Department of Cognitive- and
Neuropsychology,
Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged
The Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology Program has been
organized by Csaba Pléh, in 1999, at the Institute of Psychology,
University of Szeged.
The Department of Cognitive and Neuropsychology is
located at the campus of the Faculty of Arts. The
Institute of Psychology, of which the Department is part
of, is the longest-standing psychology institute in
Hungary (founded in 1929).
Szeged, Hungary
Hildebrand Dezső
Várkonyi, founder of the
institute of psychology
at Szeged, in 1929
Address: Egyetem u. 2., 6722 Szeged, Hungary
Phone: +36 62 544509 +36 62 544691
Fax: +36 62 544509
Members of the group teach in the BA program and in the Cognitive and
Neuropsychology MA program offered by the Institute of Psychology. The
group works to advance theoretical knowledge and clinical practice
through experimental and applied research and works in partnership with
the Neurological Clinic and the Department of Psychiatry, both at the
University of Szeged.
Key research areas fall under the following main headings:
Recognition and
categorization of
visual objects, face
perception
Perceptual-motor skill
learning, implicit
unconscious learning
Cognitive functions in
sclerosis multiplex, neglect,
stroke and in developmental
disorders
Sleep and memory
processes, effect of sleep
deprivation
Neuropsychology of
neurodegenerative disease
Affordance perception in object use,
theoretical and historical aspects of
embodiment and ecological psychology
István WINKLER
is Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of
Szeged, from 2008 on. He is involved in teaching and is research
consultant as member of the Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology
Group. He was instrumental in setting up the high-quality EEG
laboratory at the Institute and advises research projects in the
laboratory. Professor Winkler is also head of the Group of
Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience at the Budapest- based
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology.
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.mtapi.hu/index.php?mi=96&lang=hu&
Ágnes SZOKOLSZKY
Is Head of the Cognitive and Neuropsychology Department, currently
designated for a one-year term. She is habilitated associate professor
and director of the Institute of Psychology. She is member of the
Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology Group since 1999. Her main
research interests are in theoretical and historical aspects of
psychology and cognitive science, ecological psychology and
embodiment.
Email: [email protected]
Our EEG Lab was established in 2009 and named after a
world-famous Hungarian neurophysiologist Endre Grastyán.
Gábor
Csifcsák
Assistant professor,
Head of Lab
Research primarily focuses on what determines the recognition and
categorization of visual objects. Specifically, we are investigating
contextual effects and task-induced modulations during entry-level and
superordinate object categorization. In the field of face perception, we
are interested in the way how certain personality traits modulate
underlying brain processes. Another main topic relates to the prediction
of stimulus characteristics determined by self-paced changes in the
visual environment. Within this project, our aim is to assess if neural
correlates of such anticipatory processes are altered in patients with
psychotic disorders, primarily including schizophrenia.
Email: [email protected]
Graduated at the Faculty of
Medicine, Szeged University.
Gained his PhD degree at
the Doctoral School of
Clinical Medical Studies at
Szeged University. He is
manager of the EEG Lab.
Eszter
CSÁBI
Growing body of evidence suggests that sleep contributes to the
consolidation of memory by the enhancement of the neuronal plasticity,
which leads to the memory representation being more resistance to
interference and forgetting. But the beneficial effect of sleep on memory
consolidation has not been comprehensively characterized so far.
Our investigations focus on the relationship between sleep and
different memory processes to clarify this question. Furthermore, we
investigate effect of daytime nap on memory functions and the effect of
sleep deprivation on memory processes by examining patients with sleep
pathologies and shift workers.
Assistant professor
Email: [email protected]
Graduated at the Institute of
Psychology, Szeged University.
Currently assistant professor at
the institute and pursues her PhD
studies at the Doctoral School of
Clinical Medical Studies at Szeged
University.
Emese
HALLGATÓ
Assistant Professor
A very important deal of our daily cognition occurs automatically
or even without us being aware of it. This kind of knowledge is
evident in some of our skills or habits that we gain without intention,
or intentionally but without having a conscious control of the learning
process. In order to investigate these processes we use perceptuomotor sequence learning tasks where participants respond to series
of stimuli by pressing the appropriate buttons (somewhat like playing
a piano) and, importantly, the sequence is hidden so that the task
appears to be random to them.
We investigate the amount of practice that is needed for
participants to gain a knowledge that is profound enough to consider
their piano-like performance a habit, and we are also interested in
how much new learning is necessary to change this habit into a new
one by changing the underlying (hidden) sequence at one point of
the task.
Email: [email protected]
Graduated at the
Institute of Psychology, Szeged
University. Currently assistant
professor at the institute and
pursues her PhD studies at the
Doctoral
School
of
ELTE
University.
MAIN INTEREST:
 Neuropsychology of neurodegenerative disease,
 The role of cerebellum and basal ganglia in cognitive processes,
 Risk of postpartum depression,
 The effect of carotis stenosis on cognitive functioning and anxiety.
Tamás
SEFCSIK
Assistant professor
Email: [email protected]
Graduated at the Institute of
Psychology, Szeged University.
Currently assistant professor at the
institute and pursues his PhD
studies at the Doctoral School of
Clinical Medical Studies at Szeged
University.
MAIN INTEREST:
 Measuring working memory and executive functions after
stroke
 Neglect
 Investigating the neuropsychological background of Sclerosis
Multiplex
Tímea
TÁNCZOS
 Investigating working memory and executive functions in
learning and developmental disorders
 Age-related changes in verbal fluency across the lifespan
Email: [email protected]
Number of words on semantic fluency
test
30
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Graduated at the Institute of
Psychology, Szeged University.
Currently assistant professor at
the institute and pursues her
PhD studies at the Graduate
School
of
Educational
Sciences at Szeged University.
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