilainen, M. (2007). Processing acoustic change and novelty in newborn infants. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 265–274.
- Winkler, I. (2007). Interpreting the mismatch negativity (MMN). Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 60-69.
- Newborn infants detect the beat in music from István Winkler; Gábor P. Haden; Olivia Ladining; István Sziller; Henkjan HoningHenkjan HoningHenkjan Honing is a Dutch researcher and musician. He is KNAW-Muller professor in music cognition and heads the Music Cognition Group , part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation , Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam , and the University of Amsterdam ,...
(abstract) PNAS
Society Fellowships
- Member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
- Member of the Editorial Board of Pszichológia, the journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Psychology
Awards
- Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis (University of Helsinki, 1994)
- Samuel Sutton Award for Distinguished Contribution to Human ERPs and Cognition (Samuel Sutton Foundation, 1995)
- Kardos Lajos Commemorative Medal (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004)
See also
- Beat induction
- Henkjan HoningHenkjan HoningHenkjan Honing is a Dutch researcher and musician. He is KNAW-Muller professor in music cognition and heads the Music Cognition Group , part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation , Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam , and the University of Amsterdam ,...
- Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungarian Academy of SciencesThe Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
- Institute of Psychology (Szeged)Institute of Psychology (Szeged)Institute of Psychology University of Szeged, Szeged, HungaryThe Institute of Psychology is located at 2 Egyetem Street, at the Szeged University Campus of the Faculty of Arts....
External links
- István Winkler’s articles published in English
- István Winkler et al., Newborn infants detect the beat in music, early edition at PNAS (full text, pdf format)
- Reflections to his article "Newborn infants detect the beat in music" (18-02-2009)
- a-ne-na, video
- Reflections to his article „Newborn Infants Detect the Beat in Music” (28-05-2009)
- Winkler István et al.: additional information to “Newborn infants detect the beat in music”, images and video recording
- István Winkler, Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Psychology
- István Winkler’s webpage
- István Winkler’s personal file at the homepage of the Hungarian Doctoral Council
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Psychology PhD Program