Our research is in the field of auditory cognitive neuroscience and focuses on the brain processes that mediate the perception of auditory input. Our work uses behavioral methods (psychophysics), eye tracking, and functional brain imaging (EEG). We study 1) sound organization’s memory and attentional processes underlying auditory object perception and 2) the origin and operation of information processing functions involved in communication and music perception, such as detecting acoustic regularities. 3) how participants in communicative interactions synchronize in EEG and behavior
Examples of the questions we address in our experiments are:
How do listeners synchronize during realistic natural communication settings?
How are listeners able to follow someone’s speech in a multi-talker environment?
How do we detect patterns in rapidly unfolding sound sequences?
What are the cortical mechanisms for statistical and supervised learning of auditory spatial cues?
What are auditory plasticity’s cognitive and neural mechanisms across the human lifespan?
Does coordination between student and teacher or mother and child help learning new movement patterns?
Collaborations
Prof. Dr. István Sziller, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, DBC – Szent Imre University Teaching Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Silvia Polver University of Padova, Padova Italy
Dr. Roberta Bianco Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Rome, Italy
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Picinali Dyson School of Design Engineering – Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Dr. Robert Baumgartner Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dr. Henkjan Honing Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dr. Katalin Mády Research Group of Phonetics, Institute for General and Hungarian Linguistics, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Klára Vicsi, Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Sztahó Dávid, Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Ildikó Király Institute of Psychology Department of Cognitive Psychology, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Susan L. Denham Cognition Institute, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Prof. Erich Schröger Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Bea R.H. Van den Bergh Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Prof. Alexandra Bendixen School of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Dr. Juanita Todd, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr. Lidia Shestopalova, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dr. Hirohito M. Kondo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
Dr. Csapó Tamás Gábor BME Speech Technology and Smart Interactions Laboratory Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA
Prof. Dr. Thalia Wheatley, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College Hannover USA
Dr Bodrogi Eszter, head of NICU, Central Hospital of Northern Pest – Military Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Ilona Croy, Dept. Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Prof. Dr. Uta Sailer, Dept. Behavioural Medicine, Inst. of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Zsófia Nemoda, Dept. Molecular Biology, Semmelweis Univerysity, Budapest, Hungary
Dr Bence Kas, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Research Group, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre For Linguistics
Ongoing grants
N62909-23-1-2025 Assessing the Efficacy of Face-to-Face Communication: Towards Improving Human-Machine Communication Principal investigator: István Winkler Funding source:
ANN131305 Born2Hear: Auditory Development and Learning throughout the Human Lifespan. Principal investigator: Brigitta Tóth; Funding source: Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office
PD123790 Perceptual learning and neural plasticity in the auditory system Principal investigator: Brigitta Tóth; Funding source: Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office
K115385 Do mutually predictable responses support successful face-to-face communication? Principal investigator: István Winkler Funding source: Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office Principal investigator: Brigitta Tóth; Funding source: Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office
FK 139135 Synchronized Motion Learning in Preschool Children Principal investigator: Gábor Péter Háden; Funding source: Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office
BO/00237/19/2 Perceptual learning and neural plasticity in the auditory system Principal investigator: Brigitta Funding source: János Bolyai Research Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
BO/00523/21/2 Principal investigator: Gábor Péter Háden; Funding source: János Bolyai Research Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2019-2.1.7-ERA NET-2021-2024 Tactile sensory impairment of C-LTMR afferents in preterm children and interventional approaches. Principal investigator: Krisztina Lakatos Funding source: Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office
ÚNKP-22-5-BME-319 Principal investigator: Gábor Péter Háden; Funding source: New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development, and Innovation
